Posts in Tag: Museums
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The Ancient Orient Museum of Istanbul
This is my second post from a visit to the Istanbul Archaeological Museums, one of the great museums of the world. In the first post Alison and I visited the Archaeological Museum and spent most of the time admiring the incredible collection of sarcophagi on display there. In this post we’ll stroll the grounds and […]
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Istanbul Archaeological Museums – Part I
This is my third post from a tour of western Turkey that Alison and I went on in October of 2021 before the Delta and Omicron variants of Covid effectively shut down the travel industry. In the first post I explained the reasons that we chose Turkey and why we went with our preferred tour […]
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Malta National Museum of Archaeology
This is my third post from Malta’s capital city and World Heritage Site, Valletta. Alison and I are in Malta with a small Adventures Abroad group led by the indomitable Victor Romagnoli. We began our exploration of Valletta on foot with local guide Chantelle Shaw and Victor by visiting a number of the city’s 320 […]
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Grand Manan Museum – A Small Town Treasure
This is my third post from the wonderful island of Grand Manan, one of New Brunswick’s Fundy Isles. In the first post I went sea kayaking in the fog and loved it. In the second, Alison and I went whale watching with Sea Watch and although we didn’t spot any whales, saw more than enough […]
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Pier 21 – Canada’s Amazing Immigration Museum
My last post on this website was from Georges Island National Historic Site from where I took this post’s featured image of the waterside of Pier 21, Canada’s Museum of Immigration; the same view that nearly one million immigrants who passed through its doors between 1928 and 1971 had as their ships berthed in Halifax. […]
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Eastern PEI – Some Random Ramblings
This is my fourth post from a recent visit to Prince Edward Island and will feature a number of places Alison and I visited between and after golf games at the two Brudenell River courses. We started the day with a 7:00 tee time at Dundarave which I described in this hole-by-hole post. Finishing just […]
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North Cape Coastal Drive PEI
In late February, 2020 Alison and I returned from a trip to Central America just as the entire world was about to change in ways that were unimaginable at the beginning of the year. As travel writers our plans for a trip to Australia, New Zealand and Tahiti in April and May died in the […]
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Albuquerque Museum – Best in New Mexico
In a previous post I wrote about how Alison and were blown away by the El Paso Museum of Art during out stay in the city for the 2019 SATW conference. Frankly, we had not been prepared for such a fine display of art in what is an unfairly overlooked city by tourists. After the […]
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El Paso – Be Prepared to be Surprised
When El Paso was announced as the 2019 SATW conference site in Barbados in 2018, I know a few eyebrows went up. After all this organization has been hosted by New Zealand, China, Iceland, Germany, Mexico, Bermuda and a number of much bigger American cities to name only a few. Was El Paso, at less […]