Been a bit desultory with the blog posts of late, preferring to doss around on my back reading, sleeping, moping and, just occasionally, contemplating my navel! (you’d be amazed how much fluff gets into those things – then again, you might not!) I’ve been a bit depressed, you see – mortality staring me in the [...]
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Turkey, our adopted country, is a blessed place for opera and ballet lovers with six (Yes, six!) State Opera and Ballet Companies with their associated Orchestras – Ankara; Istanbul; Izmir; Antalya; Mersin and Samsun – all of them are world class. Add to that a venue like the near-perfectly preserved Aspendos amphitheatre with its near-perfect [...]
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Archers is an ‘Ad-Free Zone’! There would be no posts, or posters, about this restaurant or that hotel no matter how good they might be. Any stray thoughts of a bit of ‘fly-posting’ would be ruthlessly hunted down and stomped upon. Company policy – no exceptions and all that stuff. And then yesterday happened! J [...]
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Bloody Greeks . . . . living beyond their means; sponging off everyone else. Lazy bastards got everything they deserve coming to them! So runs the mainstream media around much of Europe but particularly in Germany where the hard working and fiscally frugal natives see Iron Chancellor Merkel’s handing over of ‘their’ hard-earned savings to [...]
~ read more ~There was a time when radios really were radios – calling them a ‘wireless’, as we invariably did back then (the 40s and 50s), was a total misnomer because there was more wire in a wireless than could be found on the beaches on ‘D Day’! Why we don’t call these modern, sleek, solid-state, ‘wireless’ [...]
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J and I found Antakya, the principal city of Hatay, SE Turkey, to be an astonishingly cosmopolitan place. Laid back, Istanbul fashions everywhere, and barely a headscarf to be seen. The old parts of the town are not extensive but are a delight to explore – the people, as everywhere in Turkey, are open and [...]
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Here we go on another of those ‘Tardis’ time trips; this time back to the year 2003 of the Modern Era (as we have to say now). J and I were touring around the east of Turkey with our kaymakam ‘son’ and his very new and very delightful wife. Now, being a kaymakam is a [...]
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. . or Getting Up Close And Personal With Some Of The Oiks Of Okçular! J and I often have close encounters with some very strange looking characters; it’s a hazard of living where we do away from a lot of the disturbance created by human activity. Generally, we are delighted to get chummy with them [...]
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‘Chrrrr-chrrrrr-chrrrrr-chrrrr . .’ This time of year there is no escaping it – unless you are immersed in the ‘Whrrrr-whrrrr’ of an air-conditioner, that is! I’m talking about the incredible sound of cicadas; amazing creatures that fill the night (and the day) with their incessant conversation. Rising and falling in volume and then suddenly, as [...]
~ read more ~This post is by way of a try-out for a slide show – so maybe you’ll see it, and maybe you won’t. Maybe it’ll be here later and maybe it will have been kicked into touch! Maybe it’ll be something different from the usual waffle – and maybe it won’t! If it works, here are [...]
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