Europe

Like Germany, it’s fogged over by a past that you can wallow in, dark night of the human soul kind

My story with Belgium begins with Hercules Poirot. The toddling little moustached detective of very British Agatha Christie’s imagination was

Belarus, which means “White Russia,” is the blue-eyed country caught in the middle. East and West. Orthodox and Catholic. Belarus

Cable cars, incline railways, narrow-gauge railways, cog railways, funiculars, Zahnradbahn, Bergbahnen, Silvrettaseilbahn, Pöstlingbergbahn. Towering jagged mountains, ski resorts, rich green

A mountainous fairytale land of ski resorts, spas, Romanesque churches, and little tax liability, Andorra exists because Charlemagne created buffer

We call them Albanians, but that is not what they call themselves. Albania is the ancient name of a tribe