Travel

India, love it or hate it, so they say. Rajastan was getting me down. Its sights are amazing, but along those well-trodden …

Tourism – good thing or bad? I’ve written about Develi before –a town in central Turkey, where I was based, along with …

Over ten years ago I taught visiting American classes at the University of Queensland. The itinerary of one lucky class was to …

The French woman had parted the curtains, and was peering out into the stormy night. *** There are up-sides and down-sides to …

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’. …

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 …