ADRIAN J BOAS

Being on such intimate terms with the soil and its summer dryness one is ever surprised by the richness of its bounty. Rabei brings nine...

The path down to the castle is partly the workmanship of winter rains, partly of man. On either side the forest rises, low, dark, dense,...

I suppose this post is the outcome of the exhausting walk back from the castle (this week we are without the 4 by 4 jeep that had made...

As we approach the floor of the basement below Montfort's Grand Hall, exposing the huge and beautifully cut ashlars, the first fragments...

I recall once seeing a display in a travel agency shop window. It consisted of colourful paper cups filled with sand that had been taken...

The old joke that the camel is the creation of a committee points mainly to the more than bizarre physiognomy of this animal, but in...

There are few places more beautiful than this. The sun rising over the hills east of the castle is a silver disc and around it is...

In my youth summer meant spending a great deal of time at the beach, swimming, exploring rock pools, poking beached jellyfish, walking...

On 29 March 1926, the first workday of the first ever excavation of a crusader castle, William Calver decided that the best location to...

The esteemed French Historian, Jacques Le Goff regarded the crusader movement as having had very little influence on the cultural and...

Unfinished things have their own special qualities, a certain melancholy that probably emanates from the way in which they point to...

I grew up to admire the explorers who crossed the deserts of Australia, bravely faced its challenges and opened the continent through...

We have a tendency to judge people by first impressions. It is often the case that our having done well or poorly at the outset will...

My parents once purchased new dining room furniture: a cherry-wood table, chairs and a large glass-windowed display cabinet. It was...

Whenever my father heard a statement by a politician he did not approve of, or by some acquaintance expressing a political or other...

The heat is rising, though not yet unbearable. Our minibus carries us along a narrow dirt road, billowing dust across the fields as we...

- In memoriam - Yitzhak (Yitzhaki) Cohai - On an afternoon boat ride along the coast from Latchi north of Paphos I am spellbound by the...

I am in Paphos for a couple of days. This town in the south-west of Cyprus has often been on the receiving end of bad press. Those...

My late cat, Peter, now in eternal rest under an arbutus tree between the two moats of Montfort Castle, was, like most of his species, a...

It is customary for national leaders when visiting one another to bring gifts, items of great or little value, though generally useless...