Göreme is a town in the Cappadocia region of Turkey. It was there I had a meal baked in a ceramic pot. I got to break the pot when my Testi Kebab was done cooking; the instruction was to raise…

I took a sleeper train from London that arrived in Edinburgh at six o’clock in the morning. Nothing was open. No coffee shop; no nothing. (The doughnut places in my hometown always opened at five o’clock in the morning so…

Cologne:  So they call it Köln nowadays, but I studied French for so many years that Köln never seemed right to me. Decades ago, I stayed at a place by the Rhine and near the Cathedral, a huge gothic cathedral…

You want more on Northern Ethiopia?  Truly it was the self esteem with which people carried themselves  that stood out the most.  More?  Hmm… I liked the shoulder dancing but it tired me out.  And the ululations were all right once…

January in Ethiopia…I was fortunate to attend the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s Timkat celebration in the town of Axum and witness its colorful pageantry. It is said there that when the Queen of Sheba visited King Solomon, she conceived a son by…