Category: The Ganza Blog

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson With low-cost housing, inexpensive healthcare, affordable grocery bills, round-year summer, magnificent beaches, cheap skilled labor force, a well-educated population, a basketful of ready-brides, Thailand has
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“Brazil’s most famous celebration, Carnaval, storms through the country’s cities and towns with hip-shaking samba and frevo, dazzling costumes and parties that last until sun up…” Lonely Planet. I have been to Brazil for at least two dozen times. In the wake
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“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.” Winston Churchill. Russia is not a snowy warrying backward Antarctic Viking or Ottoman landscape. It is a huge subcontinent occupying 1/8 of all the land
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It is early 10:00 AM in America, it is already 3:00 AM tomorrow, in New Zealand, 17 time zones away. Once again, I traveled to another place, a faraway palace. I spoke to people who use “s” where we use “z”, but
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“I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny. I say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.” George Wallace, 45th governor of Alabama. South African Airways, SA203, took off at 9:00 PM, on Monday. The
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I returned to Dubai, last week. It took me that long to overcome jet lag, myalgia, arthralgia, uncontrolled elation, in order to put some orders in my thoughts. “See Paris and die” is not obsolete, but it is clear that a better
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Voila! We are back from Paris and the French Riviera. Safe and whole! “Veni, vidi, vici.” (I came, I saw, I vanquished) wrote Julius Caesar after the Battle of Zela. So we did. ………………….. Yes, our travel club (Travel-O-Ganza, Inc) went to France, for the EuroCup.
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“Let China sleep, for when she wakes up she will shake the world” (Napoleon Bonaparte) Part of a group of almost 70, I visited Beijing, the capital of the People Republic of China, one of the four remaining communist countries in the
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On Monday, March 21, Barack Obama, with 800 (yes, 800) investors, legislators and administrators in tow, will take off to Havana Cuba.  This presidential visit to the Caribbean island will, for all practical purposes, end the isolation of the Republic Cuba instituted by the US in 1960. 
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American Airlines flight #67 took off on time. It was airborne a few minutes after 10:00 AM on its way back to America. Flying against the Earth rotation speed of 1040 mph, the aircraft will take longer to reach JFK, prolonging the return trip by one and half hour,
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