St.Valentine’s bones are in Madrid. It’s funny that so many people consider the anniversary of the beheading of a man the most romantic day of the year.
Read MoreRuins of a long lost palace and Royal Stables have been found during the construction of a tunnel in downtown Madrid.
Read MoreThe strongest blizzard in a long time has hit Madrid strong. The Spanish capital hasn’t seen this amount of snow since 1963. Even though we’re stuck at home, have no garbage collection service and we’ve got a global pandemic on the loose, there was much happiness on the streets today.
Read MoreThe ancient brothel, one of the Seven Wonders, the place where St. Paul wrote his gospel and St. John is buried. So much history is in these ruins.
Read MoreRediscovered by Europeans in the 18th century, Göreme has been inhabited for millennia. The Romans used it as a necropolis and it was a very important Christian location in the early Middle Ages. The small city is just one example of many towns carved into fairy chimney rock formations in Cappadocia, central Turkey.
Read MoreIf you’re even in South Korea, one place you have to go is to the Jagalchi Market 자갈치시장, in Busan. It’s the largest seafood market in the country. Not only you get to buy seafood as fresh as it possibly can be, you can eat it right there. You choose the fish and they prepare it for you in the most authentic Korean style.
Read MoreMadrid is home to hundreds, maybe thousands, of historical locations. One of the is Sobrino de Botín, the oldest restaurant in the world, certified by the Guiness Book of World Records. I know there are several other restaurants that claim to be the olders, dating back to even thousands of years. So what’s the differences? This one can prove that since 1725 it never closed its doors, never changed places and never changed its name.
Read MoreIn the Vieux Lyon, the old part of the French town, resides the second largest Renaissance area in all of Europe, smaller only than Venice. Right there, next to the river Saône, is the Cathédrale Saint-Jean-Baptiste de Lyon, and it’s amazing astronomical clock.
Read MoreSeptember 2018.
It has been one week since we have arrived to the near-east lands. We are currently in The Valley of Göreme in the central land of Cappadocia. Continuing Dr. Samuel Ferguson’s five week African journey of 1863, we are exploring caves and homes of the ancient people that here lived. In this adventure we will start with an aerial observation of the terrain using the same means of transport as Dr. Ferguson: the balloon. But we’ve learned to use oxygen instead of hydrogen. The Hindenburg taught us.
Read MoreThe center of tourist attractions in Istanbul is Sultanahmet Square. On one side you have Hagia Sophia, on the other the Blue Mosque, and right beside that the Hippodrome, all a hop and skip away from the majestic Topkapi Palace. What you don’t see - and I walked past it on my first visit to Istanbul - is that right next to Hagia Sophia: an underground forest of Roman columns called Basilica Cisterna.
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