Places, sights & adventures
Travel, stories about places, people who lived amazing adventures.
Collection by Martina Pugliese
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50 Amazing Color Photographs Capture Street Scenes of New York City in the 1970s
4 min · · The New York City of the 1970s looked very different from the gentrified metropolis we know today. The Bowery, now lined with luxury apartme... · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
muchbetteradventures.com
The Dark History of Namibia’s Abandoned Diamond Town
5 min · · Once of the richest communities in Africa, the buildings of Kolmanskop have now been reclaimed by the Namib Desert... · Shared by 5, including Martina Pugliese
muchbetteradventures.com
In Praise of Talking to Strangers
6 min · · We don't expect interactions with strangers to go well, but travel opens us up - and there's a catharsis to conversation... · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
muchbetteradventures.com
Meet The Women Who Spent 19 Months Alone in the Arctic
7 min · · 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. · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
muchbetteradventures.com
A Walk Down The Abandoned Winter Olympic Bobsleigh Track in Sarajevo
6 min · · 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. · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
The Guardian
Story of cities #5: Benin City, the mighty medieval capital now lost without trace
9 min · · 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? · Shared by 26, including Martina Pugliese, Graham Marshall, Tim O'Reilly
syriauntold.com
The forgotten railways of Syria and Lebanon: Tales of a missed connection
18+ min · · 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… · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
52 Places to Love in 2021
20+ min · · 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… · Shared by 32, including Martina Pugliese, Icefox, Boas Ruh, Chris O'Brien
BBC News (World)
The Ancient Persian way to keep cool
7 min · · 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. · Shared by 173, including Esther Schindler, Nicolas Babin, Marcos, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
With More Freedom, Young Women in Albania Shun Tradition of ‘Sworn Virgins’
8 min · · 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. · Shared by 27, including @grzewap@mastodon.social, Martina Pugliese, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Anne Helen Petersen
The New York Times
Capri and Procida: A Tale of Two Islands
13+ min · · As Italy reopens to tourists, glamorous Capri and its quieter, grittier sister, Procida, prepare — with joy and trepidation — for an influx of visitors. · Shared by 8, including Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
Surviving in Isolation, Where the Steppe Has Turned to Sand
5 min · · In the Russian republic of Kalmykia, the encroaching desert has transformed the landscape. “Nature,” one farmer said, “is forcing us to leave.” · Shared by 12, including Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
The World Through a Lens
· 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 · · 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. · 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 · · Afghan men in an impoverished border settlement die trying to smuggle opium into Iran, leaving behind loved ones forced to survive on their own. · Shared by 10, including Martina Pugliese
The New York Times
An Elixir From the French Alps, Frozen in Time
9 min · · 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.” · Shared by 44, including @ShannaPeeples@mastodon.nl, Felix M, Scott Monty, Martina Pugliese, Chris O'Brien, John Schwartz, Kevin M. Kruse, Dr Becca, PhD 🐘