Ancient Grace: the cathedral and town of Chartres
9 Feb 2019 I’m standing on the station platform. The train doors are closing and are more than half shut …
Category Archives: Europe
Paris is always a good idea. Stories of a brief winter sojourn
5-8 February 2019 In December 1973, when I was 23 years old, I left Australia for the first time. The …
Winter In The City of Light – ordinary and extraordinary Paris
5-8 February 2019. I’d returned from a solo seven-week journey to Japan and China in early June 2018. The summer …
Iconic Istanbul: the Grand Bazaar, the Spice Market, and Ayasofya
23-30 September 2015. In Greek it’s Hagia Sofia, meaning holy wisdom. In Turkish it’s Ayasofya. The Byzantine cathedral of Ayasofya …
A Mosque, Some Mosaics, and a Whole Lot of Raw Meat: the streets of Istanbul
22-29 September 2015. Somewhere in Istanbul. We are far from the usual tourist haunts, walking down a narrow cobbled street. …
Istanbul: Topkapi Palace and other beauties
21-29 September 2015. We go full circle in Turkey – from Istanbul to Ephesus, to the Mediterranean coast, to Pamukkale …
Seven Things To Discover in Cappadocia
17-20 September 2015. 1. Strange and Spectacular Landscape: Cappadocia covers an area in central Turkey about 400 kilometres (250 m) …
Exploring On The Moon: the magical landscape of Cappadocia, Turkey
17-20 September 2015. The phone alarm starts singing. I moan quietly then suddenly I’m wide awake. It is 3.30 in …
Dancing on the edge of time. Konya, Turkey
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down …
It’s better to have no expectations: Pamukkale and Kaklik Cave, Turkey
8-12 September 2015. I am angry and disappointed. We have walked a long way from the entrance and I can …
Cruising Turkey: Fethiye and Antalya
3-7 September 2015. It is an easy two-hour drive from Marmaris to Fethiye. We walk into our hotel room and …
Blue Water World: Marmaris and the Dalyan River, Turkey
31 Aug – 2 Sept 2015. Bodrum is near the end of a finger of land that juts out into …
The Blue Aegean and its Ancient Wonders: Turkey’s Ephesus and Bodrum
26-30 August 2015. We fly from Istanbul to Izmir, some four hundred and eighty kilometres (300m) to the south, where …
A City Divided – Istanbul on the Bosphorus
21-27 September 2015. There are two entrances to our hotel in Goreme, in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, both with …
Adventures in Wonderland 