Category: History
Kelpies: unless you live in Scotland, that may not be a word you know. It is much better known since Scottish Canals chose The Kelpies as the name for …
Since 2015, the popular Italian city of Florence has been getting more than nine million visitors per year. So what you don’t see in those lovely selfies on Instagram …
Printing. People are able to create all sorts of documents, choose fonts, make layout on computers, and share these quickly — across the world if they so choose. In …
Many people don’t know that the densely-populated, often traffic-clogged Washington, D.C. metropolitan area boasts a surprisingly large network of hiking and biking trails. In addition to trails that connect …
The Glasgow Boys: if you learn about their work and spend time with it, they will teach you things about Scotland, about history, and about creativity. The Glasgow Boys …
Verona probably isn’t the first town you’ll think of when planning your vacation to Italy, unless you’re a big fan of Shakespeare. While I haven’t made it further south …
They could be museums or galleries or grand homes opened for public tours. Happily for travelers, they’re hotels. But that’s not what makes Spain’s paradores special. The eclectic collection …
Remember when all you cared about was how much fun you were going to have that day? You can relive those days again at the Strong Museum of Play …
What gives an airport personality? What sorts of items there can immediately connect an arriving traveler with the town or city? I’m going to start a series of occasional blog …
Preservation: that word sometimes carries with it ideas of being stuffy, of putting things up on a shelf, of making no changes. That could not be further from the …
Vang Vieng might sound like a scary pooch from Harry Potter, but it’s actually a backpacker’s paradise in southern Laos. Well, for some it’s a paradise. For others, it …
Memphis, Tennessee Fountain City, Indiana Warsaw, Poland Derry, Northern Ireland Travel has a way of putting a human face on history, and on justice. History can be a good …