“Book Descriptions: Journey with the author to places without, and within, going on intuition and good fortune, as he seeks to better understand himself and the world at large. Tentatively venturing out to provincial Turkey the year before, he connects with a fellow teacher, Sofian, who extends an invitation to visit him in Algeria for New Year. This is where the story begins. He returns to England restless and disaffected. It is a time to look inwards and reflect. He flies back to Turkey later that year, before leaving England for good in early 2015. Before settling down for a three month stay in Izmit as a guest of Sofian and again to teach English, he travels back to Antakya, a mystical city of antiquity, he first visited two years earlier. He lives and breathes the history and beauty of its cobbled streets and fabled mosques and churches on the banks of the Asi River, also known as the Orontes. His stay is brief but meaningful. He forges a lasting connection with Sister Barbara which will pay dividends in the future. And perhaps, most poignant of all, his recollection is of a city reaching the end of an epoch, for eight years later it will be decimated by the country's worst earthquake for five hundred years. And yet, all is not lost...” DRIVE
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