After strolling around the harbour in Essaouira, a town on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, we looked for a restaurant called Restaurant Du Coeur in town. Restaurant Du Coeur is a seafood restaurant….
We arrived in Essaouira, a port town on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. We parted ways with our driver, Youssuf, just before reaching the port, and went for a stroll. On this New…
In Marrakesh, Morocco, where the calendar is different, we celebrated the New Year without any festivities. Like the locals, we calmly checked out of our riad. We loaded our luggage into the car…
We visited Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque, inside the wall in Famagusta in Cyprus. I could not believe it was a mosque as the building was nothing but a Gothic church. I have…
The Cave Monastery in Kiev (Kiev Pechersk Lavra) was founded in 11th century, but in the Soviet era it was broken, so recently they rebuilt it. So the new golden domes were shining against…
This is a photo of St Michel’s monastery in Kiev. It was founded early 12th century, but could not survive in the communist era, so it was rebuild in 1998. There were other churches…
