Gods, Men and Goats – Duzgun Baba
It looked as if a large meteorite had crashed into a herd of goats, whose disintegrating bodies had spattered it with blood and whose only recognisable remains were hundreds of […]
Category Archives: Turkey
Ankara: A city of contrasts
Turkey’s capital is as different from Istanbul as you could imagine. Istanbul is like a decrepit dowager aunt, clad in a dress that might have been in fashion a few […]
The past comes to life in Ephesus
Ephesus is one of the great ruined cities of the world, a truly breathtaking pile of marble that makes you wonder at the artistic aspirations, as well as the organisational […]
Evangelicals and pagan goddesses in Selcuk
With Selcuk (pronounced Seljuk) and Ephesus both within a twenty-minute drive of my hotel – the excellent Tusan Beach Resort in Kusadasi – this summer I was pretty much spoilt […]
On the tiles in Iznik
Located next to a large lake – Iznik Gol – and formerly a capital of the Byzantines, Iznik still marinades in memories of its glory days. Under the Ottomans, it […]
Handmade Houses and Voivodes in Yenisehir
It’s always a bad idea to call anything the new one. ‘New’ castle is about a thousand years old now, and the one it presumably replaced shortly after the Norman […]
Pompous and Forgotten in a Mediterranean Grave
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. (Sir Thomas Browne – Urne Burial) 6km eastward along the Mersin-Antalya coastal road, beyond the great […]
