The coffee commitment
Mary Murphy
September 14, 2014
There’s a saying in Turkey that a cup of coffee commits you to 40 years of friendship. That’s some commitment. I grew up with instant
There’s a saying in Turkey that a cup of coffee commits you to 40 years of friendship. That’s some commitment. I grew up with instant
I detest shopping for myself. I hate it with a passion that is so unwomanly I occasionally wonder if I was a man in all
I thought the Golden Horn was a piece of land, not a body of water. I never knew that Istanbul straddled two continents. And I’d
Way back, many moons ago, in my first year at university, I came across two guys I knew from third-year Engineering debating which word best
I’ve heard tell that Muslims are buried standing up. And the Muslim cemeteries I have been to would suggest the same. I did some digging
I’ve a thing for markets. I can spend hours sifting through other people’s junk. The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul was high on my list of
Do I look like the type you could strike up a conversation with at 1.15 pm on a Sunday afternoon and after a litany of
A cursory check of reviews on Trip Advisor will show that customer service, or the lack thereof, is something that ranks high on every traveller’s
‘We learn something new every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned yesterday was wrong’ – I’m with you there, Bill Vaughan.
I have a long list of places I’d like to see before I pass from this mortal soil. The order changes occasionally, with new ones
