Vaccination is underway and it is great news… However, according to the WHO, “94% of countries that have started vaccinating their populations are in the high- or high-middle income category.” Despite the efforts of WHO with COVAX (the vaccines pillar of the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator), around 2.5 billion people living in 130…
Fast forwarding the time, my body clock gone haywire, I arrive into Irkutsk and its delicious cocktail of architecture, cultures, traditions and peoples.
My travel starts with two great Russian cities and not without a bump.
I’m leaving Europe for the summer to explore Russia, Mongolia and China.
Juniper, the pan-Cypriot dog born in the UN buffer zone, contemplates the Cyprus problem as she stares across the tarmac of the old Nicosia International Airport. The airport stands abandoned in the buffer zone that cuts across the island, dividing the Turkish Cypriot north and the Greek Cypriot south, following Turkey’s invasion of northern Cyprus…
“Play me, I’m yours,” said the piano, which sits on the concourse of St Pancras International railway station. And the silver-haired man played. Beethoven’s sonata filled the cathedral-like building, which is a grand union between ornate Victorian redbrick architecture, and late 20th century glass and steel.
In the departure hall of Ercan International Airport, Turkish Cypriots commemorate the 76th anniversary of the death of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of modernTurkey. As Northern Cyprus is a self-declared state that is only recognized by Turkey, travelers from Europe have to touch down first at a Turkish airport before they…
