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Morocco, March-April, 2016

Morocco - near and exotic, foreign but friendly, beautiful country, lovely riad hotels, delicious food. It won’t have been my last trip! Ourarzazate and the...

Bhutan, October-November, 2015

Bhutan - the Buddhist kingdom cum parliamentary democracy best know for it’s measure of gross national happiness. The country like GNH is more complex than y...

Mušḫuššu in Babylon and Berlin

In May 2015 we went to Berlin and I finally got to the Pergamon Museum - a grand old institute based on the old discover-and-plunder school of archaelogy. Wh...

Is Life the Thing?

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading. ― Logan Pearsall Smith