Peloponnese
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Why read old stuff when there is so much new stuff? Because what was written by the ancients, or by travelers in earlier centuries, can give today’s traveler a sense of the underpinnings of today’s culture of a place. I have already sung the praises of using Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian Wars as a [...]
Destination: Peloponnese, Greece Book: Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh Fermor “All of Greece is absorbing and rewarding. There is hardly a rock or a stream without a battle or a myth, a miracle or a peasant anecdote or a superstition; and talk and incident, nearly all of it odd or memorable, [...]
Destination: Pylos, Greece Book: The History of the Peloponnesian Wars by Thucydides I’m in a road trip frame of mind, since I’m in the middle of one right now. Thanks to a hotel with WIFI and for Traveler’s son lending a laptop to the cause, I can add some thoughts on road trips to the [...]
