Unless you hail from the United States and are of a certain age, the name of Korla Pandit may not be familiar to you. It certainly wasn’t to me. However, despite the fact that I live on the wrong side of the Atlantic Ocean to have been conversant with the career of the talented musician,… Read More

The beautiful Mediterranean island of Cyprus has a long and chequered history. Of great strategic importance, located as it is, just a stones-throw from the Middle East, it has been fought over for centuries and has at various times been under the occupation of Greece, Persia, Rome, England, Venice, the Ottoman Empire (Turkey), and the… Read More

The Cecil Hotel was opened in 1927 on Main Street, Los Angeles, California, in the United States. It has 600 rooms and originally targeted the business traveller and tourist market. However, despite being regarded as a fashionable destination for a number of decades, it had, by the end of the 1940s, been overshadowed by more… Read More