Tag Archives: History & exploration
Montevideo: The Grill and the Graf Spee
Walk into the Mercado del Puerto and the first thing that hits you is the [...]
Aug
Stanley, Falklands: A Village at the End of the Earth
After Antarctica, you tie up at a town with four pubs and a fish and [...]
Aug
Antarctica: The Continent Nobody Owns
You are looking at the only continent on earth with no country, no government, and [...]
Aug
Ushuaia: The Land Named for Its Fires
Magellan's men sailed past this coast in 1520 and saw fires burning along the shore. [...]
Aug
Punta Arenas: Where Shackleton’s Rescue Began
Shackleton's men all came home alive. The ship that went and got them sailed from [...]
Aug
La Boca: Houses Painted With Leftover Ship Paint
One neighborhood in Buenos Aires is bright pink, yellow, blue, and green. There is a [...]
Aug
Buenos Aires Before an Antarctica Cruise
The ship sails for Antarctica on December 21. On December 20 you land in eighty-four-degree [...]
Aug
Aberdeenshire: Castles, Stones, and Sacred Places
Aberdeenshire in a Day: Castles, Stones, and Sacred Places Aberdeenshire is a landscape where memory [...]
Sep
Reykjavík: Farewell at the Edge of the World
Reykjavík: Farewell at the Edge of the World Journeys do not end where ships dock. [...]
Sep
Ålesund & the Land of Trolls: Where Myth Walks Beside Stone
Norway is a country where landscape and legend never travel far apart. The artistry of [...]
Sep
Invergordon, Inverness & Loch Ness: Where History Lingers in the Highlands
The farther north you travel in Scotland, the more the landscape itself seems to take [...]
Sep
Edinburgh: Walking Through Layers of Time
When you arrive in Edinburgh, you immediately feel that you are stepping into a city [...]
Sep
