Tag Archives: Bureaucracy

Life-threatening Bureaucracy

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Roger Pocock

Quick Quotes 29.  This month we are looking at some entertaining quotes from A Thousand Mile Walk to the Gulf, by John Muir.  Muir (1838-1914) was a celebrated naturalist known as “John of the Mountains”, a key figure in the … Continue reading →

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Money Talks

Posted on November 22, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 174.  Which country is the most “free” for the people who live there, the USA or the UK?  I wouldn’t like to make a judgement on that, but in 1889 travel writer Max O’Rell expressed a very clear opinion … Continue reading →

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Stuck in Customs (in 1854)

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Roger Pocock

Snippets 157. When the American Rev. George Foxcroft Haskins visited Italy in 1854, as part of his tour of Europe, he was in reality visiting a collection of independent states. This was just a few years before the reunification of Italy … Continue reading →

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