From the 2010 archives: Like modern gypsies we wandered Europe looking for a way home. When the Eyjafjallajökull volcano erupted in Iceland the ash shut airspace especially across the Atlantic. I was one of those stranded in Europe. My flight out of Athens was...
In 2007 I was caught in Bangladesh during Cyclone Sidr. After the storm passed I covered the wreckage and recovery. Here’s a web post from that time plus a radio documentary I produced. The photo features me shooting video of an aid worker in a very leaky boat. This...
Mount Athos is the Christian Tibet, a place that time forgot. This finger of land in north eastern Greece is the other side of the wardrobe Lucy used to enter Narnia. Except here, no one named Lucy is allowed. For 1,000 years the Holy Mountain’s old growth forests and...