Posted on November 9, 2009 in Community Highlights
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, its segments have arrived in cities around the world to stand at embassies and museums, on campuses and waterfronts, in hotels and corporate collections. Here, members recommend places for viewing a piece in person... Continue reading 20 Years Later, Where to Visit the Berlin Wall
Posted on November 3, 2009 in Community Highlights
In three new journals from a trip that encompassed both Ireland and Northern Ireland, IgoUgo foursome travelswithkids does Dublin on a budget, explores modern history in Londonderry, and traipses through ruins older than the Great Pyramid of Giza... Continue reading How One Family Toured Ireland and Traced Ancestors
Posted on July 21, 2009 in Community Highlights
We love travel confessions, especially when they benefit other travelers. And when BawBaw says, “Okay, I admit it: my little family is absolutely smug about its intimacy with the Smithsonian,” she’s also saying that she’s an expert on the museums... Continue reading BawBaw Spreads the Love for DC's Free Museums
Posted on July 9, 2009 in Community Highlights
In a tale as old as time, France has captured the hearts of three lovely ladies of IgoUgo. They fell for fairy-tale lanes in the East, châteaux with checkered histories in the Loire Valley, and harbor towns in the West. Luckily, it’s a tell-all tale... Continue reading The Best of France with phileasfogg, Kez & Fiver29
Posted on June 11, 2009 in Community Highlights
Among the attractions tvordj has reviewed since her recent trip to England, one stands out for its bleakness, er, uniqueness: the so-called “plague village” of Eyam. Despite its darkly fascinating history, tvordj found it to be a “very pretty” place... Continue reading The Prettiest Plague Village tvordj's Ever Seen
Posted on May 29, 2009 in Community Highlights
For his first journal in a year, Mutt presents “Ankara: One Man’s Dream.” So, naturally, we thought he’d been busy on an unusual (and, for him, seemingly easy) quest to visit Ankara. Not so; the title dreamer is actually Turkey’s founder... Continue reading A Dream Tour of Ankara, Turkey
Posted on March 27, 2009 in Community Highlights
Two longtime IgoUgo members return to writing with different takes on Peru, while a third expands his authoritative travel journal on the Maya ruins of Mexico... Continue reading Romance and Ruins in Peru and Mexico
Posted on February 25, 2009 in Community Highlights
After well over 100 IgoUgo journals, we thought we knew Hall of Famer Wildcat Dianne. But who knew she was a history major in college? The traveling historian used two recent trips to Atlanta to explore three of America’s most important sites... Continue reading Wildcat Dianne's Atlanta Visits Are History