Category: Life on a Roll

  • Life on a Roll: In Bloom

    —

    by

    Ilana Kotliar

  • Life on a Roll: The Cloisters Museum

    —

    by

    Bernie Langs The Met Cloisters, an offshoot of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, is located in Fort Tryon Park in Washington Heights. The museum boasts a first rate collection of European medieval art and architecture as well as outdoor garden spaces with fabulous views of the Hudson River and beyond. The Cloisters is rarely crowded…

  • Life on a Roll: Kokopelli

    —

    by

    Elodie Pauwels https://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com/ The least we can say is that 2020 has been quite hectic…for better or worse! A little silhouette has been watching over me all this time: a metallic blue-painted Kokopelli, a present a friend brought me back from a trip somewhere in the Americas. Let’s listen to Kokopelli’s stories and music, and…

  • Life on a Roll: An American in Tehran

    —

    by

    Nan Pang Tehran was the city where my two-week long journey in Iran started and ended. The modern day capital city left a different impression on me on my first day versus my last day, since the year I visited Iran also marked its forty-year anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the subsequent U.S.…

  • Life on a Roll

    —

    by

    Inside Iran: the Columns of Persepolis Nan Pang Persepolis, or “the city of the Persians,” is located northeast of Shiraz—just about one hour by car. As the history of the site stretches back almost 2,500 years, Persepolis had embodied the magnificent wealth and prosperity of the Achaemenid Empire and is considered one of the most…

  • Life on a Roll

    —

    by

    Inside Iran: Holy City of Yazd Nan Pang After spending a night in the Varzaneh Desert in Iran with Hamidreza and his father, I was ready to head east. Because Varzaneh is a small desert town and does not have a bus stop, I decided to hitchhike from the nearest highway. It must have been…

  • Life on a roll

    —

    by

    Winter in Scotland Bernie Langs Traveling off-season in Scotland allows for quieter access to tourist sites, such as castles and palaces, that are usually crowded and overrun in spring and summer (although some shutter for winter months but allow for strolls on their grounds). In December 2019, my wife and I lucked out with unusually…

  • Life on a Roll

    —

    by

    One day the city will bloom again Yuriria Vazquez  Magnolias and cherry blossoms in Central Park.  

  • Life on a Roll

    —

    by

    “Carrelet” fishing in the Aiguillon Bay, France Elodie Pauwels https://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com/ You might be surprised by these strange little wooden shacks on stilts overhanging the ocean in some places on the French Atlantic coast, like in Esnandes in the Aiguillon Bay. These huts are called “carrelets,” named after the square nets used to fish (“carré” meaning…

  • Life on a Roll

    —

    by

    New York City, Angoulême and the Comics Festival Elodie Pauwels https://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com/ Did you know there is a close relationship between New York City, U.S.A. and Angoulême, France? When Giovanni da Verrazzano discovered the New York Bay area, he named it New Angoulême after French King Francis I, Count of Angoulême. Angoulême, city of festivals, is mainly…