Posts in Category: Europe
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Mount Pelion – Land of the Centaurs
This is the final post from Alison’s and my trip to Greece in 2023. We spent most of it on an Adventures Abroad trip from Istanbul to Ioaninna in northern Greece following the course of the ancient Roman road, Via Egnatia led by our friend Victor Romagnoli. After that we flew to Athens for a […]
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Seville – Highlights from a Fabulous City
The 2024 SATW Canadian Chapter meeting was held in Seville, Spain and provided me with the opportunity to visit this wonderful country twice in six months. I had been in Caceres and other areas in the Extremadura in November, 2023 for the SATW Freelance Council meeting and came away with a fond appreciation of that […]
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Cyprus with Adventures Abroad
Cyprus is not a destination that is on the radar of most North American tourists, yet it’s wildly popular with Europeans, especially Brits and Germans. While they are primarily attracted by the beaches, great weather and the fantastic Cypriot cuisine there is much more to do in Cyprus than just laze in the sun on […]
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The Acropolis of Athens Without the Crowds
My last post from Greece featured the final days of the Via Egnatia tour led by our good friend Victor Romagnoli for Adventures Abroad. However, it was not the end of trip for Alison and me. We are going to spend a few days in Athens and then at Victor’s suggestion, head to the Pelion […]
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La Rabida Monastery & the Columbian Routes
The spring 2024 meeting of the Canadian chapter of SATW (Society of American Travel Writers) took place in Seville, Spain and included a number of very interesting post-trips, none more so than to the province of Huelva. Here I learned for the first time of a building that might be the most important in the […]
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Epirus – Zagoria, Vikos Gorge & Ioannina
This is my fifteenth and final post from the spring 2023 Via Egnatia Tour sponsored by Adventures Abroad and led by our friend and fellow birding enthusiast, Victor Romagnoli. It has been a wild ride from Istanbul to Ioannina with many amazing sites along the way that are seldom offered on most tours of Greece and […]
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Meteora and Kastoria – Essentials in Northern Greece
The Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour is making its way westward in northern Greece as we leave behind Mount Olympus and the world of Alexander the Great and the ancient Macedonians. Our destination today is the fabled fur trading city of Kastoria, but on the way we will re-enter the world of the Byzantines once […]
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Dion & Mount Olympus
In the last three posts from the 2023 Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by Victor Romagnoli we have been ensconced in the world of the ancient Macedonians. First in the city of Thessaloniki, then Pella, birthplace of Alexander the Great and thirdly Vergina where we were dazzled by the wealth found in the tomb […]
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Monfrague – Birding in Extremadura
This is my fifth and final post from the 2023 SATW trip to the Extremadura region of Spain. In the first post I highlighted the many reasons to visit this off the beaten track destination in western Europe. In the second I focused on the amazing Roman ruins in and around the city of Merida. […]