Too Square to be Hip
A narcissist's guide to travel and culture
In this post we will cover a small part of eastern Prince Edward County often neglected by tourists. This massive landmass is located in the province of Ontario and juts out its jagged edges into Lake Ontario. This peninsula is separated from the nearby Loyalist Township my a thin body of water called the Bay …
Just south-west of Jordan’s capital Amman lies a little piece of the Holy Land steeped in old and new testament history. This area consists of the urban center of Madaba and the hilltop shrine of Mount Nebo, a one-two combo of attractions that can rival most in the Holy Land, or anywhere in Jordan for …
This ancient Hellenic Settlement in northern Jordan was one of the most important in the Roman Levant. Although ruined and left untended in a state of abandon, these leftover are particularly impressive. To some they are a “Pompeii of the Middle East”. For the nomad or a lone shepherd using it as a camp for …
The Seaside Port of Brockville is one that I have “graced” with my presence for several summers on my roadtrips from Ottawa to Toronto. Not only does it have a fantastic fish and chip, but also a fine assortment of watering holes and an assortment of fine Victorian architecture that could make an architect blush! …
High above the Dead Sea sits a windswept barren wasteland that seems to be far removed from the natural world. In this post we trace my footsteps from my swimming in the Dead Sea to the Judean Fortress of Machaerus where John the Baptist lost his head. For more information on St. John, visit the …
This peculiarly named place, occupies a scenic place on the St. Lawrence shoreline. Tracing back its name to its first nation origins, Gananoque in fact means the “town on two rivers”, and from there it only grew! The tiny Loyalist settlement is one of the most quaint along the St. Lawrence corridor and is touted …
Just north of the Nabataean city of Petra, this canyon suburb remained hidden from foreigners long after the Swiss Jean Louis Burckhardt rediscovered Petra. Home to the desert Bedouin, this rocky filled landscape is also home to Al Beidha, one of the oldest inhabited regions in the world. For more information on the Nabataeans and …
I would like to start this article with a bit of a different format than I typically do. This is a small sort of essay that I have completed about the city and my strange love for all things Jewish. From here I will proceed to the typical city guide. My Thoughts on Jerusalem and …
Driving in capital of the OG Philadelphia is one difficult task. One of the oldest inhabited places in the world, Amman many have modernized but it is still a complex maze of 1-ways winding around and up/down a series of hills through the city center! This dynamism exhibited in Amman was not always so. The …
When the Arab armies invaded Egypt, they founded a new capital on the Nile upstream from the ruins of Memphis, one the capital of Lower Egypt. The name of this city was Fustat, now a suburb of modern Cairo. The city may have had a late start in comparison to its contemporaries but the chaotic …
