LANCASTER COUNTY is situated on the rolling plains of Pennsylvania. At first sight, it seems no different from the rest of suburban United States. The same spaced-out two-storied houses with sloping roofs, neatly laid-out streets and well-tended farmlands with capsule like granary rising skywards. But …

                        Hitherto obscure, and ruled alternately by the French and the Germans, Lorraine, a province in the northeast of France has had its fair share of identity crises throughout its chequered history. That might however, be a thing of the past. From now on, it …

In a planet shrunk by satellite and cable television, one in which armchair travel has excised the excitement out of journeys and rendered redundant, superlatives used to describe exotic destinations, there are still places that awe the visitor with their beauty and grandeur.  Grand Canyon …

My first visit to the falls was in 1999 where, for want of Canadian passport, I had to be content with viewing the falls from the US side, take the Maid of the Mist boat across to be showered by the foamy spray. The second …

Dachau renders you speechless – at the horrors that evil minds can devise. It claws your heart to see the reality of the gas chambers, the barbed wire fences, the watchtowers, the scary cages in which millions of Jews were kept in squalor and terror …

IT was one of the hottest days in Europe this summer when I joined the serpentine queue along the outer wall of the Vatican to get a peek into the priceless treasures that make up the numerous Vatican Museums, of which the Sistine Chapel is …