About Writer Joseph P. Ritz is an award-winning journalist and a published author and playwright. In a long career he worked for six daily newspapers and one radio station. He was a correspondent for the United Press and been a stringer for newspapers as The New York Post , The New York Herald-Tribune, The Detroit Times, The Chicago Tribune and The London (England) Express.I Never Looked for My Mother and Other Regrets of a Journalist is his latest book.Read selections at his web site: http://jritz.nt/
A Fateful Trip In Lisbon Fado.?? The word means fate in Portuguese.? It’s also the name of a particular kind of haunting music heard principally in small cafes and bars in Lisbon.?? Spain has its foot stomping, fast-paced, sensual? flamenco.?? Portugal has the slow,? mournful fado sung by men and women to the accompaniment of the Spanish guitar and the Portuguese guitarra, a kind of 12-stringed mandolin.According to a...... Similar Editorial : by Sandra Mahoney. | Source : Travel Assistance
There Are No Toilets In St. Peters There Are no Toilets in St. Peter'sSome 20 million tourists are expected to descend on Rome next year. I'd like to inform them there are no toilets in St. Peter's. I learned that to my distress on my only visit to the Eternal City. The discovery began routinely enough when I began to feel one of nature's most insistent and familiar urges as I was reverently admiring the awesome interior...... Source : Private Tour Guides
