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 posts complement what is available on our main website and in our brochure. They offer examples of the fascinating stories and ideas, the lovely flavours and sights, the extraordinary experiences that we share with our guests in six countries.
Texts 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.
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Helena Tomas - A Fundraiser by Former Guests Dear Former and Future Travellers with Peter Sommer Travels, A number of our previous travellers have set up a fundraising page on behalf of one of our tour leaders, Professor ... Read More
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The Vindolanda Tablets: Ancient voices from Roman Britain Scraps with scrawls. If you look more closely, the scraps are of wood and the scrawls are writing, in ink. They don't look like much and indeed they were (eventually) ... Read More
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Buhara Pilav - Anatolian rice with lamb and spices Today, I'm sharing a recipe for a dish that any traveller to Turkey will have encountered in some form or another, be it at a friendly host's home table, or ... Read More
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Another thing: a sight fit for a god - the Vatican Sleeping Ariadne “Another thing” is a series of occasional posts, each presenting a particularly interesting, beautiful or unusual object on display at one of the museums or sites on our tours. Look ... Read More
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Another view: Konrad von Grünenberg - a package holiday in 1486 "Another view” is an occasional series of posts presenting the sites and areas we see on our travels through the eyes of writers. From the great ancient sources via travellers ... Read More
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Beef Youvetsi, a hearty Greek bake of meat and pasta Today, we present a very traditional Greek recipe, equally at home in people's family kitchens as it is on taverna tables: beef youvetsi (you'll also find it transcribed as giouvetsi ... Read More
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Another thing: a cultural hero - Socrates on a fresco in Ephesus “Another thing” is a series of occasional posts, each presenting a particularly interesting, beautiful or unusual object on display at one of the museums or sites on our tours. A ... Read More
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Brodet recipe: Croatian fish stew. Delicious! Today, I will present you with a Dalmatian taste, one that is essential to travelling on the shores and islands of the Adriatic coast of Croatia. Brodet is a part ... Read More
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The Archaic Warriors and Ladies of Archontiko in Macedonia Pella is a well-known archaeological site in Central Macedonia, Northern Greece, only 40km (25mi) to the west of Thessaloniki, the region's modern capital. From the 4th to the 2nd centuries ... Read More
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Pasta alla carbonara - the Roman way Today, we'd like to present a well-known - but often misunderstood - Italian classic, or more precisely a Roman one. It's pasta alla carbonara, and like other Roman pasta recipes, ... Read More
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Another thing: delicate beyond belief and made of agava - Hvar Lace “Another thing” is a series of occasional posts, each presenting a particularly interesting, beautiful or unusual object on display at one of the museums or sites on our tours. It's ... Read More
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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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"Gods in Color (Bunte Götter) - Golden Edition" in Frankfurt (The exhibition has been extended until January 17, 2021, and we have amended this post accordingly.) Gods in Color - Golden Edition awaits you in Frankfurt and it's worth adapting ... Read More
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The hidden pyramids at the ancient city of Phoenix in Carian Turkey Pyramids in Anatolian Caria? Yes, it sounds a bit strange… yet they do exist! Of course, apart from their funerary connection, these have nothing to do with the Egyptian ones. ... Read More
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Limenas on Thasos - exploring an Ancient Greek city I was on Thasos a few weeks ago (for the first time in a while), and it struck me just what an extraordinary place it is! Thasos (sometimes spelt Thassos) ... Read More