Oxford does not do subtle hauntings. Welcome to Haunted Oxford, where the past does not just linger… it complaints, knocks books off shelves, plays with electricity and sighs disapprovingly at your reading choices. If you think this city is all dreaming spires, tweed jackets, and overpriced punting, you have never stayed after dark or you…
Tag: Adventure
Hong Kong Morning Noodles
Recently, I went digging through my collection of several thousand photos looking for one specific picture. Naturally, I did not find it. It was a classic needle-in-a-haystack situation. Instead, I stumbled upon a bunch of photos from my trip to Hong Kong, one of my very first long travels in Asia. Clearly the haystack won…
Among the Gods
When you look at the travel brochures to Turkey, one of the displayed pictures is always of stone heads in rising or setting sun on a mountain. This is Nemrut Dağı (eng. Mount Nemrut). The Mountain is tucked away in the rugged mountains of southeastern Turkey and rises to an altitude of 2,134 meters. It…
In the Heart of Silk Road, part 2
The alarm ripped me from sleep at 4:45 AM in Bukhara and the pre-dawn chill sept through the hotel walls. It was way too early to get up but I had had quite an adventure waiting. By 6:30 we were at the train platform, clutching tickets for the 07:01 Bukhara – Khiva and waiting patiently…
In the heart of Silk Road, part 1
Uzbekistan is a captivating blend of history, culture, and flavors that hits you like a whirlwind of turquoise tiles, fragrant plov, and relentless carpet sellers they could sell sand to a camel. I recently returned from this Central Asian jewel, clutching four cashmere shawls I did not know I needed until the bazaar vendors worked…
Pompeii Past Preserved
What do you do when you binge-watch “Sopranos” again? You book a flight to Napoli, or Naples, if you will. The Other Me and I had this overwhelming need to go back to Italy and Tony Soprano convinced us that it was time to go back. With less then 2hour flight from Istanbul it is…
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