Morning in Bergama, bustling little town in the shadow of the ancient mountaintop city of Pergamum. From the window of our quaint pink, pagoda-topped hotel, we look up to see […]

Day four – or maybe five – of the boat trip. The classic way to see Aegean Turkey is via a “blue voyage”: a trip along the Turquoise Coast in […]

Something else I need to get down in words before, as Herodotus would say, time draws the color from it. How many days ago was this? My camera claims it […]

Tonight was an evening that had to be captured, somehow, so it can be pulled out from the deep cabinets of our past on special evenings, when old friends are […]

Morning at the remains of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. Not much left, but they deserve better words than I have to do them justice: Lucian – Dialogues of the Dead, […]

In so many ways, Bodrum is a study in contrasts: it is Halicarnassus, the ancient trading city that gave birth to Herodotus, the father of modern history. And it is […]

[Sigh… okay, where was I before the hotel’s flakey internet connection ate my post? Sorry, but this whole Anne LaMott thing of “s***y first drafts” (yes, it’s a family blog) […]

Hi everyone! My name is Andy. I think that our stay has been fun so far. Today we fly to Bodrum and meet our friends. I can’t wait! My brother […]

The things that really brings history home for me are the little things; not the grand fallen gates of an ancient city, but the accidental artifacts: a broken doll, played […]