J’s garden in a magical and mysterious place – a place where myth and legend and reality meld together; where beautiful virgin maidens peep shyly from behind trees and share their world with mighty, sulfur-belching dragons! The beautiful virgins used to hang about just outside of our garden in the village graveyard, but the peace [...]
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. . yet another nail in the coffin of Turkey’s bio-diversity. In a small corner of this beautiful but fading country, in the village of Okçular, Muğla, can be found all that remains of what the locals call Kara Göl or Black Lake. It once stretched over many square kilometres of the Dalaman river flood [...]
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My mother kept a dragon – she really did. It lived in a large pot behind the shed in the garden of the very new, post-war council house that we occupied back when I was a very young and impressionable child. She didn’t call it a dragon in those days, she called it a ‘Snake [...]
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