From February 14th until March 9th New Zealand will host the competition for the longest contested trophy in international sports. Almost one and a half centuries of history preface the fight for sailing’s most prestigious award, the America’s Cup. In 1995, a New Zealand sailing team swiped the America’s Cup from the United States in [...]
Archive for April, 2008
New Zealand gears up for the Americas Cup
April 17, 2008Basques – An introduction
April 14, 2008European powers have come and gone, nation-states have risen and crumbled, but through it all have remained the Basques, considered by many the indigenous race of the Iberian peninsula. “Before God was God and rocks were rocks,” it is said, “the Basques were Basque.” Today, this proud group with mysterious origins inhabits the western Pyrenees [...]
The accessible side of South America
April 1, 2008Ever wonder why you see so many Australians bumming around Southeast Asia? Simple. It’s cheap and it’s close. So our pick for travel hotspot #1 of the next 1000 years is cheap and close to the millions of Americans who have more figures in their income than stamps in their passport. And we don’t know [...]
