Category: Travel
Laos and Thailand
A Holiday January 2015 HOLIDAY 2015 !1 Simon & Margaret de Mare Travels in South East Asia 2015 In seat 13G on flight no. BA 9 to Bangkok on 27 [ … ]
Cambodia, Angor Wat
Diary of an Adventure, 2011 “Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think” Sunday 30 January On the first leg, up at 5.30 am, to the sound of Margaret’s hair dryer. [ … ]
Cuba
Time Line for Cuba from ‘Cuba, A New History’ by Richard Gott 1492 &1494 Columbus visits Cuba, “discovers” indigenous tobacco plant. “The most beautiful that humankind have ever seen” 1511 [ … ]
Thessaloniki Part 2
Thessaloniki The While Tower, built by the Ottoman Turks in the late 15 th. C and now the icon of the city. The only remaining mosque in the city, the [ … ]
Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki “Salonica, Historically Greek, politically Turkish, geographically Bulgarian, ethnographically Jewish” Salonica, City [ … ]