THE BEAUTY OF travel has always been its unpredictability but, in the Covid era, unpredictable has taken on new meaning. In November 2021, finding myself able to travel again and desperate to escape ...
The frieze from the temple of Apollo at Bassae in southwestern Greece is in the British Museum, around the corner from the marbles that Lord Elgin took from the Parthenon at Athens. Both temples were ...
You rounded the last bend on a winding rocky road and there it was. Not shining, creamy white like the Parthenon but a cold stern grey, the Doric columns growing as naturally out of the Greek ...
Rain fell in sheets on the broken columns and stone blocks. I stood on the ancient ground where Agamemnon, Socrates and Cicero, among others, had humbly stood, hoping to get answers to their big ...
The ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi still hold a strange power. If I could turn the clock back 2500 years, to the time when this magnificent Temple of Apollo at Delphi was home to the Pythian ...
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