Places, sights & adventures
Travel, stories about places, people who lived amazing adventures.
Collection by Martina Pugliese
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In Praise of Talking to Strangers
6 min read · Feb 27th · We don't expect interactions with strangers to go well, but travel opens us up - and there's a catharsis to conversation...
Reader View · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
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Meet The Women Who Spent 19 Months Alone in the Arctic
7 min read · Mar 13th · Hearts of Ice is a conservation project started by Hilde Fålun Strøm and Sunniva Sorby, two women who spent 19 months in a remote Arctic cabin.
Reader View · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
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A Walk Down The Abandoned Winter Olympic Bobsleigh Track in Sarajevo
6 min read · Feb 27th · A site of Winter Olympic glory and unity in 1984, the bobsleigh track in Sarajevo became a crucial artillery site in the Bosnian War eight years later.
Reader View · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
Guardian Cities
Story of cities #5: Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without trace
9 min read · From 2016 · With its mathematical layout and earthworks longer than the Great Wall of China, Benin City was one of the best planned cities in the world when London was a place of ‘thievery and murder’. So why is nothing left?
Reader View · Shared by 24, including Martina Pugliese, Graham Marshall, timoreilly
syriauntold.com
The forgotten railways of Syria and Lebanon: Tales of a missed connection
~18 min read · Jan 7th · For nearly a century, a bustling railway network connected people in Syria and Lebanon to the world—and to one another. Amid violence and economic collapse on both sides of the border, can a few…
Reader View · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
52 Places to Love in 2021
20+ min read · 2021-01-08 · We asked readers to tell us about the spots that have delighted, inspired and comforted them in a dark year. Here, 52 of the more than 2,000 suggestions we received, to remind us that the world still…
Reader View · Shared by 32, including Martina Pugliese, nuuk, Boas Ruh, Chris O'Brien
BBC Future
The Ancient Persian way to keep cool
7 min read · 2021-08-11 · From Ancient Egypt to the Persian Empire, an ingenious method of catching the breeze kept people cool for millennia. Now, it could come to our aid once again.
Reader View · Shared by 170, including Esther Schindler, Nicolas Babin #AmazonPartner, Marcos, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
With More Freedom, Young Women in Albania Shun Tradition of ‘Sworn Virgins’
8 min read · 2021-08-08 · A centuries-old tradition in which women declared themselves men so they could enjoy male privilege is dying out as young women have more options available to them to live their own lives.
Reader View · Shared by 27, including Grzegorz Wapiński, Martina Pugliese, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Anne Helen Petersen
The New York Times
Capri and Procida: A Tale of Two Islands
~13 min read · 2021-06-30 · As Italy reopens to tourists, glamorous Capri and its quieter, grittier sister, Procida, prepare — with joy and trepidation — for an influx of visitors.
Reader View · Shared by 8, including Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
Surviving in Isolation, Where the Steppe Has Turned to Sand
5 min read · 2021-05-10 · In the Russian republic of Kalmykia, the encroaching desert has transformed the landscape. “Nature,” one farmer said, “is forcing us to leave.”
Reader View · Shared by 11, including Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
The World Through a Lens
2020-12-29 · With travel restrictions in place worldwide, we’re turning to photojournalists who can help transport you, virtually, to some of our planet’s most beautiful and intriguing places.
Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
Revisiting the Unseen Corners of the World
10 min read · 2020-12-28 · During a year with limited travel possibilities, our World Through a Lens series offered Times readers a weekly escape. Here are some of the highlights.
Reader View · Shared by 5, including Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
In a Village of Widows, the Opium Trade Has Taken a Deadly Toll
6 min read · 2020-12-27 · Afghan men in an impoverished border settlement die trying to smuggle opium into Iran, leaving behind loved ones forced to survive on their own.
Reader View · Shared by 10, including Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
An Elixir From the French Alps, Frozen in Time
9 min read · 2020-12-17 · Only two monks know the full recipe for Chartreuse, and even in the pandemic they stuck to their Middle Ages motto: “The cross is steady while the world turns.”
Reader View · Shared by 44, including Shanna Peeples she/her 🏳️🌈, Felix M, Scott Monty, Martina Pugliese, Chris O'Brien, John Schwartz, Kevin M. Kruse, Dr Becca, PhD 🐘
The New York Times
Have a Look at the Fabled Honey Forest
6 min read · 2020-11-21 · In northeastern Turkey, the beekeeping traditions of the Hemshin people, an ethnic minority originating from Armenia, are both evolving and at risk of vanishing.
Reader View · Shared by 7, including Martina Pugliese
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The Problem With Scratch Maps & The World View They Bestow
6 min read · 2020-10-09 · The way that scratch maps encourage people to talk about travel has long irked me. Here's why the mentality they encourage is a problematic one for travel.
Reader View · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
