The first time I heard of a whirling dervish was in a song lyric from the film The Sound of Music. As a child, I wondered what in the world was meant when the nuns sang that “Maria could throw a whirling dervish out of whirl”? Much later in life when I traveled to Istanbul, Turkey I […]
Often described as the “St. Tropez of South America,” Punta del Este is the playground for the rich & famous below the equator. It’s also the subject of this week’s Snapshot. “Punta,” as it’s called for short, is a peninsula jutting from the southeast corner of Uruguay, right where the Río de la Plata meets the […]
