In the Buff
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 …
Category: Underway
The Only Guide to Turkey You’ll Ever Need
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 …
Whirling Dervishes
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 …
The Assault on Mount Nemrut
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, …
A Borderlands Quatrain
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 …
Photos: Georgia
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 …
Midnight in Georgia
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 …
Georgia Bound
Position: 41°31’12″N 41°32’52″E On a whim we decided to ditch Trabzon’s unseasonably cold, wet weather and head to Georgia. Where the weather was even colder. Given our planning skills we felt more than prepared after a couple of Google clicks. …
Black Sea Strolls
Position: 40°59’44″N 39°44’47″E Amasra If Turkey’s southern Taurus mountains are a series of giant crested waves, then they’ve crashed and run out in the roiling hills and tumultuous folds here on the northern edge of the country. Near Istanbul the …