Antalya Archaeological Museum
This museum used to be a bit of a dump, one of those monolithic Turkish state-controlled institutions where none of the exhibit labels were written in English, in fact many […]
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Mezquita of Cordoba
Cordoba’s great mosque, the Mezquita, was built in 786 and personifies the power of Islam on the peninsula at that time. Many different architectural forms were embodied in the mosque […]
A romantic Turkish castle
Alara Castle is just a few miles along the coast road from Alanya on the Pamphylian coast of Mediterranean Turkey, then inland a bit. The roads become dirst tracks pretty […]
Most relaxed shark
Occasionally you hear something on the radio during the interminable school run that really lifts your spirits. Oblomov, the famous 19th century Russian novel by Goncharov, has as its hero […]
Great day out at Woodhorn Colliery near Newcastle
I had the great pleasure of visiting Woodhorn a couple of weeks ago. It’s an award winning, beautifully preserved colliery that closed in 1981 and is now a great visitor […]
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