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Lens Artists Photo Challenge – Shadows & Reflections in Monochrome
Patti has set this weeks challenge and her post can be viewed HERE MB found himself in recent days in The Kingdom of Bahrain, an island state in the Arabian Gulf, a mere stones throw from Qatar. It’s...
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QATAR 2022 FIFA WORLD CUP
The football (real football!) World Cup kicked off on 20 November last and the final was played on Qatar National Day Public Holiday, 18 December 2022. Qatar came in for some ferocious criticism in...
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The KINGDOM of BAHRAIN
Bahrain is only a stone’s throw from Qatar. In days past, it was a twenty-five-minute flight away, but due to certain political shenanigans in 2017, it’s now a circuitous two-flight journey, which...
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Sofia & Maria – Time Moves On
It’s been quite a while, more than two years in fact, since MB updated followers about young Lebanese girls Sofia & Maria and their Qatar-based Middle East (ME) lives. MB bumped into S&F’s mom...
View ArticleTrain to Busan
In July 2023, only a few months back, the US military announced they had moved a nuclear submarine to Busan in the south east tip of South Korea. Days later, North Korean President Kim Jong Un (&...
View ArticleTrain to Busan – Made it!
MB departed flight QR 838 from Doha into Incheon airport concourse, the international airport of Seoul, capital of S Korea. MB was traveling light, just a carry-on bag for his mini-Korea trip to visit...
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BUSAN, KOREA
A sad Busan story was recounted to MB by tour guide Mr Suyang Chang in recent days, concerning a fisherman, a mermaid and a dragon. The fisherman caught a mermaid Princess in his net and soon love...
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Sarajevo – The Jerusalem of Europe
MB took a short trip to Sarajevo, capital city of Bosnia & Herzegovina (B&H) during the recent Eid break. The city has much past and recent history which attracts tourists from all over the...
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Mostar
During MB’s recent seasons trip to Bosnia & Herzegovina, he took a day trip to the historic old town of Mostar. Mostar’s bridge is probably its most famous and loved asset, spanning the Neretva...
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Sarajevo – Religion
MB just corrected a mistake in an earlier ‘Sarajevo’ post. The real reason that Sarajevo is know as the Jerusalem of Europe is because of the coexistence of the major Abrahamic religions in the city,...
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A Sudani Wedding in Cairo
Many moons back, ‘Young Sudan Lad’ (aka YSL) featured in many of MB’s posts, from his days in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. People move on in life and a lot of Nile water may have passed under the bridge...
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A Sudani Wedding in Cairo – The Cave Church
With most of the day still to kill before the evening wedding party, guide & taxi driver Suliman suggested a visit to the Cave Church, in the Coptic Christian area quite close to the Cairo...
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A Sudani Wedding in Cairo – 3 Pyramids & A Sphynx
Did any of you believe for one moment that MB would land in Cairo for any reason and not give you all a full MB account of the Pyramids?! Three Pyramids at Giza. But there’s more to that pic than...
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A Sudani Wedding in Cairo – The Wedding
It was time for the wedding party. MB and BR donned their glad rags and headed to the wedding hall to join a few hundred Sudanis who had traveled from all over the globe to celebrate the wedding of...
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Tashkent, Uzbekistan
In 1219AD Ghengis Khan flattened Tashkent, then part of the Khwarazmian Empire. In early August 2024, MB and daughter MB2 travelled to take a look. Why Uzbekistan MB? And why Tashkent? A Tashkent...
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