Forget knitting and false teeth, the new generation of grandparents are out and about and living it up. A few years ago, retired American tourists started displaying bumper stickers that declared, “We’re spending the kids’ inheritance”. And what started as a joke has become a reality. With better health, longer life expectancy, more plans for [...]
You’ve needed a storage shed for quite some time and you have a long weekend coming up. This long weekend is going to present you with the best opportunity to embark on your shed project and clear some of the clutter in your life. As a matter of fact, it can make a great project [...]
The Aland archipelago, also called Finnish Ahvenanmaa locally, is situated between Finland and Sweden in the south end of the Gulf of Bothnia. It is an autonomous Swedish-speaking province of Finland which has its own administration, flag and stamps. Aland Sea lies in the west of the Aland Islands, which extends between the island and [...]
Angola in the earlier days was a Portuguese colony and has substantial natural resources, most of it being petroleum and diamonds. It is on the Atlantic coast of south western Africa. Small but oil-rich Northern Province Cabinda is alienated from the other parts of the country by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the [...]
Armenia is a small non-coastal country bordered by Europe and Asia, between the Black and Caspian Seas. Earlier it was a part of former Soviet Union. You can say that it is now just about a fraction of the ancient Armenia. It has greatly diminished in size and also in significance as to what it [...]