Travel

One of the beauties of modern archaeological technique is the ability to analyse ancient battle, or massacre sites, in a forensic way. …

I like to see things for myself. It can give me a sense of place or scale that one doesn’t get from …

So where the heck is Smyrna? I’d heard a little about the awful days of 1922, but despite having made a few …

Last week I checked my email, to find that I had been nominated for the Content Catnip award for Most Interesting Blog …

Seven months of travelling nearly done, and I’m siting in a plane, about to watch a documentary on Martin Phillipps of ‘The …

The passport control officer at Minsk Airport seemed genuinely shocked to see me (well, OK, I can have that effect on people). …

My first impression of Odesa was not good. It was back in 2006 when I was merely transiting on the way to …

“Only First-Class!” Well darn, that wasn’t in the script – there were no other berths on the train from Poltava to Odesa. …

“We’ll follow these guys – they’re three local hoodlums”, This from my local guide on Omatepe Island, Nicaragua. I was sitting behind …

The first Salvadorean who I asked about visiting his country advised me to avoid its capital, San Salvador, entirely. “I love my …