The wind is cold atop the Priamar Fortress complex. While the sun is out, making for a beautiful day, January sends a chilly breeze flowing over the stone battlements and down to the city below. I walk around slowly, alternating my view between the Mediterranean and the city of Savona, marveling at the vastness of…
This was a day that wasn’t supposed to happen. Today, I was meant to take the train from my base in Genoa to the town of Santa Margharita Ligure, a coastal city best known as the place one catches the bus to the luxury mecca of Portofino. I was going to remain in Santa Margharita…
Editor’s note: First, a disclaimer. This is NOT an article about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This IS an article about a cool Palestinian city. I was in Ramallah when I was in Israel as a high schooler. The Oslo Accords had been signed and everyone in both countries was hopeful for lasting peace, so travel between…
When those who would become the Aztecs discovered this city in the 1200s, it was already ancient. And it was already mostly empty, having been abandoned for reasons unknown more than 400 years prior. But at its zenith, Teotihuacan was perhaps the most influential civilization in Meso-America, its culture spreading as far as the mighty…
Not too many of America’s national parks occupy a place like this, just outside of a major metropolitan area. But here, just a half hour from downtown Cleveland, and - in some places - mere feet off of interstate freeways, sits an oasis easily reachable by day trippers. Hiking, bird watching, and one of the…
Oftentimes, phrasing an article title as a question is rhetorical, and an author - me, for instance - has an answer already in mind. On this occasion, it is actually a question. Yesterday (as I write this), I spent the day with Exuma Powerboat Adventures on a day trip from Nassau to their private island…
Editor’s note: Andalusia is my favorite part of Spain, probably because Seville is easily my favorite city in this amazing country. When (not if) I go back, I intend to fill in the seaside portion of that region, anchored by the city of Malaga. Lucky for me, TRT writer Sam Spector has done a lot…
Editor’s note: I’ve been lucky enough to spend a decent amount of time in Israel, and to have visited the Dead Sea on three different occasions. It is truly a remarkable place. In this piece, Sam does an incredible job narrating why this entire region is so special. For more of his writing, click here…
Before this, my second trip to Guatemala, I didn’t even know that there were highland Mayan kingdoms. I had believed that to see remnants of the Mayan people, one had to journey to the jungles in Guatemala’s north, to the lowland cities of Tikal, Yaxha, and the other classical Mayan city-states in the region. But…
For those who come to Guatemala to see some Mayan ruins, that experience typically starts and ends at the largest and best excavated of the Mayan cities: Tikal. That is how I spent my first trip to this part of Guatemala back in 2019. And while those prioritizing Tikal are entirely correct to do so…