Do you want to be fashionable? Do you want to hide your savings together with those of the most powerful men on earth? Do you want somewhere exotic, with a sea view, full of sunshine? Then go to Tortola, in the Virgin Islands, and you will find
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On 20 September 1870, not only was the capital of the new Italian state conquered, but a secular theocracy, comparable to the one currently in power in Iran, which made arbitrariness and corruption the oil needed to run the apparatus of a despotic and inefficient state, was
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We often hear about global warming, the greenhouse effect, rising seas, without giving due weight to these phenomena. Living in the part of the world that depends on the whims of the fossil fuel magnates, we rejoice in recent months if man-made climate change causes longer summers
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When Napoleon Bonaparte took power in Paris, one of his first statements was to express his admiration for San Marino – a unique example of freedom and democracy in the history of Europe[1]. Something of which the inhabitants of Mount Titano are justifiably proud, but which has
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Castles and lighthouses in the sunset, pure romance: Jersey is an island off the coast of Normandy, at the exit of the English Channel, half the size of Elba Island. A wad of flat green meadows, disputed for centuries between French and English aristocrats, and then attaining
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There is a tax haven that doesn’t actually need the money from tax evasion, because it is still among the richest in the world. The United Arab Emirates have set up dozens of areas outside the law, and with these they earn impressive sums of money, but
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Years ago, if I had been asked about my ideal honeymoon, I would have said: the Seychelles Islands. Beautiful and exotic, far away and yet so close to the war raging in Europe, it is where billionaires Alexei Mordashov and Andrey Kostin hide their wealth. Mordashov is
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If you ask around, they will tell you that Madeira is one of the many tourist destinations in the Atlantic Ocean, full of sea, sun, tourists and beer. But they are wrong. Despite being in the age of global and mass tourism, Funchal and its island have
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Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has a small Renault in which she drives into town for work or family errands. She is an inconvenient journalist, covering stories of international crime hunters who, for one reason or another, stop over in her home islands – the Maltese archipelago. One
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When, after hours of flying, you get off at Curaçao International Airport (the largest and most beautiful in Central America), the first indelible impression is that of being at the seaside in August, with your senses full of the delicious smell of salt and in your eyes
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