Part 6 –  Escape from Crete and Flight Home WARNING! This episode contains graphic descriptions of personal and medical issues that...

Part 5 – Sitia, Modern Minoans and the Cretan Medical System Our return drive from Kato Zakros to Sitia was shorter and more...

Part 4 – Minoans of Zakros, Kato Zakros and Sitia At the far eastern end of Crete lies another ancient Minoan ruin, the remains of the...

Part 3 – The Minoan Path to Zeus After our venture to the Minoan sites in central Crete, we returned to Heraklion for some ‘down time’...

Part 2 – Minoans of Phaistos and Gortyn The two most important attractions for me, as a writer and student of languages, are the...

Part 1- The Minoans – Knossos Before I launch into the first of these “Cretan Adventures”, I think I should first tell you something...

I wasn’t sure how I was going to write this one, so I’ll just begin by saying I’m going to take a break, a short pause in my ‘travel...

Whoops! It must have slipped my mind, but when I wrote the last two tales about Beer, Booze and other Beverages, I completely missed...

Part 2 – Spirits, Liqueurs and other Dangerous Drinks Carrying on from Part 1, I first want to talk about some other wines, beginning...

Part 1 – Tea, Coffee, Wine and Beer Over the years, readers have often asked me if I was a serious drinker, or even if I was an...

Anybody who has lived near Greater Vancouver in recent years should be familiar with the name Umberto Menghi. For those die-hard...

The name ‘Parthenon’ immediately conjures up iconic images of a Greek temple like the most famous one on the acropolis in Athens. In...

Just a quick note before we continue our crazy tale: The shipwreck that I refer to in this section is the famous iconic photo you see in...

Here we are, back in the Greek islands, one of our favourite places to be! I mention in the title the term ‘Greekophile’, for someone...

Katzweiler/Pfalz Bonanza Ranch What? Bonanza Ranch? Are you talking about a popular TV series that ran through the sixties? No, this...

Ankara, Turkey For years we looked at Turkey as a possible travel destination. We always hesitated because of our lack of knowledge of...

“The Penguin Parade” Here we are again ‘Down Under”. We had taken the train from Sydney to Melbourne, an interesting trip passing...

“Dachas and ‘Real Russians’” In any story about Russia, or Russians, the word ‘dacha’ will appear. The Russian Dacha is an important...

“Russian Roads and Rivers” Another great adventure that our Russian friends had planned. We each packed a small bag with enough for a...

“Palaces and Restaurants” Eventually, the Russians wore us down, and we decided to visit them in Russia. Actually, it did not take much...