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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Agave Lace: UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage from Hvar in Croatia It's a piece of lace. Hvar Lace. I guess one would call it a doily, a small decorative item for a table or another surface. You can't tell from 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 in Greece - exploring an Ancient Greek city Thasos (sometimes spelt Thassos) is a lesser-known Greek Island and Limenas is its capital town. The island is a smallish one, set in the North Aegean, just off the coast ... Read More
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Finding Lydae: a remote Roman city off the beaten track The city of Lydae, one of the westernmost of the Lycian region, is still a riddle for most scholars. Located in the middle of a peninsula, in a basin surrounded ... Read More
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Troy: Myth and Reality at the British Museum Putting on an exhibition about Troy and the Trojan War carries a particular weight of expectation. It’s at the centre of everything for so many of us: archaeologists, ancient historians, ... Read More
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Dubrovnik's City Walls - protecting the Republic of Ragusa Dubrovnik, the 'Pearl of the Adriatic', is justly seen by most as an absolutely unmissable site for those travelling along the coast of Croatia and looking for the region's history ... Read More
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The ancient Urn of Brasidas at Amphipolis in Greece We're back in Macedonia, Northern Greece, at Amphipolis, site of the celebrated Kasta Tumulus its excavation a few years ago. That story is perhaps awaiting its conclusion. Today, however, we ... Read More
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The Gleninsheen Collar: Treasure in the National Museum of Ireland The final day of our tour of Ireland brought us back to Dublin, the country's most important city since the Late Middle Ages. In the afternoon, we offered our guests ... Read More
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Newgrange in Ireland and its Megalithic art The penultimate day of our Exploring Ireland tour, was dedicated to three sites. Before returning to Dublin, we saw the monastic site of Monasterboice, with its famous High Crosses and ... Read More
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Trim Castle: the Keep May we recommend a visit to Trim Castle in County Meath in Ireland? Our picture shows the keep, or donjon, of Trim Castle, i.e. the innermost and free-standing fortification, the ... Read More
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Inishmore: the largest of the Aran Islands in Ireland The focus today on our Exploring Ireland tour was the island of Inishmore, (Inis Mór or Árainn in Irish), the largest of the Aran Islands. Geologically, they are a continuation ... Read More
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An ancient tomb at Poulnabrone in Ireland On our Exploring Ireland tour one of the regions we explore in detail is the Burren, the famous area of exposed limestone shelves that forms the northwestern section of County ... Read More
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Clonmacnoise monastery, a sacred place in the centre of Ireland Set on the banks of the broad majestic River Shannon, virtually at the geographic centre of Ireland, is a very sacred place, Clonmacnoise in County Offaly, a monastery founded by ... Read More
![Ancient Roman fresco wall panel from Pompeii showing Isis Fortuna protecting a man flanked by the agathodaemones (protective serpents), with painted message: CACATOR CAVE MALU[m], crapper beware the evil eye), dated 1st century AD, on display in the Archaeology Museum of Naples](https://www.petersommer.com/wp-content/uploads/Unorganized/Fortuna-c-Museo-Archeologico-Nazionale-di-Napoli-sq-768x669.jpg)
