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King of the Asian Castles
Everybody loves a castle or a fort. We imagine knights on horseback, lowering the drawbridge & portcullis, a battering ram, catapult, perhaps even crocodiles in the moat. The truth of course is that they were brutal places. Built to be impregnable, usually somewhere high up, they could reign terror on any attackers – arrows, boiling […]
2024 Gone, 2025 Beckons
As has become traditional at this time of year I am looking back on my travel year and forward to travels to come. 2024 Innsbruck I started 2024 with a solo short break to the Tyrollean Alps. 36 hours gave me enough time to explore the small city and take the train/cable car high up […]
