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This week’s photo- Abba poster, Frankfurt
I had a 10-hour layover in Frankfurt a few years back so I decided to leave the airport and take a walk (and a bus) into town for the heck of it. Not quite sure where this was exactly but I saw this...
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Roman trails
I had walked right smack into an Italian tussle. Two gladiators were brandishing swords and shouting at each other. The taller man, who was particularly loud, looked as though he was ready to eat...
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Turkish delights
You know you’re in a really great country when your tummy loves the local food and doesn’t yearn at all for KFC, Burger King or McDonald’s. For me, this great place was Turkey. I love Turkish food....
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Cappadocia
We’re not on Earth anymore, I told an invisible Toto inside my head. All around me were spires and hills of volcanic rock, some standing on their own, some in clusters, but all touched by the rain...
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The Best of 2011
Every Friday, the travel community on Twitter holds #FriFotos and this week, the theme is ‘Best of 2011′. The past 12 months were pretty quiet for me but I’ve started to make plans for next year, which...
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This week’s photo: Shaman tree, Olkhon Island
There is probably no place more sacred in Siberia than Olkhon Island, the largest island in Lake Baikal. The Buryats, the indigenous people of Siberia, are followers of shamanism and consider Olkhon...
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En route to pizza
We met Paolo- wavy-haired, scruffy and broke- at Paris Austerlitz train station. Aida and I were checking train schedules when he walked up to us with sad, pleading eyes. “I have no money to go home....
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Turkey, part deux
Later this month I’ll be going to Turkey, and it will be my second time there. I don’t normally make it a habit of visiting a country more than once, but this time it’s unavoidable. The reason I’m...
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This week’s photo: String instruments, Istanbul
Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar has been around for centuries. It opened in 1461 and by the 1800s had more than 3,000 stores selling an incredible variety of items, thanks to merchants coming in from the...
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Solitude
I was alone, and yet I wasn’t. Two of my friends had just walked past, their heads stuck in a map, oblivious to their surroundings, and I liked it. I liked it that they hadn’t noticed me at all. It...
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