Balkan Wargamer

 The Istanbul Aviation Museum is appropriately based on the edge of the old Istanbul Airport, used mainly by private and cargo jets these da...

I spent most of last week in Istanbul and visited no less than eight history museums. I can't think of any city better equipped. One of ...

 I was in Edirne (Adrianople) yesterday. First, I went out to see the likely site of the Battle of Adrianople. The AD378 version was when th...

 My painting this week has included a squadron of Royal Navy ships for operations around Cyprus in 1974. The Royal Navy did not actually fir...

 If I was pairing an opponent with a Viking, my first thought would be Anglo-Saxon. Mainly as I am a few episodes into the new series of the...