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
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
For a minimalist like me anyway… Although, I think I’d make the bed. Continue reading
Today was the big day. After all of the hard work by myself and my agents, I went down to the Camden Town Hall with Eleonora for the 10:00 ceremony to become a British citizen. Ready and waiting for action: The woman speaking in the picture below is the agent that assisted me in preparing … Continue reading
Remember Bosnia? The country that fought a three-year civil war in the 1990s with 100,000 dead continues its downward slide. Since the Dayton peace accord, which sort of ended the war in 1995, Bosnia has been divided into two entities—one called the Republika Srpska (RS) with a Serbian majority and the other a federation of … Continue reading
While we were killing time in Peshawar waiting for the fighting in the Khyber Pass to die down enough for us to make it through to Afghanistan, we kept casting about for new things to see. Alleged (I’m very skeptical of this) to be one of the intellectual birthplaces of the Taliban, I was interested … Continue reading
Taken by Justin Ames in Kayseri, Turkey… Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 