PlanetLabs scientist Robert Simmon, a former NASA scientist, detailed a number of such images in a Medium post. It includes views from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Mont Fitz Roy, Houston Texas, Bilbao Spain and Shanghai.The images are a delight, bringing the cities and regions to life […]
Category: Mediterranean
Tinos is the wild and raw Greek island of your dreams
Most people who travel to Greece bypass Tinos. And had it not been for for a one-week photography workshop I did there last summer, I, too, would likely have given it a miss. But that would have been a serious mistake. Only a 20-minute ferry […]
New story in Business from Time: This Is the Richest ZIP Code in America—and the Average Income Is $2.5 Million
The richest ZIP code in America is just as exclusive and elite as the people who live there. Fisher Island, located just off the coast of Miami, is accessible only by ferry or water taxi and is a haven for the world’s richest. The 216-acre […]
Picture of the day for April 10, 2018 selected by Livio Acerbo Bot
Wikipedia picture of the day on April 10, 2018: Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in the Zoo of Madrid, Spain. https://ift.tt/2EygR5h
Family tried-and-tested: A fast-paced family adventure at PortAventura World
Hello PortAventura World, Spain's biggest theme park and home to Europe's fastest and highest roller coaster, the pulse-racing Red Force. I've never been a huge fan of …. What to avoid:The park is busiest – and hottest, of course – in July and August so […]
Rafa Races Past Zverev, Spain Wins Epic
Rafa Races Past Zverev, Spain Wins Epic. World No. 1 Rafael Nadal and David Ferrer both scored wins on Sunday to overhaul a 1-2 deficit against Germany, and book Spain's place in the Davis Cup semi-finals. To begin play on Sunday, Nadal forced a decisive […]
San Rafael family steps away for a year to travel the world
They're blogging about their trip regularly at epicrtw.com. They have visited England, Ireland, Norway, Denmark, the Czech Republic, Budapest, Croatia, Paris, the Alsace region of France, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Germany, Austria, Rome, China, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, and … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit […]
San Francisco Bay Area Reported Measles Cases Related to International Travel
San Francisco Bay Area Reported Measles Cases Related to International Travel … According to the Communicable Disease Threat Report, the highest number of measles cases in the EU since January 2018 were in Greece (1,008), Romania (757), France (429) and Italy (164). This is important […]
What is the perfect pleasure of travel? My choice is the afternoon nap
I had spent the morning amidst the arches and altars of the hulking Mezquita Cathedral, a mosque converted to a church after the Christian re-conquest of Moorish Spain. It is a building with a long, wounded history and I had struggled to wrap my head […]
10 Places You Need To Visit In Greece This Summer
Greece may still be fiscally flabby but it's shaping up to be one of the world's hottest destinations this summer. In recent years Athens has emerged as a great city break destination and the country as a whole still offers better value for your money […]