In about 2014 some genius decided to plant a peacock in front of the Kazan Kremlin. Kazan is the currently the capital …
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October 2017
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In Nanjing I waited for the Goldilocks time, not too cold, not too hot – to walk the entire Nanjing City Walls. The …
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Archaeology, History & Culture
Fifty, 500, or 5,000 years old? Ancient cultural landscape in the hills of Central Turkey
by Mike Poleby Mike Pole‘Fox-holes’ perhaps? Did snipers crouch in these to fire down on an enemy below? What were these little rings of rocks strategically …
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Autobiography & Travel
In the Footsteps of Anthony Bourdain: Restaurant CoCoCo in St Petersburg, Russia
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleA meal in CoCoCo, a top St Petersburg restaurant? One featured in an episode of TV chef Anthony Bourdain? Would I be …