In conjunction with our visit to, and subsequent reporting on Auschwitz, the Imperial War Museum London established a permanent Holocaust exhibition. One component of this exhibition I was particularly impressed by was a model constructed with painstaking detail showing the process by which Jews and others were led off the trains in Birkenau and straight … Continue reading
Category Archives: Places We Go
A Bunker Tour Through The Heartland Of Albania
Actually, our trip through Albania was not intended as a bunker tour, but it is difficult for any trip through Albania to not take on this feel given the literally millions of bunkers scattered across the country (more on that later). We crossed into Albania from Macedonia by utilizing the border crossing at Debar. This … Continue reading
The Truth About Serbia
Ok, let’s start by you, dear reader, throwing out all of your preconceptions about Serbia – preconceptions undoubtedly fostered by a drumbeat of negative news reports from the 1990s depicting the Serbs as grim genocidaires… A news vacuum in regard to Serbia since that time has, unfortunately, done little to alter that bloodthirsty impression forged … Continue reading
Visiting Peshawar – Scenes And Pictures Of Pakistan
With Peshawar in the news so much lately for everything from being the front lines in the struggle with militant Islam to suicide bombings to Blackwater operatives allegedly working out of the Pearl Continental for the Frontier Corps and for JSOC, I realized it was time to run a post on my experiences there. Peshawar … Continue reading
Sudan’s Roads: Death Of The Death Of…
There aren’t many paved roads in Sudan. Those that are paved are really long and really straight. This makes them a natural environment for high rates of speed. At night, one can see the lights of oncoming drivers from miles away and adjust accordingly. Except that animals cross roads at night too – and they … Continue reading
A Brief Visit With Mr. Tumbus In Tumbus, Sudan
Not much is known about Mr. Tumbus (the statue below)… He is located just outside the village of Tumbus and this was an area of Nubian civilizations. Tumbus itself housed an important granite quarry in the Pharaonic era. Not much is known beyond that. Supposedly, an effort was made to relocate Mr. Tumbus to the … Continue reading
Visiting Sudan – Pictures and Scenes of Khartoum
Before even trying to get into Sudan, make sure you have your visas in order and give yourself plenty of time to get them. The Sudanese visas proved to be the most difficult and time-consuming visas that my Italian interpreter and I have yet obtained – and we have been to a lot of weird … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 