Water Castles and Poor Service in Lower Saxony
This delectable Wasserschloss – literally ‘Water Castle’ – 12 kilometres to the east of Osnabruck in Lower Saxony is first mentioned in records in 1160 but it certainly goes back […]
Mad dogs and Englishmen in Osnabruck
Osnabruck is a great medieval town in Westphalia that goes all the way back to the days of Charlemagne. I was particularly interested in the old town hall or Rathaus, […]
Engels and Upside-Down Trains in Wuppertal
Wuppertal is a real delight, nestled as they say in a picturesque valley of Nordrhein Westfalen less than an hour from the great city of Essen. It’s famous for its […]
The Most Beautiful Fountain in Turkey
One of the most attractive aspects of Istanbul is the sheer number and variety of monumental fountains in the city. Each of them is a real work of art, encapsulating […]
Bridges and Bigots in London
I went for a meal at a Bengali restaurant on Butler’s Wharf alongside the Thames on Saturday night, for a friend’s wedding. His mum is Turkish, dad Bengali and wife […]
A Lust for Life in Lycia
Lycia is a region of Turkey in the southwest of the country, roughly between the bays of Antalya and Fethiye. It is one of the most fascinating parts of Anatolia, […]
City of the Heretic Pharaoh
The reign of the pharaoh Amenhotep IV is unique amongst those of other rulers in Egyptian history. He adopted the name Akhenaten when he took the throne, and rather than […]
Blizzards of blood at Towton
I’ve been obsessed with the Battle of Towton for as long as I can remember. On Palm Sunday 1461, outside the Yorkshire village of that name, Lancastrian and Yorkist forces […]
Fans for the memories
This summer I dropped in to the Sakip Sabanci Museum in Istanbul to see an exhibition which is the first of its kind in Turkey. It included a rare and […]
Cool calligraphy in Istanbul
Istanbul is the capital of the exquisitely fine art of Islamic calligraphy. In Ottoman times there were hundreds of libraries here, but the city was and still is a library […]
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