The allures of the tiny Central American country of El Salvador are still not all that well known beyond its borders. Furthermore, local tourism, even though ramping up infrastructure, has been...
30/11/2015
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Month: November 2015
The mighty Roman Empire started gradually invading and turning the Iberian Peninsula into Hispania in the first two centuries BC a pax romana that would last till the 4th century...
27/11/2015
Abandoned towns and villages can be found all over the world. But there’s something especially haunting and charismatic both about the remnants of settlements that photogenically preserve the look...
26/11/2015
A fortunate few cities have the luxury of being identified with an internationally famous artist who inevitably ends up being an ambassador of sorts for his or her home town. Colombia's...
24/11/2015
The southernmost of the Cycladic Islands of the Aegean Sea – perhaps best known as the source of the Louvre’s immortal Venus de Milo – Milos’ most authentic and...
23/11/2015
How many cities in Sweden – or for that matter, anywhere in Scandinavia – can you name outside the country's capital? For many of us, the answer is few...
19/11/2015
The world of mixed drinks is always a rather, er, liquid one, you could say - notoriously subject to trends as is much else in the area of food...
18/11/2015
There is nothing quite like the massive Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro – the over-the-top extravagance; hundreds of thousands of raucous Brazilians thronging the streets and the Sambodrome; and...
17/11/2015
The north of Spain is known for its green, mystical lands, imbued with its ancestral past and singularly lovely landscapes - especially along its coast. There's no better example than...
16/11/2015
In my various travels, few times have I returned as impressed by a destination as from Chile, leaving me determined to go back again and again. Because this is...
13/11/2015
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