Posts in Tag: Adventurers Abroad
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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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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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Edirne – Turkiye’s European City
This is the first post in which I am referring to what was formally Turkey as the newly designated official name Turkiye which is pronounced Tur-key-yay making it a three syllable word from the former two. This was another of the many changes brought about by President Erdogan and for once, I’m not going to […]
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Bosphorus Cruise – Leaving Istanbul
This is my third post from the Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by veteran guide and good friend Victor Romagnoli. In the first post we explored the ancient walls of Constantinople and some interesting Istanbul neighbourhoods. In the second post we visited several mosques, the spice bazaar and then took a cooking lesson. All […]
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Unorthodox Istanbul – Via Egnatia Style
This is my first post of many from the recently completed Adventures Abroad Via Egnatia tour led by our good friend Victor Romagnoli. This was a unique tour designed by yours truly and Victor on Malta just after travel resumed post Covid. I described my expectations for this tour in this post and I can […]
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Napo Cultural Center – Exploring Amazonia
In my last post from this Adventures Abroad tour of Ecuador we flew from the Galapagos to the city of Coca via Quito and then travelled down the Napo River to the Napo Cultural Center where we will spend three days. In this post I will give the highlights of that stay which including multiple […]
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Napo River – Journey Into Amazonia
We have now reached the final leg of our Adventures Abroad Ecuador trip. In the first part we discovered the wonders of the capital city Quito and the surrounding area. We then spent a week exploring three of the islands of the Galapagos archipelago ending with Santa Cruz. Now we are about to depart on […]
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Tortoises of Isabela
This is the fourth post from the Galapagos Islands on this Ecuadorian odyssey with Adventures Abroad. In the first three we encountered many of the most famous species for which this unique archipelago is renowned such as Darwin finches, Galapagos penguins and sea lions and of course the one of a kind marine iguanas. However, […]
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Bern – Walking Switzerland’s Capital
This is my final post from a June 2022 tour of Switzerland with Adventures Abroad led by our good friend Victor Romagnoli. Although over nine months have passed since Alison and I took this trip with Victor, I can remember each day of it as if it was last week, the trip was that remarkable. […]