Tag: history travel
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 …
Kerry Dexter
December 27, 2021
Africa travel, City or urban travel, encounters, Europe travel, History, Kerry projects, Literary Travel, Travel, travel books, US travel
This time of year and with current travel situation, it could be time to add to your travel bookshelf. Of course, travel through imagination and reading are always good …
Standing at the Pynx, one of the major sites where democracy was founded, I felt opposing emotions of appreciation and dread. Countries that pride themselves on being ruled for …
If you think “snowbirding for the winter” is a recent phenomenon, there’s a place you should check out in Florida: the Edison & Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers. …
There’s no shortage of strange, offbeat things to see throughout the state of Florida and Tampa Bay plays its part. This land of pirates, then cigar rollers, then wildly …
Culloden. It’s a place in the northeastern part of Scotland, about eight miles from Inverness. Unless you have connections to Scotland, until rather recently you may not have heard …
When was the last time you received a letter through the mail, one with a stamp and a postmark? It may have been a while, given computerized postage and …
“Next to that island over there is where the Greeks fought the Persians in a great battle, during the Peloponnesian War,” said Cristos as we drove toward our first …
It wasn’t such an easy journey, or such a safe one, back in the seventeenth and eighteenth century when Spanish galleons sailed the waters out from the mother country …