by Shabeel
Posted Aug 22, 2010 in Travel
Sailing in the GREEK Isles
A quarter of a millennium ago, or something like that, Giacomo Casanova wrote about his time in Corfu with the Venetian Army. I don’t think he’d recognize it today. The Greek island of Kérkyra, tucked in close to the mainland in the Ionian Straits, is now something of a tourist Disneyland, crawling with the dregs of Eastern Europe (such as...
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by Shabeel
Posted Aug 7, 2010
The English Mechanic
“Give me the keys.” “I beg your pardon?” “Give me the keys to the...
by Shabeel
Posted Jul 25, 2010
Fleur de Falaise
We arrived in Constanta sometime before one in the morning. We parked the...
by Shabeel
Posted Jun 26, 2010
The Girl on the Balcony
The sun had just set over the hills of Algiers, and the White City was...









