You Had Me At Hello: Venice, Bali, Varanasi
This is the fourth post in the Travel Highlights series sharing some of the most enduring highlights of all our …
This is the fourth post in the Travel Highlights series sharing some of the most enduring highlights of all our …
9 Feb 2019 I’m standing on the station platform. The train doors are closing and are more than half shut …
5-8 February 2019 In December 1973, when I was 23 years old, I left Australia for the first time. The …
5-8 February 2019. I’d returned from a solo seven-week journey to Japan and China in early June 2018. The summer …
23-30 September 2015. In Greek it’s Hagia Sofia, meaning holy wisdom. In Turkish it’s Ayasofya. The Byzantine cathedral of Ayasofya …
22-29 September 2015. Somewhere in Istanbul. We are far from the usual tourist haunts, walking down a narrow cobbled street. …
21-29 September 2015. We go full circle in Turkey – from Istanbul to Ephesus, to the Mediterranean coast, to Pamukkale …
17-20 September 2015. 1. Strange and Spectacular Landscape: Cappadocia covers an area in central Turkey about 400 kilometres (250 m) …
17-20 September 2015. The phone alarm starts singing. I moan quietly then suddenly I’m wide awake. It is 3.30 in …
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down …
8-12 September 2015. I am angry and disappointed. We have walked a long way from the entrance and I can …
3-7 September 2015. It is an easy two-hour drive from Marmaris to Fethiye. We walk into our hotel room and …
31 Aug – 2 Sept 2015. Bodrum is near the end of a finger of land that juts out into …
26-30 August 2015. We fly from Istanbul to Izmir, some four hundred and eighty kilometres (300m) to the south, where …