Cruise the Med of Ancient Mariners. Although my wife and I have travelled a good deal over the years, the “cruise experience” had eluded us. No particular reason — we’d heard plenty, good and bad, about luxury ship … Continue reading →
Epidauros, Home of Hippocrates. The Corinth Canal. The Peloponnese peninsula is literally chopped off from mainland Greece by the isthmus bisection of the Corinth Canal that connects the Ionian and Myleon Seaslike a pencil transit on a blueprint. In the 19th … Continue reading →
The First Olympics Were in 779 B.C. Oak and wild olive were sacred in the ancient Altis sanctuary of Olympia. The ancient Olympic Games in Olympia, Greece were a spectacle of sports, sacrifice, statuary, and suffering in a station sanctuary … Continue reading →
Venezia – Venice, capital of the Veneto region. Venice is known as ‘The City of Bridges” with over 100 of them crossing the famous canals. The main transport is by boat or by foot because cars are banned … Continue reading →
American Tulip Capital. This festival has no outdoor bands, no costumed folks, and no dancing—unless you count the gazillion tulips waving in the fields. This is Washington State’s Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Put your “Two Lips” … Continue reading →
Local Farmers Create A Game Park. A hundred years ago there were only 50 white rhinos in all of South Africa, but because of conservation efforts, there are now over 20,000, but only about 4,500 black rhinos, down … Continue reading →
A Traditional Zulu Sacred Mountain. From the N2 Highway Ghost Mountain looks like an angular baboon’s molar knocked out of kilter needing to be extracted from the earthly maw. It is a tooth of time that has … Continue reading →
Verano Mean Summer in Spanish. “Verano”, the Spanish word for “summer”, aptly describes this secluded hideaway, for here it’s summer year-round. Saltillos, cobblestone and lush foliage. This is a fully-staffed private estate in Conchas … Continue reading →
Discover Spain by Road and Sea. My only regret after several months in Spain was not having discovered it sooner. Franco in 1969. Maybe that avoidance stemmed from a prior trip to Spain and … Continue reading →
Click the Leopard for Great Safaris. Abu Simbel Temples: Abu Simbel is Pharaoh Ramses II’s enduring autograph in stone. Abu Simbel Is a bookmark to power and history, full of life, full of voices from the distant yesterday, forever shining in … Continue reading →
Luxury all-inclusives in the Caribbean. Visited mostly by droves of love-struck honeymooners and cruise ship passengers, the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia is the most developed in the region. Luxurious beachfront all-inclusive resorts are the main draw … Continue reading →
Antigua, Spanish for Ancient. A Hobi Cat ready for action at Jolly Beach, Antigua. When I say blue water, what shade of blue do you think of? Chances are, you may think of blueberries, the … Continue reading →
Tempting Tennis at Shawo Mountain. Shadow Mountain is famous for Tennis. Greater Palm Springshas become the tennis capital of the world. Scores of resorts, private clubs, and condo complexes offer courts on a variety of surfaces (hard, … Continue reading →
Burwash Tennis Clinics and Marriott Cuisine. Lawn tennis at J.W. Marriott Desert Springs. I find myself grinning a good deal — even whistling a happy tune — as I ramble about J.W. Marriott’s Desert Springs Resort … Continue reading →
Villa Cafaggiolo, a Medici residence in the Mugello countryside. Portrait by Jacopo Pontormo. This autumn Florence and vicinity is honoring the ancient ties between the Mugello, that splendid pastoral landscape north of the city, and the … Continue reading →
Get On A Great Safari at www.GreatSafaris.com Ramses II ruled Upper and Lower Egypt. Abu Simbel is Pharaoh Ramses II’s enduring autograph in stone. Abu Simbel Is a bookmark to power and history, full of life, … Continue reading →
Get On A Great Safari at www.GreatSafaris.com Ramses II ruled Egypt for 67 years. The distance from the port of Alexandria to the Ramses II temples at Abu Simbel in the Nubian Desert is calculated at … Continue reading →
The Greek King who launched a 1000 ships. Agamemnon’s Palace and courtyard. In the Iliad, Homer wrote about many historical Greek characters that actually lived — in Mycenae, Sparta, and other villages of the Peloponnese, and … Continue reading →
Is this Homer’s Troy? or some scholars there is speculation about the veracity of the Trojan War, even after the excavation of the Troja site (Turkish for Troy) by the German adventurer, Heinrich Schliemann in the 19th century. The … Continue reading →
I am on a bar and lounge and fine dining adventure, but I am early for my dinner reservation at FIX Restaurant and Bar at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas, so I saunter across the casino floor … Continue reading →
