LATEST NEWS

GERMANY’S BLACK FOREST HAS MORE THAN CAKE AND CUCKOO CLOCKS

I lived in Germany for four years, studied at two German universities and wrote chapters for Frommer’s guidebooks on Berlin and Munich. But during all that time I never felt compelled to visit the Black Forest in Southwest Germany. Somehow, the thought of my German-speaking grandparents puttering through the Schwarzwald (as it’s called in German)…

EWNS-Ad-Globe

RECENT POSTS

Estonia’s Soviet Flashbacks

On my Soviet Flashback tour to Estonia’s capital of Tallinn a few years back, our guide, dressed in a Soviet uniform, regaled us with stories about the former Communist regime. His grandfather was incarcerated in Patarei…

Sounds of Türkiye: Minarets and the Cats’ Meow

The eminent archeologist was explaining how the discoveries at Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Türkiye were changing the way people understood Neolithic history. But most of my attention was directed toward an affectionate tricolor tabby posing coquettishly…

Hiking Hadrian’s Wall, Virtually

I’m a purist trekker when it comes to walking long-distance designated trails. I insist they be step-by-step odysseys with no skipping of sections deemed to be of lesser interest. In the summer of 2005, I hiked…

East West News Service - David - Headshot

DISPATCHES

by David DeVoss

Editor & Senior Correspondent

Welcome to East-West News Service

Explore and learn about almost any topic regarding world travel, cultural travel, Covid travel, top travel destinations, airlines, cruise lines and hotels written by award-winning travel writers and journalists. Our travel and cultural analysis articles – and stunning travel photo essays by professional travel photographers – will empower you to learn more about USA travel, North American travel, Asia travel, Europe travel, Middle East travel and Central and South America travel.

Our goal at EWNS is to share travel writings focused on the rich history, culture & economy of a location. Writings about traveling to the world’s most beautiful places to articles with well-informed analysis spotlight our top destinations. EWNS aims to equip readers/travelers with the insights they need upon arrival at their chosen location. We invite you to explore with us.

The Latest Book Review

GOBSMACKED! THE BRITISH INVASION OF AMERICAN ENGLISH

Publisher Princeton University Press | Author Ben Yagoda | Reviewed by Nancy Wigston

When we hear “British Invasion” many of us remember the rock groups who appeared out of the UK in the 60s and 70s to dominate American Top Forty stations—the Beatles, the Stones, or the Animals. But not Ben Yagoda. This professor emeritus of English and Journalism from the University of Delaware puts quite a different spin on the term, notes Nancy Wigston. During years teaching in London, Yagoda noticed an emerging new British invasion, not as loud as rock music, but to a wordsmith like Yagoda, equally enveloping. Not only are Britishisms coming, they’re already part of the argot to varying degrees in North America, India, Southeast Asia and Oceana. The emergence of words like gobsmacked and plonk (cheap wine) as well as twee and the Scottish term kerfuffle are in common use thanks to comic Mike Myers. Read More