Dear Steemit Friends: Discovering Selime Monastery and Goreme horse ranches As you'll discover with me today, this land's cave dwellings were shaped by ancient settlers. Welcome back friends, to my discovery

I've often driven past Galgorm Castle, but never ventured past the gates. This St Patrick's day I though I'd venture a bit closer and have a quick look. The castle is situated a mile outside the town of

Woke with a bit of a hangover, so there was nothing else for it but a drive up into the Antrim hills to a snowy Ballyboley forest. Some pictures... This might be an entry for the black & whit

Exploring makes you hungry. If you're exploring Belfast on a frosty weekend morning, drop in to the city's St George's market. It's (officially, award-winningly) one of the best indoor markets in the UK

I've been threatening a Belfast pub-crawl for some time. Let's start early doors, with a lunchtime pint in Robinson's bar in Great Victoria Street. If you've just arrived at the bus station across the

I was in Belfast early on Sunday morning. It was cold, bright, and quiet, so I thought it would be a great time to show you round... We'd spent the night in a hotel in the city, at the edge of its Cathedral

I've walked you around Blackhead before, but this is a great chance to blow off the Christmas cobwebs! It's sleeting as we climb to the lighthouse. The sky to the east is the colour of lapis lazuli. But

In January 1877 Claude Monet settles in Paris near the station Saint Lazare. He then paints a series of 12 paintings of different points of view representing different places of the station. This is his

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Sooo… out of fourteen sonnets, picked to illustrate the form and its evolution in English-language poetry, not one was by a woman. I need to explain myself, if not defend myself. The history of an art

It's the holiday season, and we want to make your feasts more epic than ever! We have an inspired line of Über Dank Pantry preserves that can turn any meal into a festive celebration, and we offer them

I am posting this in the hope of reaching readers especially from the US, so they have a chance to reevaluate their opinions about Iran--the land of many misconceptions and one sided reporting. I have

Our fourteen days of sonnets comes to an end with Kavanagh’s great disciple and successor, Seamus Heaney. A lover and master of the form, Heaney produced a number of sonnet sequences at key points in his

We're halfway through, and we turn to Shakespeare again, Sonnet 129. We talked yesterday about how the Elizabethan poet was a player with (or of?) conventions, givens. That’s how the culture worked, a

Good afternoon Steemians, I don't know how else to say this, so I am just going to say it. I found someone undertaking quite an initiative, and I want to get the word out. I noticed a fellow Steemian using

Exploring Off The Beaten Path In Istanbul It is always a fun adventure to leave the main city streets and attractions to discover the side streets and byways.  Discover Istanbul from the eyes of the

It's been a couple of months since I blogged here - mainly because I was off on an adventure, exploring Iran. I thought I'd share some thoughts and observations and, of course, some photographs... We flew

Over the brow of a slight rise from Lindisfarne castle, a long spit of shingle has been transformed into an alien landscape... At first, I thought it was just one cairn. Then I saw another, and another.

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Leaving Newcastle behind, I followed the coast north to Lindisfarne, where the famous Holy Island is linked to the mainland by a long causeway. Twice each day the incoming tide drowns the road. But this