by Beth Holmes | Aug 14, 2023 | Art & Culture, International, Places On Our Bucket List, Uncategorized
Athens is going to put limits on how many people can visit their famous Acropolis each day, to prevent overcrowding. The Acropolis of Athens is Greece’s most popular archaeological site. It features the Parthenon, the Erechtheion temple beside it, the Propulaea...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 29, 2023 | Art & Culture, International, Places On Our Bucket List, Uncategorized
Stonehenge greeted the summer solstice this year with over 8,000 visitors, showing why many believe it to be an ancient timekeeper. Wednesday, June 21st is the longest day of this year in the Northern Hemisphere, the day the sun circles directly above the Tropic of...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 12, 2023 | Art & Culture, International, News, Places On Our Bucket List
Mont-Saint-Michel, one of France’s most spectacular tourist destinations, is celebrating one thousand years since its founding. Mont-Saint-Michel is a rocky island only a few hundred miles off the shore of Normandy, at the mouth of the Couesnon River near...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 5, 2023 | Art & Culture, International, Places On Our Bucket List, Politics
The Tower of David museum in Jerusalem is reopening after a three-year closure for renovations. The oldest parts of the Tower of David are over two thousand years old, and have been built over again and again as the ancient fortification’s use and needs evolved...
by Beth Holmes | May 1, 2023 | Art & Culture, International, News, Politics
The coronation of King Charles III is expected to bring close to 3 million visitors to London this May, bringing billions of pounds of cash to help the city’s tourist economy recover from the pandemic. Last year, the U.K. brought in almost 30 million tourists,...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 13, 2023 | Art & Culture, International, Places On Our Bucket List
Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris should reopen to visitors at the end of 2024, six years after being ravaged by fire. In the afternoon of April 15, 2019, fire broke out in the timbers below the roof of Notre Dame Cathedral, above the vaulted stone ceiling within....
