Greece 2012 #7 Temples and Take-Off
Then before we realised it, it was the last day of the road trip portion of our journey. In a desperate attempt to fit everything in we visited three major…
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Greece 2012 #2
The study tour section of the trip started in earnest at half eight on Tuesday morning after our dishevelled group staggered down from breakfast, such as it was. I was…
An Archaeology Tour of Greece (2012) #1
I’ve wanted to go to Athens and see the Acropolis since I was eleven and my drama teacher started us on Greek tragedies. So when a university study trip of ten…
Istanbul (2012) #4: Turkish Art and the Spice Bazaar
Down the side of Sultanahmet mosque is a square with Egyptian obelisks brought to then Constantinople by the Romans and the Serpent Column of Greece which once stood as a Pan-Hellenic monument…
