Insights on Travel & Culture
alley cat: noun 1. a stray cat
2. an adventurous, insatiably curious person
3. verb [intransitive] to explore ~ They love to alley cat around Rome.
Who would have known that Ft. Myers, Florida now has, according to a recent story in Florida Weekly by journalist Roger Williams, the “single finest bookstore in and about the state of Florida?” In fact, this new literary resource…Continue Reading
Antigua is the oldest colonial city in Central America. Founded by the Spanish in 1524 and twice relocated, Antigua—known as Santiago de Guatemala at the time—was Guatemala’s capital until 1773 when a series of devastating earthquakes…Continue Reading
Something Wonderful, Rogers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdam (Henry Holt & Company, 2018) has been praised in The N.Y. Times as “a reminder of the bold breadth of the business, in the Broadway sense, of the Rogers and Hammerstein…Continue Reading
October 21 – November 7, 2017
“The stark polar lands grip the hearts of men who have lived on them in a manner hardly understood by people who’ve never got…Continue Reading
October 22-23, 2017
The first two days of our 19-day expedition to the Falklands and South Georgia Island are at sea, which allows us plenty of time to explore Poseidon Expeditions’…Continue Reading
Puerto Madryn, October 21, 2017
Today we arrive in Puerto Madryn, a town on Argentina’s coast, nearly two hours by air from Buenos Aires.
The dining room of our hotel in Puerto Madryn looks onto the sparking blue waters…Continue Reading
We leave this week for the adventure of a lifetime on the Sea Spirit, an expedition ship owned and operated by Poseidon Expeditions (poseidonexpeditions.com). Founded in 1999, the company has a reputation for high quality, excellent-value cruises to the Arctic, Subantarctic and Antarctic regions. Poseidon Expeditions also offers…Continue Reading
Just returned from a wonderful journey to the Peruvian highlands where we visited the UNESCO World Heritage city of Cusco, small towns and markets in the Sacred Valley and, of course, Machu Picchu.
“Musts” in Cusco:…Continue Reading