Walled cities

These are the city walls in Athens and Istanbul. I wonder which of the cities I visit over the next three weeks will be walled cities?

I'm traveling again for three weeks from this evening - Madrid, Portugal, three cities in Morocco, back to Madrid, then Valencia and Barcelona. I'll look out for the walls and when I get back I'll take some photos of Valletta and Grand Harbour bastions. The concept of the walled city is no longer useful yet the fascination remains.

The middle sea

This is Oceanus in the Museum of Archaeology in Turkey.

I have seized on a new project. I will document all my travels around the Mediterranean sea on a huge chart that I have acquired from the chart office I discovered just across the road from me in Valletta. I will put the chart up on the pristine walls of my renovated flat and gradually fill in the journeys I have been on and will plan in the future. I will also add little snippets about the people in the past whose journeys I cross in my travels.

I have looked back at my blog and some of the early posts will help. My travels this year are directly relevant and in the time that remains to me I will fill in the gaps of the places I have not yet visited.

But for this evening I am off to Ghanafest in Argotti gardens, Floriana, Malta!