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The Cool Travel Guide to: getting the most out of archaeological sites (part 2) 2008-03-20 01:30:01 Here are some more ideas as to how to make the most of your ambles about archaeological sites:
4. Use your imagination. I mean, really use it. Don’t just look at those old stones and see a building,...
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Notes on Observations and Conversations Overheard at Ancient Knossos: part 1 2008-03-19 10:42:14 Visit to Knossos, most popular archaeological site in Crete: ancient Minoan palace (AKA Minos) settlement built around 2000BC. Neolithic remains suggest area settled as far back as 6000BC!...
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Notes on Observations and Conversations Overheard at Ancient Knossos: part 2 2008-03-19 10:26:30 Knossos – well-restored rooms. Spacious. Light-filled. Vast storage jars called: pithoi. Tick. Three 20-something backpackers read sign outside rooms. Sign says: MAGAZIN. Girl says: “I didn’t know...
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Scenic touring and tips on appreciating ‘the picturesque’ nature of travel 2008-03-18 09:13:30 Romantic travel writer and artist William Gilpin gives tips on how to get the most out of ‘scenic touring’ in his 1794 piece ‘On Picturesque Travel’ that are just as relevant to travel now as they...
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Spots of time and memory making 2008-03-16 12:56:47 I’ve experienced so many ‘spots in time’ as we’ve travelled around Crete and Cyprus these last couple of months that my spirit if visible would appear polka-dotted. According to the poet William...
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Reasons to be alive: spots in time 2008-03-15 10:27:12 I’ve been dipping into Alain De Botton’s The Art of Travel, as I do when I travel and reflect upon the nature of travel. De Botton tells us that the poet William Wordsworth believed that certain...
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Rural travel: the restorative powers of nature 2008-03-15 06:37:48 We came across these sheep sleeping by the side of the road in the isolated north east of Crete and we spent some time simply taking pleasure in their peace. We’ve done this a lot recently, as we’ve...
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Close encounter of the goat kind 2008-03-09 07:56:31 One of the great things about travelling in Crete is the chance to get up close and personal with the locals, especially the four-legged kind. That's one of the reasons I prefer travelling by car...
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Traffic hazards in Crete 2008-03-09 07:13:30 Like Thailand - with its stray ox sauntering along the road, its dreadful drivers, its food vendors, and moveable feasts - Crete
has its fair share of traffic hazards too. We have revised our list of...
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Observations on Cretan Village Life, or enjoying a bit of ethnographic travel 2008-03-09 05:18:55 The people of Crete are proud of their villages, the village way of life, and their traditional customs. The image here of an elderly village couple hangs on the wall at one of Chania's chicest...
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Cherry blossoms blooming in Crete 2008-03-09 04:57:59 The cherry blossoms are beginning to bloom in the countryside in Crete
. Everywhere we drive we see them and when we do we're compelled to stop and photograph them. There's a delicate beauty about...
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That was then, this is now: how we travel 2008-03-03 10:41:34 How differently we travelled when we were younger, when we tripped about the planet as 'travellers' rather than as professional travel writers. We've just finished four consecutive days of travel...
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Maintaining your holiday mojo 2008-03-02 07:44:09 Staying in holiday mode once the vacation is over and you’re back at work is something that most travellers find hard to do, especially Australians, according to the Sydney Morning Herald and a swag...
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Old doors: a taverna that understands its market (or shares its passion) 2008-03-01 10:39:37 These colorful old doors, paint peeling from them beautifully, lean against the stone walls in a charming cobbled backstreet in the Old Town of Chania, Crete. They aren't there by accident. As you...
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Old doors: wondering what's behind them 2008-03-01 10:28:05 Like many travellers I have an obsession with photographing doors. It started in Mexico many years ago and has stayed with me throughout my travels. The more colorful, faded, and older they are the...
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The ebb and flow of Crete's cafe society 2008-03-01 04:05:10 Crete's cafe life is tidal. It ebbs and flows throughout the day and night. It follows a rhythm, a regularly recurring pattern of activity. But each cafe, in each different town, dances to a beat of...
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Blue Chairs: imagining Greece, the perception & reality 2008-02-25 13:39:18 I couldn't help but capture a snap of these bright blue cafe chairs at a taverna on the waterfront at Chania, Crete, yesterday. How often have you seen similar images on Greece
Tourism television...
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Life of a Travel Writer 2008-03-20 11:11:56 As you can guess from the title, Travel
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Home is where you park it – for citizens of the road 2008-03-24 12:03:07 Becoming ‘a citizen of the road’ is a big part of the appeal of caravanning. For the 8 million American households that have a recreational vehicle, or RV, ‘it’s not just a vehicle, it’s a lifestyle’. And taking to the road on a permanent vacation has never been more popular despite the rocketing fuel prices, according to the recent USA Today article: RVs Beckon Baby Boomers Despite Fuel Costs.
Recollecting Easter Holidays and the Renaissance of Caravanning 2008-03-24 02:26:06 My childhood memories of Easter
: painting hard-boiled eggs red with my Russian baboushka; gluing pastel coloured cotton wool balls onto a silly hat (um, I mean, helping my mum make my Easter bonnet for the class competition); aching legs from standing for hours in the incense-filled Russian Orthodox church; wondering why my Easter bonnet didn’t win; concentrating on holding my candle upright so Read more:Holidays
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Places You Must Go This Spring: part 2 2008-03-23 09:23:55 Here are three more fragrant, flower- filled places you should spend some time in this spring. See my previous post for three more heady destination ideas and the post before that for my criteria for selecting these aromatic spots:
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