Is a Troll Sleeping Beneath Bergen’s Creaking Warehouses?
By Richard Varr It doesn’t take long for a sense of history to overwhelm you…
A former newspaper and TV news reporter, Richard Varr started his journalism career at a suburban Boston daily newspaper after earning an MA in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University. He later worked as a television reporter and anchor in Upstate New York and in Austin and Houston, Texas. After 18 years in hard news, he moved on to telling stories from around the world as a Houston-based freelance travel writer and member of the Society of American Travel Writers. In addition to writing the Dorling Kindersley Eyewitness Travel Guide to Philadelphia, he contributed to the Toronto Star, London Telegraph, Miami Herald and Dallas Morning News before coming to the East-West News Service.
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Capt. James Cook’s Legacy of Exploration on display in Australia
By Richard Varr I’m crawling on my hands and knees in the cramped and low-ceiling…
When in Mérida, Do as the Romans Did
By Richard Varr Corinthian columns stand double-stacked across a wide Roman stage, and although…
Brewing in Bogotá: Colombia’s Specialty Brands Defining Coffee’s Fourth Wave
By Richard Varr Boiling water shoots through a glass flask and into an upper chamber…