AD BLUE As global concerns for environment deepen, the motoring industry is taking more steps to ensure that new cars…
AUYUITTUQ NATIONAL PARK Located on eastern Baffin Island between the communities of Pangnirtung and Qikiqtarjuaq, Auyuittuq (pronounced ‘ow-you-we-took’) National Park…
HUNTERS AT HEART Songbirds are in steep decline all over the world. Their habitat has been shrinking because of agriculture,…
Ionian Islands (Corfu, Zakynthos, Kefalonia) December 27-28, 2019 I took the ferry (Kerkyra Seaways www.kerkyraseaways.gr or www.corfuferries.gr but these don’t…
Mount Athos (Agion Oros) December 26, 2019 GETTING THERE Mount Athos - commonly known as the Agion Oros (Holy Mountain), is located…
Greece - North Aegean Islands (Lemnos, Lesbos, Samos, Chios) December 23, 2019 There is a daily ferry from Cesme, Turkey…
Greece – Dodecanese Islands (Rhodes, Kos, Patmos) December 21, 2019 I took the ferry from Marmaris, Turkey to Rhodes for…
Turkey – Mediterranean West (Antalya, Isparta, Burdur, Alanya) December 19-20, 2019 ALANYA This is a large beach resort city on…
Turkey – Mediterranean East (Adana, Hatay, Osmaniye) December 17-19, 2019 HATAY PROVINCE ANTAKYA (Antioch) (pop 217,000) It was a populous…
Turkey – Southeast Anatolia (Diyarbakir, Gaziantep, Mardin, Batman, Urfa) December 14-17, 2019 From Kurdistan, Iraq, I turned west to drive…