Tag: history
Beacon Hill in Boston: history and present day both walk with you in the streets of the north slope of this neighborhood which lies near the Massachusetts State House …
If you like to dive deep into history and culture as a part of the travel experience, then there is program that may be perfect for you – the …
No, it is not all flat cornfields. Not in this part of Nebraska. I drove northward from Colorado via the wide-open vistas of the Pawnee National Grassland, when suddenly …
Before Stonehenge, and before the first pyramid was build in Egypt, humans were building Louisiana mounds and living in what is now the U.S. Deep South. Before the Parthenon …
Most visitors to Scotland want to visit Edinburgh Castle, but I personally think Stirling Castle is the better choice. It’s less than an hour away from Edinburgh and probably …
Journeys: they make great stories share with friends, with family, with the children in your life. Learn about three books which offer stories of places and journeys which will …
Before I visited Kalamata, Greece this year, I knew close to nothing about the city beyond its namesake olives. I had no idea that it had its own nice …
In Secret Britain, you are invited to consider connections between past and present. It’s a book not so much about the how and when of archaeology, though. It is …
After a busy day out in Buffalo, a new-to-me city in western New York State, it was time to find a nice place to finish the day and maybe …
The city of Houston is a hard place to appreciate. It sprawls over 600 miles around southeast Texas, the weather is usually hot and muggy, and the lack of …
The guide does give you a warning before doing it, and an explanation of why they want you to experience the absolute silence and darkness of The Cistern. Still, …
Strangford Lough. It is a sea lough, perhaps formed as glaciers retreated from what is now Northern Ireland at the end of the Ice Age. Another story of Stranford …