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Resting up in Chania
I got to Athens around 7am and wandered around the Piraeus port looking for where to get a ticket to Chania, Crete, my next destination. I eventually found a ti...
Setting out: Raging fever and a plate of garlic
It was time to set out again. For the past month I’d been working at a kid’s camp up on mount Uludağ, about four hours from Istanbul. The university...
Fatura ödemeleri – paying my bills
Went and paid my gas and electricity bills the other day. Lord, what a nightmare it is anytime I need to go and pay my bills. When my parents were here we talke...
Mark the Artist
I’ve met a lot of people in my few years of traveling and feel like I’ve got more than enough characters to make up a pretty funny novel about meeti...
Fred Fishermen
Went for a walk the other day. Strolled down to Karaköy in the evening as the sun was going down, to sit by the waterfront to watch the ferries come and go and ...
Portkeys
I’ve written a lot about objects and how they can have the power to transport you to different worlds. I read most of the Harry Potter books, and the thin...
Goodnight Phraseology Between Two Dudes
I recently had a friend of mine from my days of teaching in Prague, Steve, stay with me. I saw him again when I was in Prague again the next year, the fall of 2...
Spring Travels
The school year in most English preparatory departments is broken down into five modules. Each module is six weeks followed by a final exam. After the first mod...
Tour of Virginia
I’m picking away at a number of books at the moment, one of which is a collection of essays by writers about their worst travel experiences. This got me t...