Up early the following morning we met our tour guide and driver – and headed to Madaba to look at a 6th Century mosaic map of the area (Palestine/Jerusalem/ Nile Delta) which was discovered under the floor of the Greek Orthodox Basilica of Saint George. It’s quite hard to get your head around how old …
I decided when I moved back to Europe Jordan would be top of my places to go. Petra and Wadi Rum (the desert) looked absolutely out of this world, and of course, being so close to the Red Sea, I’d want to do some diving as well. So, when the Girls That Scuba email landed …
A few months ago I was sat on the Airport Express bus going home. Crossing Tsing Yi Bridge I looked down and saw, tucked away on the side of what looked like a small, but pretty affluent island, an abandoned village. I wanted to go there! Social media to the rescue! Took a picture, asked …
I didn’t have that high expectations for my last day in Kyoto. I was just looking forward to pedalling around and then heading to a vegan place for lunch. I’d been told I had to go to Japan’s number one tourist attraction, Fushimi Inari-taisha, that in itself lowered my expectations to almost nothing! I started …
In all honesty, I had no interest in visiting Cebu City. When I first learnt that a typhoon was due to hit Malapuscua the day I was due to go I thought about staying there to wait it out, but decided against, and would take my chances at the Ferry port town of Maya. After …
I always knew Tai Po existed as a place, and perhaps I'd been there as a kid, but I can't remember how it made it on my 'Hong Kong day trip' list. Having done it now, I definitely know why it was put on there. A guided walk around Tai Po Market came on the …
Boys vs IDF - Rocks vs Tear Gas https://www.facebook.com/weeze.coulcher/videos/10156703158373331/?l=9091539571171413191 Fellow tourist to me - 'I think the tour of the refugee camp might be cancelled!' Me: "why?" T: 'They're throwing tear gas down at some people!' When I relayed this to my guide, he laughed out loud and said if they (the Palestinians) let something …
You'd think walking around refugee camps would my most emotionally difficult experience whilst visiting Palestine, but it was Hebron that really broke my heart. Walking through a cobbled marketplace that should have been bright and bustling with laughter, gossip and bargaining attempts was cold, dark, almost empty, with many derelict looking shut shops, overshadowed, literally, by …
Usually I remember the lightbulb moment I think ‘yes. I am going there,’ and decide roughly when & start obsessively looking at flights and accommodation. Strangely, and sadly, I don’t remember this for Skopje. I hadn’t seen friends pictures, I didn’t know anything about it’s history, but can only imagine I ... < STOPPED THERE. …
Can you name the six countries of Former Yugoslavia? A little help needed? C B&H (you really should get this one...) Ma Se Sl Mo (There is also a seventh, 'K' though at the time it was an autonomous province and presently not recognised by one of the others - bonus points for getting that …
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