I spotted this antique vendor pushing his cart through the Plaka which is a main tourist neighborhood of Athens just below the Acropolis.

The Amateur Traveler talks to Craig Zabransky from StayAdventurous.com about his recent trip to Bulgaria. He traveled with a Bulgarian friend and visited picturesque towns as well as the amazing blue waters [...]

The working day  doesn’t start too early at La Casa delle Acque, a small organic orange farm at the foot of Mount Etna in Sicily. It’s around 8 O’clock. The sun has lit [...]

I could not find a reference for which saint is dying in this statue outside the St. Vitus Cathedral. But I would take a guess that it might be St. Vitus.

This photo shows some of the elaborate stonework at the Alhambra in Grenada, Spain. Grenada was one of the last bastions of Islamic rule in Spain and the carving around this window [...]

I reviewed Taking Root in Provence, by Anne-Marie Simons. This book is a happy little account of a multi-cultural couple who, when it came time for early retirement, decided to find a [...]

Shakespeare started Act III of Merchant of Venice with the line “Now, what news on the Rialto?”. This important and historic bridge in Venice, Italy was the first to be built across [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to well-known travel writer / editor Don George about his first visit to the Champagne region of France. Despite having lived in France after college, Don had never [...]

This castle in the lakeside town of Spiez was built in the 15th and 16th Centuries. Lake Thun is one of the two lakes that Interlaken is inter (between). A drive around [...]

Only in a town like Toledo, Spain would it be normal to see so much arms and armor in store windows. Toledo is known for its steel.