At one point in time the leaders of two countries sat down and signed a legal document, shook hands and then got started on some fully legal ethnic cleansing. To be exact, the plan worked out to be a religious cleansing more than ethnic. Millions of people would be forced out of their homes andContinue reading “City of Snakes”
Monthly Archives: December 2020
The Real Santa Claus
Endless farms dot the rolling hills rising out of the Demre River Valley. An ancient port here was abandoned thousands of years ago when alluvial silts filled in the harbor. The once great port is now little more than marshland, but the silts have made for great farmland. After trying some fresh squeezed pomegranate juiceContinue reading “The Real Santa Claus”
The Lycian Way
The rock tombs have survived for thousands of years in the mountains of Lycia. Everything else has been lost to time so that very little is understood about the people that once inhabited this land. Once known as the Land of Light, the civilization that existed here thousands of years ago was quite a bitContinue reading “The Lycian Way”
Winter Wonderland
When we left the United States a bit over four months ago, I imagined we would be skiing somewhere in Europe in December. In fact, one of the suitcases that we have been lugging around is full of nothing but heavy winter clothes, gloves, ski pants and jackets. I never imagined that December would beContinue reading “Winter Wonderland”
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