The port of Piraeus was made up of three harbours: the great commercial harbour of Kantharos (featured in An Altar of Indignities), and the smaller military harbours of Zea and Munichia. Piraeus has been an important naval and commercial hub for centuries and, in the Classical Greek and R...
Lord Melbourne remarked that St Edward’s Chapel was “more unlike a Chapel than anything [I] have ever seen; for, what was called an Altar was covered with sandwiches, bottles of wine, etc.” (At the coronation of George VI, the late Queen’s father, many peers, clearly with tidier ...
Canada’s big cities were the main stops, while exploring the country’s famous national parks along the way. This way, we had a good mixture between the two different styles of backpacking in Canada. There are many fascinating places to travel in Canada, so it can be hard to finalise yo...