It’s the weekend
Posted on August 24, 2018
Carturesti Carusel bookshop, Bucharest, Romania, where MB & daughter MB2 were hanging out this week.
Everyday Moments
Posted on August 18, 2018
Everyday Moments
(Photo challenge from blogger Debbie at The World is a Book blog site)
The Islamic feast of Eid al Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) takes place next week. In the week leading up, Muslim families will travel to the animal markets to select their particular sheep or goat (normally). So maybe not an ‘everyday moment’ throughout the entire year, but the buying and selling of animals is an everyday moment for that particular week in the Middle East and throughout the Islamic world, for many hundreds of years past.
One Word Sunday – Selfie
Posted on August 12, 2018
Action
Posted on July 22, 2018
MBs submission for Debbies One Word Sunday challenge – Action
From MBs recent trip to Canakkale, Turkey:
It’s the weekend
Posted on July 20, 2018
A street performer plays on a street in Nyon, a small town just outside Geneva, Switzerland. July 2017.
And if you want to hear a short clip of what she was playing………..
It’s the weekend
Posted on July 13, 2018
Another shot from MBs recent trip to Canakkale on the Dardanelles Straits in western Turkey.
One Word Sunday – Stark
Posted on June 24, 2018
MB’s response to this weeks challenge – a shot from mid-December 2017 from Lough Gur lake back home.
Troy
Posted on June 22, 2018
For most of history, the city of Troy was considered a mythical place of ancient Greek legend. It’s existence, mythical or not, was founded on its mention a number of times in the poem ‘The Illiad’ by Homer (ancient Greece, not modern Springfield!). It was referred to by different names in the poem, Troia being one of them, after King Tros. Read More
One-Word Sunday (on Monday!) – Circle
Posted on June 18, 2018
The Suvla Bay area of western Turkey on the Dardanelles Straits is infamous as one of the venues of appalling human butchery of WW1. The battles at Suvla formed part of the Gallipoli Campaign, where approximately 200,000 British/French/Anzac troops died, along with some 60,000 Ottoman Turks. Another 250,00 soldiers from both sides were injured. It is said that the sea was brown in colour for three days following one of the major battles, as the blood of the fallen mixed with the salt water.
Brutal stuff indeed.
One hundred and three years later, only a few days back, MB landed at Suvla. It is an altogether more pleasant place today. War monuments and memories abound and MB may return to that subject matter at another time. For the moment, MB will focus on the Suvla vineyard where some mighty fine Suvla wine can be procured.
On the lawn outside the main building sits an old stone press which was used for pressing the grapes. Inside, the vineyard shop sells a host of Suvla wines and foods.
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