I was lucky enough to have traveled through Istanbul this summer on my way to Syria and absolutely loved the city! It is truly one of the ‘world’s cities’ that vibrates as soon as you step into its streets. To add to our luck we were hosted by 2 excellent Couchsurfers, some of the most…
photo from Wikipedia The Christmas season continues here in Spain. While other countries are packing up their Christmas trees, today is traditionally the big celebration for the niños here on the Iberian peninsula. The Feast of Epiphany (January 6th) is the day where the 3 wise men or the 3 kings of the orient, bring…
Ride the rails to the end of the line to a place that feels like a Japanese island invaded by Russians. For the Russians indeed are coming…to buy cars. Twice a week, thousands of cars are ferried across the sea of Japan over to Vladivostok from this sleepy port city to sate the growing eastern…
Photograph: Olaf Kraak/EPA I was browsing the Guardian’s usually stunning 24 hours in pictures section the other day and they had a ‘best of 2008‘ series (actually there are several) and they highlighted an amazing photographer named Uriel Sinai. Definitely not your average travel shots, but that’s the beauty of it.
I recently published a piece on my adopted hometown in the Saturday edition of the Toronto Star. If you are thinking about visiting Spain, click over to the article and make sure to include Caceres in your itinerary.
Before the millennium turned, when the Year 2000 virus was going to be the end as we knew it, I was hiking in Zimbabwe far enough away I had thought from the clutches of the Windows breakdown. I was simply wandering, looking for some petroglyphs that I had heard were in the area but had…
I’m going to try and start a new series on this blog where every Friday a new picture from around the world goes up. In honour of my recent publication on my adopted hometown here in Caceres, here’s my favourite tower. The torre de hierba…10th century Almohad construction that changes colours as the sun goes…
Part 2 in my four part teaching abroad series with Verge Travel Magazine is out and in the stands. This time we move on to some of the practicalities of teaching English in Europe to stretch your time abroad. However, the easy life doesn’t always come so easy, TEFL has its drawbacks. Check out the…
A new issue of the travel magazine Verge is out and I’ve got a few pieces in the current issue. Check out the sidebar on some of the Do’s and Don’ts when traveling in Laos and the first installment of a 4 part series on teaching English abroad. The first piece is aptly named, “Secret…
Troy Nahumko is an award-winning author based in Caceres, Spain. His recent work focuses on travels around the Mediterranean, from Tangiers to Istanbul. As a writer and photographer he has contributed to newspapers and media such as The Globe and Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Toronto Star, The Irish World, The Straits Times, Khaleej…