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Pella – Birthplace of Alexander the Great
After three fabulous days in Thessaloniki the Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by Victor Romagnoli is moving into the heartland of ancient Macedonia. Alexander the Great and to a lesser extent, his father Philip II of Macedon, are two of the most interesting and enduring characters of the ancient world. How this one young […]
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Jamon Iberico – The Best in the World
In my last post from the Extremadura we revelled in the Roman past at Merida including eating a meal with the same ingredients as would have been used 2,000 years ago. On this visit to the Extremadura I was fortunate enough to get a taste of the many great foods that originate here, none more […]
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Tam Coc – Exploring Vietnam’s Red River Delta
This is my third post from the 2023 visit to Vietnam with Adventures Abroad. In the second post we spent several days exploring Hanoi, a city of over five million, and learned how to maneuver through its bustling streets without getting hit by one of the ubiquitous motorcycles that keep a tourist on their toes […]
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Memphis – A Quick Visit
For the 2023 holiday season, Alison and I opted to hope in the car and drive down to Alabama to play some golf on the RTJ Golf Trail. It would be a quick trip down with one exception, we wanted to spend a few days in Memphis. I had been there years ago on our […]
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Thessaloniki – Exploring Greece’s Second City
In the second last post from the Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by esteemed guide Victor Romagnoli we visited the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Philippi where St. Paul preached and was briefly imprisoned. In this post we’ll follow St. Paul to his next stop, the ancient city of Thessaloniki. It is a place […]
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Merida – Spain’s Roman City
In my first post from the Extremadura I gave seven reasons for visiting this most untouristy and interesting area of Spain. In this post I’ll focus in on one of those reasons, the Roman legacy of the city of Merida and its surrounding area. Whether its theatres, amphitheatres, hippodromes, Roman baths, villas, bridges, aqueducts, temples […]
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Hanoi – Touring Vietnam’s Capital City
In my first post from Vietnam I gave a general overview of the country and fourteen highlights of the tour with Adventures Abroad. In this post I’ll start getting into specifics starting with the capital of Vietnam, Hanoi which is where our tour began after all but one of us on the Laos tour arrived […]
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Mount Athos – Cruising by the Monasteries
This is post #4 from the Greece portion of last spring’s Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by the Canadian who knows more about Greece than most Greeks, our friend Victor Romagnoli. In the last post we visited the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Philippi and in this one we’ll see another. When Victor and […]
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Extremadura – Seven Great Reasons to Visit
This is the first of several posts from my recent trip to the Extremadura area of western Spain, a place that is not on most tourist’s radar, but really should be. Comprised of the two provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres the Extremadura has just over a million people living in area about the size of […]
From the road
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April 20th, 2023
I’ve had a bad case of writer’s block since getting back from Southeast Asia, but I did finish this post on the fan… https://t.co/HoJjP4jeha
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April 12th, 2023
One of the main reasons to visit the Galapagos is to see the giant tortoises. This latest post explains where you c… https://t.co/mQ8PWha8j3
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April 11th, 2023
Spring is very late this year so it’s nice to see the crocuses finally show up. https://t.co/7HD6wvsEJ6
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April 9th, 2023
Sunday morning is a good time to reflect back on another Sunday in Reading, England which I wrote about here:… https://t.co/EJ4Is2NSqz