The first things I noticed about Bruges (Brugge in Flemish) were the town’s narrow streets (on which local residents drove very quickly), centuries-old buildings that time had left untouched, and the city’s canal system.
Brugge (Brugge is its Flemish name, in French and English it is Bruges) was, in the 14th and 15th centuries, a cultural bridge between northern and southern Europe and a cloth-manufacturing town (buy lace items during …
As our taxi turned onto Pennsylvania Avenue, it became clear to me that the Willard InterContinental was indeed at the center of Washington, D.C. What I didn’t realize, until I had stepped inside its carefully restored ornate lobby, was that the hotel was central to the capital’s social and political life as well.
Founded in 1818 and named after Henry Willard, who acquired the hotel in 1847, the Willard earned its …
Boeing’s Dreamliner is on tour. The aircraft making the rounds has the designation ZA003, the third Dreamliner to come off the assembly line. It was built with the intention of being used as a test aircraft and the FAA considers it to be an experimental aircraft. Its first flight was on March 10, 2010 and it is currently travelling the world as part of Boeing’s Dream Tour, which began in …
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