Here are the pictures of our jolly group. We all had an enthusiastic discussion about (guess what?) languages in the Tucholsky Restauration. Just to add names to the faces in the group photo, clockwise from the left. Judith, Hendrik, Simon, Matthe…

I am not finally in a place where I have decent internet access. I will shortly report in detail about my Czech experience. Meanwhile here is a nice video of our meet up at the end of the first full day in Prague. The video was taken by the famous…

I am in Montreal for my 50th high-school reunion but in the fall 50 years ago I entered McGill. I only stayed two years before going to France. Today it is raining. Tonight I fly to Prague.

In St. Petersburg you are taken back a century or two or three. The city was built because a Tsar, Peter the Great, wanted it to be built. It was Russia’s stake on the Baltic, window on the West, and bulwark against the forces of Northern Europe, …