Yerevan
At the beginning of the year, if someone had showed me my diary for the 19th-22nd April 2012 and I’d seen the word Yerevan printed there, I wouldn’t have had…
At the beginning of the year, if someone had showed me my diary for the 19th-22nd April 2012 and I’d seen the word Yerevan printed there, I wouldn’t have had…
(This account, only scratching the surface of this marvellous city is a story based on two entirely separate trips, in 2002 and 2003.) That’s how it’s pronounced, when you’re there.…
Azerbaijan! What an exotic name that is! For weeks before going there I was almost boasting about it, as if the name itself would conjure remote possibilities, as it did…
I was in Yangon, capital of Myanmar, formerly known under British rule as Rangoon, capital of Burma. But today I left behind the gleaming pagodas and everyday city life, and…
Dubai is dull. At least in March 2017 it was dull. It’s a building site. There are no pavements. As you tramp along the uneven boardwalks or even edge along…
This was a biggie, one I’d been looking forward to with some excitement. Previous visits to Japan, four I think, had all been as part of more extensive far-East run-arounds,…
“Wherever you are in Georgia, you can see the Caucasus”, said Lasha as we drove west. Looking left out of the car we could see the southern Caucasus mountains,…