Elio Zagato's masterpiece, designed with Ercole Spada, was the Aston Martin DB4GTZ, the sexiest car ever created.
October 2009 Archives
At first sight, it seems like a bad joke. Northwest Airlines flight 188 from San Diego to Minneapolis St-Paul forgets to land at St-Paul. In fact, the Airbus A320 flies on for another hour and twenty minutes, no less, before turning around.
Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, serial seducer of comely young maidens, lifetime misogynist, instructed the Italian tourist authorities to launch a campaign extolling the attractions of Italy.
After Ireland, we drove through Austria, Slovakia and Hungary and everywhere the sentiment was the same: Europeans and the American people were one. Within a year, that atmosphere had dissipated.
With 18 percent unemployment, Spain's economy is the sickest in the western world. The two most stricken sectors of the economy are tourism and construction, and they are linked.
I celebrate the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama, who- it seems to me-was, long before he became President, a true receptor of other people’s views and a true observer of other people’s lives and struggles. Travel is a great educator. And our President is an educated traveler.
Have you heard the one about the Four Yorkshiremen? If you are a fan of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, you will know this as one of the classic sketches. It could have been the Four Scotsmen, the Four Welshmen or the Four Irishmen, but somehow those regions were too associated with ancient vaudeville routines. Yorkshire made a good target.
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