Dick Caldwell's Sporades Cultural Tours of Greece and Turkey

    Sporades Tours is not like other tour companies, and our tours are not like other tours. They're intended for a small (but not too small), select (but not elite) group of people who don't want to be rushed or regimented, patronized or pampered, who are interested in not only what has survived from the past but why it has survived, who are curious about what is happening now as well as 3,000 years ago, who want a tour guide who has spent a lifetime studying the past, its artefacts and their meaning (and knows where the best restaurants are).
       In short, these are tours for people who don't want the usual sort of tours; they might, and often do, travel on their own, but why not enjoy the same flexibility and ease with a group of congenial, reasonably intelligent, often laid-back but fairly adventurous fellow travellers — and at the same time avoid the logistical problems ("Hillary, you've got the map upside down") and even occasional isolation that independent travel might entail?
      Our tours are comprehensive but comfortable, varied but relaxed. We go to all the famous places, and to just as many that are unknown (but often even more interesting).
      We stay in fine hotels, always in the best location and with private bath, usually air-conditioned, and sometimes elegant. Our dinners are in the best local restaurants, where you can order whatever you want.
      And even if you don't have to get up every morning at 6 am, you can stay as long as you want at museums, dinners, archaeological sites, and beaches. Every year over a third of our clients are return customers. Does that tell you something?
      And here are some things no other tours do. You don't have to pay until you arrive (except for a refundable deposit to secure your place), and even then you pay only for the number of nights you stay. You can combine part or all of one tour with part or all of another, and you can stay from one day to all summer. It's your choice!

Dick Caldwell's SPORADES TOURS 2008 Tours to Greece and Turkey "for people who don't like tours"
Professor Emeritus of Classics, USC (other positions at the Universities of Minnesota, Texas, and Colorado), consultant to Disney's "Hercules," author of Hesiod's Theogony, The Origin of the Gods, Vergil's Aeneid, and dozens of articles on subjects ancient and modern. All tours to Greece and Turkey are led by Dick, an ex-hockey player, founder of Sporades Tours, and Professor of Classics at USC from 1976 until his retirement in 1999. In 1975 Dick taught Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Medical School (the subtitle of his book The Origin of the Gods is "A Psychoanalytic Study of Greek Theogonic Myth"). He has written many books and articles about antiquity (and other subjects) and he has been taking people on unconventional tours to the eastern Mediterranean for 25 consecutive years. He is (for what it's worth) the world's leading authority on the psychoanalytic study of antiquity, he knows (and will tell you) the secret meaning of all the Greek myths, he speaks modern Greek, some Turkish, and hardly any Arabic, and he claims to know everyone in Greece and Turkey. WHY SHOULD YOU GO ON A SPORADES TOUR?
This is what Dick says:	This is what tour participants say:
WHAT IS SPORADES TOURS? Sporades Tours is not like other tour companies, and our tours are not like other tours. They're intended for a small (but not too small), select (but not elite) group of people who don't want to be rushed or regimented, patronized or pampered, who are interested in not only what has survived from the past but why it has survived, who are curious about what is happening now as well as 3,000 years ago, who want a tour guide who has spent a lifetime studying the past, its artefacts and their meaning (and knows where the best restaurants are). In short, these are tours for people who don't want the usual sort of tours; they might, and often do, travel on their own, but why not enjoy the same flexibility and ease with a group of congenial, reasonably intelligent, often laid-back but fairly adventurous fellow travellers — and at the same time avoid the logistical problems ("Hillary, you've got the map upside down") and even occasional isolation that independent travel might entail? Our tours are comprehensive but comfortable, varied but relaxed. We go to all the famous places, and to just as many that are unknown (but often even more interesting). We stay in fine hotels, always in the best location and with private bath, usually air-conditioned, and sometimes elegant. Our dinners are in the best local restaurants, where you can order whatever you want. And even if you don't have to get up every morning at 6 am, you can stay as long as you want at museums, dinners, archaeological sites, and beaches. Every year over a third of our clients are return customers. Does that tell you something? And here are some things no other tours do. You don't have to pay until you arrive (except for a refundable deposit to secure your place), and even then you pay only for the number of nights you stay. You can combine part or all of one tour with part or all of another, and you can stay from one day to all summer. It's your choice! SPORADES TOURS 2008 This is the Schedule for 2008. For information about discounts, and for detailed information about the places we will be visiting, please contact me through this form.
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