Peter Sommer Travels Blog
Welcome to our blog!
Since 2011, this is where we provide extra insight and information about our expert-led cultural tours and cruises. Our blog posts complement what is available on our main website and in our brochures – they offer examples of the fascinating stories and ideas, the lovely flavours and sights, the extraordinary experiences that we share with our guests on our tours.
Our posts cover a wide variety of topics and are in various styles: articles about archaeology and history brought to you by our tour experts, tour diaries, news from excavations and museums, recipes, reading suggestions, updates on our new itineraries and much more – it’s all here for you to discover and enjoy.
After browsing some of our posts, why not take a look at our range of expert-led archaeological tours or gulet cruises, or get in touch so we can help create a wonderful private tour just for you.
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Forbes Article - Peter Sommer’s Top 5 Lesser-Known Destinations In Turkey Peter was asked to write an article for Forbes recommending his top five 'lesser known' destinations in Turkey. After a great deal of deliberation, he settled on five of ... Read More
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The Medieval Castle at Platamon in Macedonia, Greece It would almost take an act of will to miss Platamon Castle as you drive south out of Macedonia towards Thessaly, so prominent is it on its rocky eminence, ... Read More
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Labraunda, an archaeological site in Turkey: Jewel of the Hekatomnid Era If you are looking for a place of serenity, then you should come to Labraunda. The site is nestling in the heart of the Carian mountains in southwest Turkey, surrounded ... Read More
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Our Guestbook : Highlights from Our 2025 Traveller Reviews At Peter Sommer Travels, the voices of our guests are at the very heart of what we do. Every review shared is a window into a journey experienced, offering us ... Read More
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Hvar in Croatia: A Venetian Port in the Adriatic If you set sail from Split and head south through the Split Gates—formed by the tips of the islands of Brač and Šolta—the next island you’ll encounter is Hvar, the ... Read More
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Patara: an amazing ancient city in Turkey Imagine a spacious coastal valley, separated from the Mediterranean Sea by tall sand dunes. At its centre lies a swampy lake, surrounded by a small plain which is overlooked by ... Read More
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The Island of Vis - Croatia Sailing towards the island of Vis, you immediately realize you are navigating more open and serious waters than when sailing along the mainland coast or the larger, more sheltered islands ... Read More
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The History of Budva in Montenegro The history of Budva, at least according to ancient Greek mythology, begins in Thebes with the hero Cadmus. Cadmus, the brother of Europa and the legendary founder of Thebes was ... Read More -
Gamopilafo: Goat meat and Turkey with rice. A Cretan recipe Crete, the largest and one of the most distinguished of the Greek islands, is well known to many of our guests who have explored Crete with us since we started ... Read More -
The History of Crete: One island - Three Golden Ages Crete, the largest of the Greek islands and a place very close to our heart, has appeared on Peter Sommer Travels' blog before. Of course it has: Exploring Crete, the ... Read More
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The ancient Greek Temples at Agrigento, Sicily Agrigento is quite an assault on the senses. Everywhere there is scale and hugeness. It bespeaks vastness wherever the head turns. In part, this is a contribution of geography, which ... Read More -
Rhodes and the Knights - Some of the most magnificent defensive walls in the Mediterranean Rhodes now is a place of sun-bleached streets, t-shirted visitors ambling past brightly-painted houses thinking glad thoughts, rightly congratulating themselves they made the decision to come to a place that’s ... Read More
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The City of Stageira, home of Aristotle in Macedonia, Northern Greece Stageira’s not one of the first rank cities of the ancient Greek world and doesn’t trouble the histories of the period too much, but it did have the lure of ... Read More
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Rethymno and its Venetian fortress, the Fortezza, on the island of Crete Rethymno’s Fortezza crowns a great craggy rock over the town on the northern shore of Crete, sure to draw the eye whether you’re immediately under its towering thick and ... Read More
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A visit to the Legions: a review of the British Museum's exhibition The Roman army is one of the reasons I’m sitting here writing this. As a child living around the fringes of army bases that sort of topic was always going ... Read More
