Wanderism Travel

Location: Istanbul, Turkey
The Turkish flag is a model of simplicity with its crescent and star on a striking red background. Turks are, by their nature, a very patriotic people and they fly their flag, not just from poles, but from apartment balconies, on walls and even draped from window sills as seen here on [...]

Location: Belgium and The Netherlands
Thanks to the Schengen agreement, it’s much easier to cross international frontiers in Europe.  If not for the markings on this bike path, you’d never know you were pedaling around the international borders between Baarle-Hertog and Baarle-Nassau.

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A travel diversion…
Snooping around in some boxes recently, looking for some old research material for a new project I’m pursuing, I found an old thoroughly beaten steno pad. I still use those things for notes and jots and such (old habits die hard), but this particular one contained thoughts, diversions, ideas and sights [...]

It looks like a baby monitor, but the beeping device that tour guide Dennis Zaburin clutches in his hand monitors radiation. The digits on the dosimeter’s display change rapidly, indicating rising and falling danger. Other than the beeps, our footsteps are the only sounds we hear, multiplied as they echo off the abandoned buildings that [...]