‘A rose red city half as old as time’, as the Anglican cleric John Burgon famously described Petra […]
Category: Travel
I arrived in Amman last night after a day of flying and waiting in airports. First Larnaca – […]
I spent Thursday (Oct 31) in Larnaca on the south coast (the Greek side) of Cyprus before heading […]
One last post of pics taken on our first two days in Beirut. The featured photo at the […]
On Monday October 29 we paid Hassam $US100 (see pic again below) to drive us south through Echmoun […]
I used to love this revolution (which is what the locals are calling it, not the mere ‘protests’ […]
Beirut is the first stop in my Middle Eastern gallivant. Never been here before. By late November, insha’allah, […]
Today is the last day of my gallivant. I fly from Colombo to Melbourne tonight. The plane leaves […]
Here I am, waiting for my brekkie on the verandah of the Castlereagh Villa, one of the restored […]
Flew out of Dharamshala on Saturday from this cute little airport in this cute little plane, and I […]