Too Square to be Hip
A narcissist's guide to travel and culture
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 …
Renfrew and its Country Fair Like many teens/young adults in the Ottawa area, I filled my summers up by hitting concerts at the never ending series of concerts taking place at the Ottawa Valley country fairs. My first visit to the town was to see Kim Mitchel, where he was drunkenly heckled to play their …
Located on the west bank of the Nile River, the city of Giza is best known for its world famous necropolis complex, considered to be one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and one of the most monumental structures ever put into being. It is also in some ways the first tourist site …
