DATELINE: KOS, JUNETEENTH-ISH 2022 Not all is quiet on Turkey’s western front. Patience inside the country is running short, while tensions with Greece are running high. Couple that with falling tourism, the strange brew that makes peace in this region …
Position: 36°49’11″N 28°18’25″E Sometime in my early 50s I grew bored with social media. My kids knew as soon as I opened a Facebook account the platform was done for – at least as far as their generation was concerned. …
Position: 36°49’11″N 28°18’25″E With Carol back from swanning around Europe with friends and family, and my return from the hardscrabble world of consulting in the United States, it is time to grease our elbows and get down to the work …
Whether you have always yearned to explore the most European of Asian countries, or the idea of a trip to Istanbul on a whim just entered your head, this guide will tell you everything you need to know for a …
Position: 37°52’09″N 32°30’58″E Based on my recent survey (p2) 100% of kids growing up in 1960s America were called ‘whirling dervishes’ by their exhausted parents. Given the excellence of international studies in America’s grades K-3 we of course assumed a …
Position: 37°58’52″N 38°44’30″E The last time we attempted a visit to the moais of Mount Nemrut, we ended up slipping on ice and backing down the road. It was late enough in the day that walking up wasn’t practical. So, …
Position: 39°33’19″N 44°03’57″E An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: for loving a true love. Legs: to run after. – Rumi There are ghosts out here on …
Position: 41°55’33″N 45°29’08″E Cat pee. That’s what Simcoe hops taste like, cat pee. Their powerful, unmistakable flavour is typically added at the end of fermentation to give an IPA an added ‘oomph’. Sipping the first true craft beers we’d had …
Position: 41°41’17″N 44°48’15″E There is an abandoned railway line that runs alongside the road between Tbilisi and Telavi. The gantries that carried the electric power are still there. Some are broken, their big glass resistors dangling low over the middle …
