Category: History
In DeLand, Florida, you walk down the main street in town and forget a word like “urban blight” even exists. Like the mythical Willoughby in the classic Twilight Zone …
Vidin, Bulgaria is, by all respects, a sleepy town. If you’ve never heard of Vidin, you’re in good company—before I’d stepped off the boat and onto its soil, I …
Stars. Wherever you travel they are a constant in your night sky — perhaps hard to see because city lights (or house lights, or highway lights) are bright, perhaps …
Do you believe in the curative properties of water? For nearly 3000 years, travelers have been arriving in the town of Bath, England to immerse themselves in the thermal …
Built into the living rock, set beside spectacular gorges, under the shadow Mount Ararat and on the shore of azure blue Lake Sevan, Armenia is home to some of the …
A place like Kaunas might not be on your immediate itinerary for travel. Many people don’t even know where Lithuania or the other Baltic countries are (north of Poland …
“It must be amazing to come to work every day and be surrounded by such beautiful things,” I said to one of the security guards at the Morse …
The Rosslyn Chapel is probably most famous for its appearance in The Da Vinci Code. However, Dan Brown took some liberties when he said the chapel was home to …
It’s only about an hour heading south down the Minnesota Great River Road from Minneapolis/St Paul; the town with the name that makes you think of classic American-made leather …
Dublin is a fine place to visit and explore. On any trip to Ireland, though, you owe it to yourself to see a bit of the rest of the …
The stairs from Tito’s neo-classical villa, now a five star spa hotel, led down to the lake. Down by the banks, sturdy boats resembling gondolas, topped with blue canopies …
It was in 1992 when Barcelona came on the map as a real tourist destination. Before that, it didn’t even have a beach! It has since grown into one …