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In the winter before my first visit to Turkey, I went to a David Hockney exhibition in Manchester and fell in love with the artist...

Market day again: The weeks are racing past and we've been back in Bodrum for almost a third of a year.  I expected time to drag ...

Ambridge celebrated 23rd April, St George's Day, with a peal of church bells. In London, 23rd April, Shakespeare's birth and deat...

"Parası pul. Karısı dul" The poignant truth about sponge divers .  "Lots of money but their wives end up widows".  Lu...

I've been to Bodrum airport 3 times this week and each time I relished the easy journey to and from town.  It has not always been so. Wh...

Not a kitchen this time but a galley. I spotted a tiny advert in The Times looking for a cook on a 71 foot ketch based in Rhodes. I had n...

From before she could walk, my daughter has been a regular at most of the ancient sites in South West Turkey. The older she got, the more...

I've been enjoying having a friend stay for the past few days. We met 35 years ago while studying archaeology in Birmingham and have ...

It's market day again and time to cook another wild vegetable. I'm gradually working my way through the various greenery that spr...

I had a friend in the 80's who was a bit of a prankster, I'll call him Dave. When I knew Dave, he was at a loose end and had vol...