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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
