Travel

On March 21, 2011  I was sent to do a job in the far south-east of Turkey.  Me and Erol, my indispensable …

At Ship Creek, just a few kilometers north of Haast, in South Westland, New Zealand, there is a wonderful boardwalk though an …

Rainforest in Georgia? (as in Georgistan, Black Sea, by the way, not as in ‘Good-Old-Boys’). I saw it marked on a Wikipedia map and …

The fossils are clear – just a few million years ago Europe was covered in broad-leaved, evergreen forest. There were palm trees …

In Poland there are any number of subjects that might make good postcards, Polish girls perhaps. But decaying logs?  In the far …

Part way along the Kawarau River between Cromwell and Queenstown (Central Otago, New Zealand) is a feature known to Maori as ‘Whatatorere’ (Kaumatua …

When an entire landscape loses its forests, it can be so complete that most of us would have no comprehension of what …

Most Australians and many tourists will be aware of a prominent topographic feature not too far from the east coast. For example, …

Late 1984, I was booted out of Denmark and hit the next ferry to Puttgarden  (this was a condition of the local …