Starbucks is opening its first store in Italy. Promising to enter the birthplace of espresso “with humility and respect”. The first Starbucks is planned for Milan early in 2017, apparently in partnership with and Italian company. I just returned from Malaga, Spain. The sight of a “Costa Coffee” as a conspicuous lump on […]
A paddling pond of ideas and thoughts, observations and fresh statements. Food for thought, thought for thinking and pontificates to react to. That’s what’s coming next. The thing is, what name do we give this new feature? (And perhaps “interest” rates will become interesting, for the first time!)
I was suspicious when I heard the title. Perhaps when you name the villain in the title, you lose the will to, die another day….well, the energy of the story. You have already popped a hole in the balloon. There was not much left after that. Music (sub-par, generic suspense-thump plus chase-clashing and, almost entirely […]
First read my article explaining why the vote in the referendum held on Sunday July5, 2015 should have been yes, here The EU should not be incautious and whether it should be their responsibility or not, must help Greece “back into” being within Europe, all systems including banking. It is clear to those who can […]
Today, after years of bad government, Greece needs the influence of less corrupt, financially more successful European countries to help it out of the quagmire. If there is any risk of Greece becoming self-contained with the sole influence being self-serving (never People-serving) parliamentary candidates it has now and had for at least the last 20 […]
Listed in Roger’s “Hotels I Like” – The Pousada Santa Maria de Bouro (Bouro, Amares)
With a flourish that only the First Day Of April can bring, Infinity Hotels head of Social Meddling, based in the Infinity WorldWide Headquarters in Detroit (chosen for the extraordinary low real estate costs and office rents), Mac (the Nano) McMac – head of Misleadingly large yet apparently small projects, tells us that the first […]
