Earlier this year, before her 1st birthday, my daughter had the opportunity to visit the real home of Santa Claus.
Category: Holidays
Holidays
Top Three European Christmas Destinations
Christmas in Europe is delightful, no matter where you go. The marriage of old world charm with unique traditions makes for a lovely holiday.
Happy Halloween from Vagobond
To celebrate Halloween I offer you some of the odd and scary things I have found in my travels this year from monsters to concentration camps.
Mummified Love in Andong, South Korea
The story of an ancient Korean mummy and his heartbroken wife hit me hard as I traveled and thought of my wife at home, pregnant with our first child.
The Night Marchers – Scary Creatures and Ghosts in Hawaii
Hawaiian moms have been known to threaten to leave their children out for the night marchers if they don’t behave. While this threat may not sound terrifying to those who have never heard of the huaki’ po, these death dealing ghosts are among the most terrifying of the ghosts and ghouls in Hawaiian myth and…
The Gulf of Volos – Ancient Sea of the Golden Fleece, Centaurs, and Gods
Greek Sailing, Centaurs, and Vagobond.
Cela Kula – Nis, Serbia’s Skull Tower
I will probably be executed by Serbs for this, but I couldn’t help feeling a little bit of admiration for the Turks when I learned the story of the Skull Tower in Nis, Serbia. It is called Cela Kula in Serbian which means…”Skull Tower”.
Turkey’s Seamonster of Lake Van
In honor of Halloween, I present to you the only legenary monster story I have thus far been able to unearth in Turkey – the Seamonster of Lake Van
Beyond the Ghosts – Grave Tourism in Lynchberg, Virginia
There are tombstone tourists who plan vacations around the resting places of Hollywood stars and military gravers who track down Civil War soldiers.
The Hermit of Sefrou, Djinn, and Aisha Kandisha
Way back in 2009, I was geeking out on Tarot cards and trying to find my way in life – at the same time I was living in Morocco and suddenly steeped in the mysticism, legends, monsters, and stories of daily Moroccan life. That was when I wrote this while sitting in the blue depths…