"History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon."  IVAN PANIN, Thoughts

I have forever wondered in awe and amazement how historians can fill in the gaps with such prose and detail of past events and get into the heads of those involved. It is said that hist...

Most of my travels are done unaccompanied. Free to go where sudden urges compel me. Free not to visit places I don't want to and free to rise early in the day or end the day late. I have experienced many things that are not in travel brochures or itineraries. I've fou...

Travel is a word full of meanings; the long road, the intrepid, the immigrant, far and wide, the universe, have gun will… Whatever the meaning, travel uses all the senses. The smell of land and food, the sound of language and countryside, the touch of a hand and the si...

The thought of starting up a blog is a little unnerving. All advice points to the need to do it, and apart from the technicalities of how to do it, that seems to be where all the advice stops. Because once you start a blog it's totally up to you and what you write abou...