I Rest My Case
Seen from the window of a minibus, heading out of Diyarbakir on a day trip to the Neolithic site of Çayönü. As was this roundabout monument, which I must admit puts the twelve foot high gopher in Regina’s Wascana Park to shame. In fact, I think it even beats…
Land of Buttermilk and Daisies
So why Kurdistan? As readers of previous posts may have gathered, I am here location scouting for my second novel, Astra. Without giving too much of the plot away, the book is set a century from now, after global warming has rendered much of the planet unfit for human habitation and the survivors of the catastrophe are slowly trying to…