Travel dilemmas - preview
To fly or not to fly?
I have been working as an archaeologist at Tell Brak in north-east Syria It's easy to fly out – takes about five hours, costs about £300 return and produces about 3,000kg of CO2 Instead, this year my husband and I travelled to Syria by train
We broke for a day in Budapest – a thoroughly charming city where we stayed in the old castle district – and a day in Istanbul, poking about in the suq and exploring the Haghia Sophia The Taurus Express to Aleppo was the most exciting of the train links After breathtaking views of the Armanus Mountains, we chugged south to Aleppo, chatting with other passengers in the corridor as wonderful scenery crept by In Aleppo we took another train to Hassaka, only forty km short of Tell Brak
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