Cairo to Constantinople A Exhibition at Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, England ; On a recent trip to London, England, I paid a visit to the Queen’s Gallery of Buckingham Palace. I hadn’t intended to but I’d seen a flyer somewhere over...
My trip to the Middle East in mid-2008 was memorable. I found Jerusalem in particular fascinating. It’s one of the oldest cities on earth & a city sacred to all three of the major Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Needless to say the...
Syria Reviewing A Pre-War-Torn Syria Crac des Chevaliers, Syria. May 7, 2008 ; One of my fondest travel memories of the recent past was of the days, in May 2008, that I spent in the Middle Eastern country of Syria. Like a lot of people around the world, I’ve...
The UNESCO World Heritage-listed city of Aleppo is Syria’s largest city, although not the capital (that’s Damascus). Having been inhabited since perhaps as early as the 6th millennium BC, it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, an ancient...
Krac des Chevaliers, transliterated Crac des Chevaliers, in the Middle Eastern country of Syria, was a Crusader fortress that today is considered one of the most important preserved medieval military castles in the world. The Crac des Chevaliers was built by the...
Hama is the fifth-largest city in the Middle Eastern country of Syria. The city is renowned for its ancient norias which line the city’s Orontes River. The Norias of Hama are huge wooden waterwheels (norias means ‘wheels of pots’), up to 20 metres...
Founded in the 3rd millennium B.C., the Syrian capital of Damascus is one of the oldest cities in the Middle East & is considered to be among the oldest continually inhabited cities on earth. It was an important cultural and commercial centre, by virtue of its...
Bethlehem is a Palestinian city located in the central West Bank, about 10 kilometres south of Jerusalem. The city is inhabited by one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, although the size of the community has shrunk due to emigration. Bethlehem was...
Jerusalem is the capital of the Israeli State (Palestinians also claim it as their capital) & one of the oldest & most historic cities on earth. An iconic biblical melting-pot, the city is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions of Judaism,...
The Christian Holy Place of Mount Nebo is an elevated ridge in Jordan, approximately 817 metres (2,680 ft) above sea level, mentioned in the Bible as the place where Moses was granted a view of the Promised Land. The view from the summit provides a panorama of the...
