Honey, honey, honey – it seemed Adygea oozed the stuff. Everywhere we looked it seemed someone had set up a road-side stall …
-
-
Our Indonesian guide, with a parang (machete) in hand, dropped vertically in front of me, just brushing my face, while out of …
-
In all my outings in Mongolia, I never saw a wolf – I only heard them howling while camping out one night …
-
Those who know me will know that I can recount more than my share of what are commonly known as ‘ghost experiences’. …
-
Curio Bay - New Zealand's Jurassic Fossil Forest
How Much Carbon Dioxide was in the Atmosphere of New Zealand’s Jurassic Curio Bay Fossil Forest?
How do you figure out how much carbon dioxide was in the atmosphere millions of years ago? In the Jurassic, the fossil …
-
I admit it, I was lurking in the back streets of ‘Old Tartarstan’, Kazan. Trouble is, I like old buildings, and particularly …
-
In about 2014 some genius decided to plant a peacock in front of the Kazan Kremlin. Kazan is the currently the capital …
-
In Nanjing I waited for the Goldilocks time, not too cold, not too hot – to walk the entire Nanjing City Walls. The …
-
History/ArchaeologyTravel
Fifty, 500, or 5,000 years old? Ancient cultural landscape in the hills of Central Turkey
‘Fox-holes’ perhaps? Did snipers crouch in these to fire down on an enemy below? What were these little rings of rocks strategically …
-
A meal in CoCoCo, a top St Petersburg restaurant? One featured in an episode of TV chef Anthony Bourdain? Would I be …