asiatravel132 views5 minute read Turkey’s ancient city of Ephesus is so intact, the locals probably don’t know the Roman Empire fell yet.Peter Crosby05/14/2023 This ancient Greco-Roman city is the oldest and most complete site ever excavated while people probably still lived there. View Post
asiatravel150 views10 minute read Turkey’s Cappadocia region would be the perfect place to trip on ’shrooms.Peter Crosby05/06/2023 Do you like deserts and phalli, but can’t afford to attend Burning Man? View Post
asiatravel97 views6 minute read Israel’s Masada would make an amazing Airbnb if its last occupants hadn’t trashed the place.Peter Crosby11/11/2022 If there’s one thing I know for certain, the Ancient Romans aren’t getting their security deposit back. View Post
asiatravel42 views12 minute read Jerusalem may be popular with Christians, but Jesus probably hated the godforsaken place.Peter Crosby11/09/2022 People have been returning to Jerusalem for almost 2,000 years, but why would Jesus ever go back? View Post
europetravel62 views6 minute read Amalfi Italy was once a major port, so some lazy Italians named the entire coast after it.Peter Crosby05/11/2022 At the mouth of a deep ravine, Amalfi Italy looks like it got vomited out of the surrounding mountains. View Post
europetravel357 views9 minute read Naples Italy is dirty, noisy, and crowded. But the city has its downsides, too.Peter Crosby05/07/2022 This vibrant port city is veritably overflowing with restaurants, shopping, gelato, and shipping containers. View Post
europetravel53 views7 minute read No city crams in more Europe per square inch than Porto Portugal.Peter Crosby03/06/2020 Experience Europe in its most concentrated form. View Post
europetravel80 views7 minute read You don’t have to be royalty to enjoy the Portuguese Riviera, but it helps.Peter Crosby03/06/2020 Ask about our “Exiled Royal Family Discount” Heirs to the throne eat free! View Post
europetravel101 views9 minute read Seville Spain was built on stolen gold and, from the looks of the place, a shipload of it.Peter Crosby05/15/2015 Seville Spain was built on stolen South American gold, and judging from the look of the place, assloads of the stuff. View Post
europenorth americasitesouth americatravel47 views7 minute read Quito Ecuador: The world’s second-highest capital city (and not because they legalized drugs).Peter Crosby06/11/2012 Though merely the second capital of the Inca Empire, Quito was, and still is, first in “cities surrounded on all sides by active volcanoes.” View Post
south americatravel52 views4 minute read Hot and dry like LA, Lima Peru even has its clean, breathable air.Peter Crosby06/04/2012 Lima is an amazing, chaotic city with a rich and tragic heritage that I’d highly recommend visiting. View Post
africatravel49 views20 minute read Egypt Africa: The world’s most ancient civilization (and it has the dust to prove it).Peter Crosby12/23/2010 Some of the earliest developments in writing, agriculture, and government happened here first. Why? Aliens, duh. View Post