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Strangely enough I found myself being affected by women in Iran. Not just Iranian women, but women travelers too. Something I was not expecting, and something I found that stuck with me. Having come through Turkey, and lived in a Muslim society previously I was used to seeing Chador’s and Burkas. Well, not so many . . . → Read More: Iranian women, and the others I met in Iran ~ Robert Twigger (W&N, 2007) Robert Twigger packs it all into a container and moves the family to his wife’s native Cairo where the money will go further. With previous adventures and books to his credit he soon acquaints himself with the historical and geographical treasures to be found in the Libyan Desert and . . . → Read More: LOST OASIS; In Search of Paradise ~ Jeroen van Bergeijk (NBP, 2008) On starting this slim book my expectations were that, along with a title that may well work better in Dutch, surely there’s not much to be written about driving a Mercedes to West Africa and selling it? But journalist Jeroen van Bergeijk has a pretty good go and, much . . . → Read More: MY MERCEDES IS NOT FOR SALE I’d settled down to read the other night when Levi swiveled his desk chair toward me. “Dad,” he said in an insistent tone, “we should really do the trip.” The Trip, in our household parlance, can mean only one thing. It’s part of nearly every dinner conversation. The Trip colors our discussions about finances, about . . . → Read More: Fantasy or Reality? ‘The Trip’ Beckons. Just came across your website. What a blast from the past. My husband and I travelled with Capricorn in September 1975 to December 1975 from London to Kathmandu before travelling on to Melbourne where we stayed for 11 months then sailing back to the UK. Apart from one other couple who were English like . . . → Read More: Capricorn london to Kathmandu There’s lots of photo’s in our story but here are a few more of Turkey today. There is a lot of work going on to restore old buildings, the Turks have realized they are sitting on a tourist gold mine. The city has changed but the buildings are still there, the old spare parts area . . . → Read More: Visit to Turkey 2010 Attached some old photos from 77 and 78 that may jog some fading memories out there. The trick to not driving off the road when crossing a flooded river is to ask a few luckless punters to walk in front of the truck and blaze a trail! If I remember we did tie them together . . . → Read More: Encouter Overland 1977-78 I boarded the plane at Istanbul airport feeling quite nervous. I had never been to Pakistan before, and here I was leading a group of passengers to a country I didn’t know. I was English and thus had been denied an Iranian visa [luckily for us Brits, times have changed, though we still pay more . . . → Read More: London to Kathmandu – 1987 |
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