We intended to stay in Yosemite for two days, but, as fate would have it, impenetrable fog descended on our second day and we chose to leave the area rather than spend the day moping indoors. Luckily we had really made the most of it the day before, because it turned out to be our […]
Read more "One Day in Yosemite (in Photos)"San Francisco is renowned for being one of the most liveable cities in America, and it has a respect for the arts and sustainable living that puts it on par with Europe’s most forward-thinking cultural hubs. There are so many exciting activities that the hardest part of putting together the killer itinerary is deciding what […]
Read more "The Killer San Francisco Itinerary"The main thing that struck me about the Jewish state was that everything important or interesting had a church built right on top of it. The shepherd’s field? Church. The stable in Bethlehem? Church. The possible site of Jesus’ crucifixion? Church. The sites where water was turned to wine, loaves and fishes were multiplied, and […]
Read more "Israel: Guns and Moses"“The place on the planet with the most visible stars”. That’s what sold me on Wadi Rum, Jordan as the place to realise my goal of spending a night in the desert. And it turned out that the desert made famous by Lawrence of Arabia was special for a lot more than stars. The newest […]
Read more "Adventures in the Jordanian Desert"I’ve wanted to visit Petra ever since watching Indiana Jones as a kid. The idea of a mysterious, ancient city carved directly into rock thousands of years ago by a lost civilisation (the Nabataeans) and forgotten by the western world until two hundred years ago is too exciting to be true, surely? Petra is Jordan’s […]
Read more "Petra: The Rock City (in Photos)"Fact: public transport in the Middle East is notoriously unreliable. Fact: the only way to get directly from Egypt to Jordan is by ferry across the Red Sea. Fact: the alternative route crosses overland through Israel. Fiction: Nothing could possibly go wrong! The ferry from Egypt to Jordan leaves from the port town of Nuweiba. […]
Read more "Accidentally in Israel"Climbing a holy mountain at 2am will leave you dazed at the best of times, but add a million stars and a few dozen bellowing camels into the mix and I defy you not to feel like you’ve stepped into a Christmas carol.
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