Many travel articles lament that someresort areas of Mallorca(namely Magaluf on the southwest coast) are overbuilt and overrun with hordes of sunburned tourists, interested only in party beaches, booze and wild nightclubs. As we weren’t interested in these types of Mallorca tourist attractions a...
tIt was the first cathedral in Girona and remained the only one until the 10th century. Beyond the impressive architecture, the cathedral is home to historic works of art, including a 14th-century sculpture of Christ, as well as Christian and non-Christian sarcophagi that date back to the fou...
Crete is one of the largest islands in the Mediterranean, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus and Corsica. Considering that it’s 26 times the size ofMalta, it could be a country in itself. In terms of landscape, Crete is really varied. There are long sandy beaches with crystal clear water, ...
The story goes that the founder Eulalio Ferrer Rodríguez traded a pack of cigarettes for a copy ofDon Quixote de la Manchawhile he was held prisoner in Spain during the civil war. The book was of such value to Eulalio that he later began collecting anything to do with Don Quixote and/or...
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Sometimes it's fun to watch a collection of disparate storylines come together to form one cohesive narrative, but that's not what happened in Season 4 of Stranger Things. COVID delays definitely had a lot to do with the fractured storylines, but to never have ...
Once the main gate into the Herceg Novi Stari Grad, the Clock Tower is a symbol of the city. The defensive tower was built in 1667 under Turkish rule. The stairs that lead up to the clock tower are a popular spot to stop for photo ops. However, as you walk below and through it, ...
El Call, Barcelona’s old Jewish Quarter, is one of the most beautiful areas of the Gothic Quarter. These are some of the narrowest streets in all of Barcelona, and they are also filled with a dark history that dates back to medieval times. The street ofSant Domenec del Callis at the...
35 Things to do in Rome, Italy #1 Trevi Fountain Contribution by Anuradha fromCountry Hopping Couple If there is any fountain that can be named as the most beautiful, that would be Trevi Fountain. Located in the Trevi district in Rome, Trevi Fountain stands 86 feet high 161 ft wide, makin...
The philosophies and ideologies themselves certainly left an impression on me. But the rigor of the distillation process, the exercise of refinement, that's where the real learning happened. It was an incredible, heady skill to master. Through the years, I've used it again and again - the ...