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Danube, Budapest

Zorba the Greek

The sun is warming, the birds are chirping, the flowers are blooming and the garden is growing. May is a month of transition; the natural world revives and reinvigorates after the colder winter months, and life is starting to seem a little more joyful day by day. May takes its name from Maia – in Greek mythology, the eldest of the seven nymphs of the Pleiades. She was the daughter of Atlas, the Titan god, doomed to carry the weight of...

Johann Strauss statue in Vienna's Stadtpark © Hans Wiesenhofer, Österreich Werbung

Machu Picchu © David Stanley

The Graben, Vienna, ca 1895 © trialsanderrors

San Gimignano

Volterra

Jesus enters Jerusalem © Birgit Gudjonsdottir | Passion Play Theatre © Kienberger, Passion Play Oberammergau 2022

September, fragment of a Roman mosaic in the Sousse Archaeological Museum, Tunisia © Ad Meskens / Wikimedia Commons

Christmas tree © Kevin Bidwell

Left: Striezelmarkt, Dresden Right: Traditional Christmas treats © Guenter Kresser

Commonwealth Cemetery, Cassino

Winston Churchill, Gertrude Bell (3rd from left), T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) at Giza during the 1921 Cairo Conference.

2022, here we come! We all hoped that 2021 would enable us to travel the world, meet friends in other countries and simply let us roam free. Since that dream has faded away, we got busy setting up 2022 programs and we have our tours ready. Here is a selection of what we have in store for you. We look forward to having you join us soon! JANUARY 2022 - Classical South Pacific on the m/s Paul Gauguin Discover the...

After more than a year of staying put and exploring our own backyard, do we still know our way around the globe? Here is a quiz to test your knowledge of our world’s geography! Answers at the bottom.  1. This landmark is 6 inches taller in summer than in winter, it was supposed to have been torn down and sold for scrap 20 years after it was built, and the man who designed it also designed the interior framework of the Statue...

Venetian mask

1947 Kon-Tiki Expedition across the Pacific © National Library of Norway

Gryphon Trio © Bo Huang

Most of the world's most iconic sights only get better with age and stand out more when compared to the more minimalist creations of modern architecture. Some of them lean, one or two have gotten a little bit cracked over the years, and a few of them have a bus stop spoiling their view.   Standing strong throughout the years in the face of whatever else the world happens to throw at them, the magnificence of these buildings, bridges, streets and monuments...