Wall’s Words – ‘I Am An Icon’ by Roger Wheeler
Wall’s Words – ‘I Am An Icon’ by Roger Wheeler
Back in the early part of 2004, in the bad old days of Gaydar, I was innocently surfing around when a young Irishman popped his head over the parapet and said Hi.
When Rick said this to Ilsa in Casablanca, no one realised that it would become one of the most famous lines of all time from a film. So 76 years after the movie, we still, occasionally, gaze at each other and quote ‘the’ line, these days expressed with humour rather than deep passion.
The Village People and Pet Shop Boys have been telling us to Go West for years, but today the mood in London is more Go East. Roger Wheeler and his husband Mike Go North to see what all the fuss is about.
Everyone has heard of and most people have visited Amsterdam at least once and loves its beautiful architecture, canals and wonderful life style. I used to live there and while I had visited most of the major centres in the Netherlands, I had never been to Rotterdam
The name Cyclades refers to islands forming a circle around the sacred island of Delos and according to Greek mythology, Poseidon, God of the sea, furious at the Cyclades nymphs, turned them into islands. Possibly the most famous of this group is Mykonos but there are about 20 others that are rarely visited.
