June 13, 2006
Random post from the past:
Greek Gibraltar?
Monemvasía has been dubbed the "Gibraltar of Greece" - and there are definite similarities. Only a small dyke links the Island-rock to the Peloponnese, in earlier times this strategic position was further fortified by a drawing bridge and a castle on top of the rock. Looking at the town from this side it seems to be almost uninhabited, - only after passing through the city gate one sees the remains of a city that once had 30000 inhabitants. Today, the lower city has been carefully restaurated and it is possible to stay there in an apartment that is several centuries old. Definitely ...
March 2nd, 2007 at 4:24 am
I am so jealous. If there was only one place I could ever travel to, I would choose Scotland. I find it funny how it’s in the middle of the street. I went to Italy last year for my March break on a school trip, and when we were in Rome we went to the Colliseum. All the pictures I had seen of it made it look as though it were out in the middle of nowhere, yet when we got there, there was a huge intersection.