My buttocks are hurting, and I am exhausted after cycling for four hours. Of course, everyone recommends building up strength after the winter break...

Rotterdam is the only city in the world where shops sell shirts with the sleeves already rolled up. It’s a city that prides itself...

Kazakhstan, May 2009 During the two days spent out in the steppe in Kazakhstan I couldn’t help but notice the sheer number of flowers...

So back to before the previous Kazakhstan post we go, just to confuse the heck out of you and make it impossible to keep...

After our relatively short trip from Astana to the Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserve made long by we birders insisting that we stop for every...

After a filling breakfast our motley crew was issued the Swarovski scopes and tripods that would be ours to use for the next several...