By now, Westerners traveling in China are common enough that a stroll through Beijing doesn’t draw so much as a curious glance. That is, unless you’re with a seven-year-old boy wearing a baseball cap. Recent trips to Beijing and Shanghai with our son in tow confirmed what veteran China travelers had told me: the Chinese love kids. And if my son’s experience is a guide, kids love China...click to continue
At first glance, the countryside of Tur Abdin resembles the rolling fields of Tuscany adrift at the edge of a desert. There is a distinctly Mediterranean feel: olive, fig, walnut, and pistachio trees are scattered everywhere; women and men riding to market on donkeys, transporting grapes, watermelon, cucumbers, and olives, only add to this illusion...click to continue
