Tag: adventure
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Portugal:a beautiful return
Monday March 02, 2026 Dear readers, I must confess to something you probably have already surmised: I have been posting about my trip to Türkiye from the comfort of my apartment in Estoi, Portugal for about a week. Mahmood elected to stay in Istanbul rather than return to Tehran. As far as he knows, his…
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Izmir: aka Smyrna
Friday February 13, 2026 Yes, we have uprooted ourselves once again and continued our nomadic journey to the third largest city in Türkiye. Not the most propitious date to be travelling perhaps but it was an easy journey. Here are a few parting shots of our place in Bodrum including a video by Mahmood. The…
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Marmaris
Sunday February 08, 2026 It was one of those days that my aunt from England would have described as “neither chalk nor cheese”. It would rain for five minutes and the sun would come out for fifteen, then more rain. So we decided to make the hour long trek to Marmaris, another port city on…
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Knidos: Where Aegean meets Mediterranean
Saturday February 07, 2026 The ancient ruins of the city of Knidos is an easy drive from the Datça area. The original site of kinds is thought to have been Datça and it later moved to its current location. It is an enormous archeological treasure rival Ephesus in terms of size. Walking the paths through…
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From Sky to Sea
Tuesday February 03, 2026 Tuesday dawned bright blue, in so many shades of blue. From the sky, to the sea, to the swimming pool, the brilliant sunshine carved out more shades of blue than one could count. We have a resident ginger kitty cat, very pregnant, very hungry, very demanding. I call her Missy and…
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Historic Kaş
Sunday February 01, 2026 Kaş is a seaside town on the Mediterranean coast in south western Türkiye. We are staying about 40 minutes north of the town and only need to take a right hand turn at the end of the driveway and follow a circuitous paved road down the mountain…lots of fun first thing…
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Life’s a beach in Faro
Thursday January 8, 2026 Today the sun was out in full force and the sky was a shade of blue that I think only exists in the Algarve. Regardless, after spending the morning exercising and bike riding, I decided to spend the afternoon at Faro beach – one of my favourite places to be. It…
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Another Portugal Adventure
Tuesday January 06, 2026 Today is the day many Christians around the world celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany – January 6, 12 days after Christmas Day. It’s also the day traditionally attached to the three Wise Guys from the East visiting the Christ Child. No one really knows how many there were or exactly…
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Scaling the heights, finding transformation
Thursday October 30, 2025 Thursday morning dawned bright and beautiful. It was a great beginning for our bus trip to Ancasmarca, an archeological site on a mountain of 5,198 metres. The name is of Quechua origin, meaning blue village, or village of eagles. The part we were visiting was referred to as the blue balcony.…
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Transition Day
Monday October 27, 2025 Th day began with plenty of sunshine and an early morning trip to the San Pedro Market. It was also the day I had to check out of the Hotel Siete Ventanas and travel with Wilbert to the town of Urubamba in the Sacred Valley. The rest of my group were…
Five Feet, Nine Inches Above Ground 