Tag Archive: travel

The Evliya Çelebi Way Project: 2009 Expeditionary Ride, Part 2

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The 2009 Ride: Before Setting Out Contributed by Gerald Maclean I ended the last post reporting that ‘On 22 September 2009, with seven horses and a supply vehicle, the first Evliya Çelebi Ride… Continue reading

365 Places: The Grand Bazaar

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Day 68: The Grand Bazaar, Istanbul, Turkey As promised here is another place I love in the old city of Istanbul – the Grand Bazaar. I love this place because it symbolises the… Continue reading

The Evliya Çelebi Way Project: 2009 Expeditionary Ride

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This post is the first in a series which will explore the expeditionary ride along Evliya Çelebi Way in 2009 plus linking you to some other writing about Evliya Çelebi Way. As more… Continue reading

Photowalking in Villaneuve

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This is a post from Garry Benson from late in May when he was in Queensland. It has some beautiful images of the area around Somerset Dam in Queensland. Images and text ©… Continue reading

365 Place: Ginninderra Falls

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Day 66: Ginninderra Falls, ACT, Australia Ginninderra Falls is located less than 10 minutes drive from where I live, but I have never been there. It is a place that my husband Marty… Continue reading

365 Places: Gregynog

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Day 65: Gregynog, Wales, UK The main purpose of my first trip to the UK and Europe was to attend a conference and present a paper. The conference was titled Identities in action… Continue reading

365 Places: Bath

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Day 64: Bath, England When I went to Europe in 1999, there was a very small window of time where I was in England. I landed in London a 6am in the morning,… Continue reading

365 Places: Museum of Natural History, Dublin

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Day 63: Museum of Natural History, Dublin, Ireland While we are on the topic of museums, today I would like to reminiscence about my 1999 trip to Dublin, where I visited many galleries and museums.… Continue reading

365 Places: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC

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Day 62: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States of America Today I build on my earlier posts about iconic NYC sites, Times Square and the Guggenheim Museum, by exploring… Continue reading

Who was Evliya Çelebi?

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Contributed from Gerald Maclean Evliya Çelebi The seventeenth-century Ottoman travel writer known as Evliya Çelebi was born in 1611. His father, Derviş Muhammed Zilli, was a master goldsmith at the imperial Ottoman court… Continue reading