Category: History

Church of Mary Jerusalem

Seeking Peace in Jerusalem

To visit Jerusalem is to visit the whole world in a single step: it seems, during our three weeks in Israel, that we have studied all of history as it has played out on this tiny patch of …

Santorini Views

Following the Footsteps of Odysseus

After the Pyramids of Giza and the Valley of the Kings, in June we travelled forward about a thousand years in time, to visit ancient sites in Greece. During this time, I was reading The Odyssey for school, and …