Across northern Türkiye
Note: It’s now considered more polite to use Türkiye to refer to the country formerly known as Turkey. This is understandable because who would want to share a name with a big awkward bird? Occasionally, […]
Asia
Postcard from Pakistan
We were the only people crossing the Attari-Wagah border when we walked across from India to Pakistan. The immigration halls on both sides were completely empty, apart from the staff who were overjoyed to see […]
Poha for breakfast
Somehow, more than two years have sneaked by since my last blog post from Ukraine, just before all hell broke loose there. It was still Covid times when we got back to Bulgaria and we’d […]
First steps on the old silk road
It was an adventurer called Zhang Qian, between 100-200 BC, who is said to have started off the old silk road trade route, from China to the west. He keeps appearing in lots of different […]
From culture shock to panda bears
Arriving in China felt like we’d landed on an entirely different planet. One where we didn’t know the customs, how things worked or how to behave, where we couldn’t even communicate or manage the basics […]
Adventurous Hermit 