What is Gallipoli?
World War I is ancient history. It passed from living memory with the death of the last veteran this year. It’s not a “good” war...
World War I is ancient history. It passed from living memory with the death of the last veteran this year. It’s not a “good” war...
Climb inside a pyramid. Hold dinosaur bones. Dive an undersea volcano. Walk on the Great Wall of China. Roll down a sand dune. Surf on...
I wasn’t, honestly, going to let my spawn leave Turkey without inflicting Troy on him. I’m still in a strop with myself for missing Baalbek...
“Bwahahaha,” I say. “Did you know the Chinese for ‘writer’ is, literally, ‘sit-at-home’?” “No,” says Zac. “NOOB! The ‘zuo’ in ‘zuo-jia’ is a different kind...
I started this blog back in January 2010. Zac was nine. We were going travelling for a year. And this is what he looked like...
Dear reader, I’ve just wasted a quarter of an hour of my life watching that video. Yes, that one. And I still cannot believe how...
One of remarkably few downsides to travelling with my son is, well, markets. I like nothing better than wandering around local markets looking at what’s...
by Theodora · Published September 8, 2012 · Last modified September 18, 2012
“I don’t know where that is,” says the guy, poring over the address I’ve hand-copied. “Just walk.” “Walk?!” I say. I mean, I know we’re...
by Theodora · Published September 7, 2012 · Last modified February 12, 2019
Our cunning flat plans don’t go entirely, ahem, to plan – there are any number of reasons why a flat might appear as available on...
We leave Cappadocia with, as the cliché has it, heavy hearts. But also some excitement. Yes, even with a hellish overnight bus journey ahead of...