By Cathy H. Burroughs, Adventure & Travel Blogger, journeyPod.com Location, location, location! Asheville, North Carolina’s stunning downtown and completely remodeled 4-star Windsor Boutique Hotel has this in spades. Perfectly positioned in the bustling eye of this
Central Greece’s Magical Mountainous Village of Portaria: Walking in the Footprints of the Gods A lesser-known destination in central Greece with skiing in winter and cozy fireplaces in some of the rooms, Portaria offers a cool respite from
By Cathy H. Burroughs, International Travel Writer & Adventure Blogger, journeyPod.com All roads in Spain literally lead from Madrid, its central and continuous capital since 1606. With its cosmopolitan boulevards, phalanxes of period architectural showplaces, non-stop night life, world-class cultural lineage, ebullient urban parks and
By Cathy H. Burroughs, International Travel Writer & Adventure Blogger, journeyPod.com While staying in Spain’s mysterious and alluring capital city of Madrid, we were invited by the region of Castile and Leon for a series of three thrilling day trips to three important and spectacular historic towns: Avila, Salamanca and Segovia. Madrid’s really exceptional
By Cathy H. Burroughs, International Travel Writer & Adventure Blogger, journeyPod.com Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and
By Cathy H. Burroughs, International Travel Writer & Adventure Blogger, journeyPod.com Françoise and Jean-Hubert Dubrulle: South of France’s Sainte-Marie-La-Mer – A First Time Home Exchange (www.homeexchange.com) to End all Home Exchanges (# 1341039) Little did we know when
By Cathy H. Burroughs, International Travel Writer & Adventure Blogger, journeyPod.com Christmas, the winter holidays and New Year’s are a particularly thrilling and exhilarating time to visit the meticulously refined and historic Westin
By Cathy H. Burroughs, International Travel Writer & Adventure Blogger, journeyPod.com Only in Greece would you drive more than two hours through perilous Peloponnesian mountains to a perfectly preserved ancient amphitheater with pretechnology impeccable acoustics, joining nearly 15,000 fully engaged
By Cathy H. Burroughs, International Travel Writer & Adventure Blogger, journeyPod.com Less than 30 miles from Florence you’ll find the lesser-known Lucca, the last of the medieval walled-cities of Italy. The other end of the spectrum from the vesper-hectic, art-infused frenzy that is