July 2021
DailyCamera.comRemembering Iran, where the unexpected happens
Remembering Iran, where the unexpected happens
As Americans, we were cautioned to stay in groups of at least two or three and not to wander far from our hotel.
The U.S. and Iranian governments were aware of our exchange, and while it wasn’t without risk considering the political strife between our countries, they had given us the green light.
https://www.dailycamera.com/2021/07/07/remembering-iran-where-the-unexpected-happens/
October 2020
Fair ObserverIran through the eyes of Polish travel writer Kamila Napora
“… I was invited to people’s houses for dinner, I was invited to join them in restaurants, and locals bought me Iranian dishes so I could try them out. It was one of the experiences I will never forget.”
July 2020
Irish ExaminerPersonal Insights: From Kinsale to Iran and the human kindness I will never forget
We are in Balochistan; an area the size of France which is neither a country nor state, but a region that embraces the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Seldom visited by tourists, it is a bleak, brown, arid, rocky desert and mountainous region; populated by millions of fiercely independent Baluchis, denied a nationhood by colonialists, who carved up their lands as spoils of war a century ago.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-40017848.html