Travel in the Age of Coronavirus
It was only a few weeks ago, but it seemed like we were living in a different age. My local grocery store had ...
Tales of Africa – Mermaids and Elephant Poo Gin
As regular readers know, I spend the month of January in South Africa escaping the worst of the northern hemis ...
Merry Christmas from Martini Mandate!
My Christmas story begins in a small town in Pennsylvania. A group of men gather at the local playhouse late ...
The Most Beautiful City in the World
Barely ten minutes after landing at Marco Polo airport in Venice, I was swinging my bag onto a wooden hulled s ...
Vegetarians – An Inconvenient Truth
Red meat is good for you. A team of respected mathematicians examined the same research that some vegetarians ...
A Night in Colombo
It’s my first visit to Colombo since the terrible Easter Sunday bombings. The nation has been here before - f ...
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