Too many non-European commentaries follow a beguilingly simple logical path, which goes like this: the single currency is vulnerable in a crisis because it was created without a single government above it to control tax, spending and transfers between the euro zone's richer and poorer economies.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

The villages we'd be stopping in would all be 7 to 10 miles apart on a path that follows a steady gradient up a single valley, a positively leisurely prospect compared with the up-and-down slogs from one valley to the next that characterize many Himalayan trails.

WSJ: Trekking the Har Ki Doon Trail in India's Himalayas