places to visit

Cappadocia, Turkey

If fairies existed, their playground would look like the Cappadocia region in Turkey, with its fantastically-shaped structures. “The Cappadocia region is largely underlain by sedimentary rocks formed in lakes and streams, and ignimbrite deposits erupted from ancient volcanoes approximately 9 to 3 million years ago. The rocks of Cappadocia near Göreme eroded into hundreds of [...]


I wanna go to Iceland

For the fourth time this week I was enticed into visiting Iceland (three times by different shows on the telly plus a full page feature in the newspaper). I have been fascinated with the out-of-this-world Blue Lagoon geothermal spa and the Northern Lights Aurora Borealis (photo above) when I saw it in a documentary many years ago. But being a [...]