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New Country #5: Israel Remember back to New Country #3? Saipan? Well, the same travel magazine, Travelife, asked me to shoot for them again, with the delightful Michelle again, but this time in Israel. Was I stoked! My first Middle Eastern country and a beauty to boot! Israel,...

New Country #4: Vietnam I had a flight voucher from a local airline that had to be used before Jan 2017. Hmmm, I thought, where and when. After a little digging and some input from friends, I decided on South Vietnam, namely Saigon and Mekong Delta for the 3rd week of October....

New Country #3: Saipan, Marianas Islands Ok, so Saipan is governed by the USA but it is a new territory I have visited and first time in the south pacific islands. I was asked to shoot for Travelife Magazine, a luxury travel magazine based in the Philippines, and what fun we had...

New Country #2: Australia Little did I know after my NZ trip that it’s neighbor was going to be my next new country to visit, 5 months later! My son graduated from high school and decided to go to school in Perth. What a fun opportunity to end one season and go into another...

For me personally, 2016 has been a really good year on lots of levels. One of my favourite things about 2016 is the fact that I saw not 1, not 2, but 6 new countries! And visited 2 of my favourites on top of that. So I have put together a blogpost FULL of coluorful memories. Pull...

Ormana is a quaint village in Turkey that I have truly grown to love. Off of the main national highway and winding into the Taurus Mountains. With its authentic “button houses” – read more about them HERE – are strewn down one of the main roads. One of the...

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Since the 16th century, the Iznik flower designs have been used in the tiles and pottery in Turkey. As the Istanbul Guide says: Floral motifs are ubiquitous the world over, but Turkey’s floral motifs are especially distinctive. One is greeted by Istanbul’s municipal emblem, a...

The Mevlana Museum. Truly a beautiful mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian Sufi mystic also known as Mevlâna or Rumi. It was also the dervish lodge of the Mevlevi order, better known as the whirling dervishes, above. There are many sections to the Museum. You enter...

It was one of my Biblical trips – St Paul and the 7 Churches – that we had a Biblical lunch in Denizli province. By Biblical lunch, it was a meal prepared as they did back in the Biblical times and used the very ingredients they did. The menu – God’s Grace, it was called – was...