Is Troy Worth Seeing?
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...
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In Which We Take a Holiday from Our Holiday
“Hey. Let me take that for you,” a voice comes from behind me. We live our lives, Zac and I, out of a backpack each...
Exploring Tyre Old Town
Given the chap with the moustache has offered intensive, and, further, only discreetly amused assistance in my parking fiasco, I feel we should eat in...
On the Trail of the Phoenicians – Sidon
One of many things that makes the Middle East worthwhile is the sense that you’re walking in history, amid names and places that are embedded...
Friday Photo Essay: Flowers in Ancient Byblos
I fell a little bit in love with Byblos Old Town. But the ruins of the ancient city — some of them dating back six...
Lost City of the Giants
Winding your way through a narrow, towering canyon where camel trains the size of armies once brought frankincense, myrrh, silk and slaves, that first glimpse...
The Luxor Top Ten
The capital of Egypt for the great pharaohs of the New Kingdom, more than a thousand years after the Old Kingdom chaps built the pyramids...
The Cutest City You’ve Never Heard Of…
Plovdiv Old Town is the single prettiest place we’ve visited since beautiful Lijiang in China. The city’s history is written in its walls. Successive generations...