David Paul Appell's Blog – December 2016 Archive (3)

Jaén, Spain: Not Just World Olive Oil Capital but a Cultural Treasure



One of my earliest memories of Spain – lo, these many years ago – was jumping a high school trip in Andalusia to visit (with permission of all concerned, of course) a pen pal in a somewhat isolated, provincial backwater – but one filled with venerable Renaissance…

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Added by David Paul Appell on December 19, 2016 at 12:21pm — No Comments

Mayan Sites of El Salvador, and the 'Pompeii of the Americas'





The allures of the tiny Central American country of El Salvador are still not all that well known beyond its borders.…

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Added by David Paul Appell on December 19, 2016 at 12:09pm — No Comments

Antwerp's a Boffo Belgian Bonanza



Yet another European city tracing its roots back to a settlement of the Roman Empire, the Flanders (Dutch Belgium) city of Antwerpen (Anvers in French) started coming into its own in the late 15th century, and by the 16th…

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Added by David Paul Appell on December 17, 2016 at 12:51pm — No Comments

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