We are absolutely thrilled to tell you that Condé Nast Traveler features, in its July 2008 issue, a MAJOR seven-page article on a voyage to Antarctica with Travel Dynamics International aboard the Corinthian II. The piece, entitled “Love in a Cold Climate,” should be available online in about a week, so in deference to that [...]
Archive for June, 2008
TDI in Antarctica, by Condé Nast Traveler
Posted in Antarctica, Reviews, tagged Antarctica, climate change, Corinthian II, cruise, global warming, icebergs, published, Reviews, travel, travel magazine on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
People are strange, when you’re a stranger
Posted in Aegean, Mediterranean, Turkey, tagged Europe, Greece, strange, travel, Turkey, Ukraine on June 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Everyone knows about that annual tempting of fate known as running with the bulls in Pamplona. It’s one of those festivals that make the saner among us scratch our heads in confusion and wonder, “How was that ever a good idea?”
But just because it is Europe’s most famous oddity certainly doesn’t make the Pamplona [...]
World’s Oldest Christian Church Discovered
Posted in Mediterranean, Religion/Mythology, tagged Christianity, church, cruise, early Christianity, ecclesiastical history, history, Jordan, St. Paul, travel, Turkey on June 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Since this was announced five minutes ago, we haven’t yet made any plans to visit it — but don’t count us out.
Archaeologists in Rihab, Jordan, say they have discovered a cave that could be the world’s oldest Christian church. Dating to the period AD 33-70, the underground chapel would have served as both a place [...]
Religious Warfare in the Aegean
Posted in Aegean, tagged Aegean, Chios, cruise, Easter, fireworks, religious warfare, rockets, travel on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Chios is a lovely place. It’s a tiny Aegean island just five miles from the coast of Turkey. It’s one of the places reputed to be the birthplace of Homer, and its 11th-century monastery Nea Moni is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. We visit it on our Undiscovered Greece cruise. A really placid, peaceful, soul-nurturing [...]
Happy Birthday! Quebec City is 400.
Posted in North America, tagged Canada, cruise, Quebec, Quebec City, travel on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s going to be 97 degrees in New York City today, and if you’re feeling anything like the TDIBlog right now, you’re desperately thinking of ways to stay cool. The picture above should do the trick. Oh, Canada! Forgive us our American triumphalism of yesteryear. Your forests and Francophonic felicities will satiate our summer sweatiness.
Quebec [...]
Women’s Power in Ancient Greece
Posted in Aegean, Mediterranean, classics, tagged Ancient Greece, cruise, feminism, travel, women on June 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From the esteemed Mediterranean Archaeology blog of Ioannis Georganas, and immediately following our previous discussion of Queen Zenobia and powerful women of antiquity, we learn that:
University of Manchester researchers have revealed how women, as well as men, held positions of power in ancient Greece by right of birth.
Women were thought to have had [...]
Ancient Palmyra and the Grand yet Lamentable History of Queen Zenobia
Posted in Mediterranean, tagged Cleopatra, cruise, decline and fall, feminism, Gibbon, Rome, Syria, travel, Zenobia on June 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
In October of 2009, Travel Dynamics International will undertake a strikingly original cruise called Remarkable Women of Antiquity and their Times. In it, we’ll be traveling into Syria, to the splendid ruins of Palmyra, to have a look at the reign of Queen Zenobia.
Palmyra? Zenobia?
What’s that? Who’s she?
Shame on you. Clearly you’ve not recently delved [...]
