by Matthew Allison | Sep 23, 2021 | Europe
Why Visit Sikinos Island September 2021: Sikinos Island has all of the beauty of Santarini-high sea cliffs, white walled villages but without the over-development and droves of tourists. Sikinos is a quiet island, which still has working donkeys. One of the reasons I...
by Matthew Allison | Sep 21, 2021 | Europe
The Legend of the King Minos, the Labyrinth and the Minotaur September 2021: Legacy of the Minoans on Crete Origins of Europe’s First CivilizationThe Minoan civilization of Crete dates back to 3500 BC, making it the first advanced civilization in Europe. Its history...
by Matthew Allison | Sep 19, 2021 | Europe
September 2021: North Macedonia is one of Europe’s newer countries, having been part of the communist Eastern Bloc nation of Yugoslavia until the early 1990s. It wasn’t until Yugoslavia collapsed with the fall of communism that North Macedonia, along with...
by Matthew Allison | Sep 18, 2021 | Europe
Zubr-Bison Tracking in Europe’s Largest Old Growth Forest September 2021: Before this trip the closest I was to visiting Poland was being stuck in a taxi-way at the Warsaw airport while drinking vodka shots and eating sausages with a group of Russians on a...
by Matthew Allison | Dec 26, 2019 | Europe
Touchdown in Portugal December 2019 – One Day, One Country, No Sleep After a long and exhausting overnight flight on TAP Airlines from Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, I landed in Lisbon, Portugal, early in the morning. Despite running on almost no sleep, I was determined to...
by Matthew Allison | Sep 26, 2019 | Europe
September 2019: I’ll be honest, the only reason why I went to San Marino is because it constitutes a new country. I was in Venice with my friends and because we were so close, we decided to visit San Marino for a day. My friend Richard hired a SUV and a guide,...
