Venezuela is a country in South America. Having a shoreline along the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, Venezuela borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east and Brazil to the south, and is situated on the major sea and air routes linking North and South America. Off the Venezuelan coast are the…
Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα, Elláda) is a country in Southern Europe, on the southernmost tip of the Balkan peninsula, with extensive coastlines and islands in the Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean Seas. It shares borders in the north with Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Turkey. It has an ancient culture that has had a significant influence on…
Argentina, (Spanish: República Argentina) is a large, elongated country in the southern part of South America, neighbouring countries being Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay to the north, Uruguay to the north east and Chile to the west. In the east Argentina has a long South Atlantic Ocean coastline.
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Argentina (officially the Argentine Republic) is the eighth-largest…
Peru is a country in South America, situated on the western side of that continent, facing the South Pacific Ocean and straddling part of the Andes mountain range that runs the length of South America. Peru is bordered by Ecuador and Colombia to the north, Brazil and Bolivia to the east, and Chile to the…
Mexico (Spanish: México), is a fascinating country in North America, lying between the United States of America to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast. Its extensive coastlines of more than 10,000km include the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. Mexico has…
Texas known as the "Lone Star State" is the second largest and second most populous state in the South in United States of America. Owing to its remarkable size, distinctive culture and politics, and colorful history, many Texans maintain a fiercely independent attitude, with Texan identity often superseding American identity. Few other American states…
Wilton, in South Wiltshire, was once the capital of the ancient kingdom of Wessex.
Life’s a long song. If you wait then your plate I will fill.
“I shoulda stood in bed”
As Anthony Bourdain once said: “I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.”
This isn’t a fairytale. …
We love writing about history. It's like an onion, where the more you peel, the more you find the prize. And we are well and truly blessed nowadays to have history at our fingertips, at the end of a remote control. Discovering new editions of historical topics is one of the best…
OK, so you may fancy yourself as the all-seeing and all-knowing. You've been places. You've seen things. You know stuff. You impress your friends. But, as is always the case, there are some places where you just can't tread, where your arcane knowledge takes a back seat. And, worst…
Some visual eye-candy that, without words, will speak for itself. Sit down with a big glass of Montepulciano and plan your next trip to the city of mirrors.
Looking for your next travel destination? Are you a music fan? Do you like to mix the two, maybe with a little ganja and history? Well, we have the perfect combination for you. You've probably guessed it - it's Jamaica. You know it - the Caribbean island nation, that has a…
The more that we continue to work on Matouring, the more we realise how much "world" is out there. That may sound rather simplistic, but even in these modern days of being "connected" 24x7, we are still bedazzled at how much we haven't yet seen, and we've been to many, many places. We've…
We won't spend too much time discussing the dimensions of our beloved planet Earth. That's something that we all should have learned when we were supposedly learning things in school. It's big, to say the least. (OK, we guessed that you would want to know: Earth's circumference is the distance around…
...and here's your towel.
Here's another installment in our ongoing series of stories, images and, well, anything we can find related to travel, you and James Bond. Again, you'll probably need to be of a certain age in order to really get thrilled by the world's most famous spy, but to us, the franchise…
Who doesn't love fun parks? And who doesn't love Japan? So imagine a fun park in Japan! It's a natural fit. And we have the OSAKA e-Pass available to you for non-stop fun. Enjoy direct entry to Universal Studios Japan™’s 60+ attractions! Experience the thrill of the world’s # 1 ride…
If there ever was a man that we should all listen to, it would certainly be Sir David Attenborough. This jewel of a human being has been slowly, methodically and gently letting us errant knuckledraggers know that the planet is on borrowed time, and that we had better pay attention. And, as part of this…