I've been writing articles for the local monthly newsletter for just over a year now, about everywhere I've traveled, the one I recently wrote about Turkey had to be broken in two, so I thought I'd put it online if someone reading the first half wants to find the second half, so here it is ( Read more... )

October 4th, Istanbul - This day began with a bit of a panic. Five hundred people were milling around in front of the conference building, there were a rumoured 14 busses coming along to pick us up for the technical tours, miraculously people formed into a giant single file line without even being told, and got their tickets out and... wait, what ( Read more... )

I was walking to passport control when it happened. Was looking at my phone looking up the details of my next flight so I don't know if he'd been standing there scanning the crowd or watched me long, but I was first aware of a young man quickly stepping into my path and then a badge being shoved into my view with the word "POLIS" emblazoned on it ( Read more... )

I. Prologue   This chapter must necessarily begin on a rooftop in The Faraway Land. Not a forgotten dirty rooftop with evil-looking air conditioning machinery, but a comfortable rooftop covered in carpets, bathed in warm lighting, sheltered by a canopy, inhabited by low couches.
   I'd just returned from the tombs, where quite out of the blue, ( Read more... )

Thursday, August 29th
   I hoist myself out of the seawater and up the corroded metal ladder. The rungs have completely rusted away just about a foot under the gently lapping waves, so I can only kick my feet in the water until I'm high enough to get a foot on the lowest existent rung. About seven feet above the water I clamber onto the small ( Read more... )

   okay I'm now five months behind on updating on the last Turkey trip! Better continue!


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