Adventure

This afternoon my team mate and I, with the children, drove out to a village nearish the Turkish border (2 Turkish airforce planes flew overhead while we were there which was a little disconcerting). We were visiting a lady from the traditional Christian community who has been asking questions.

It was worth the drive- the mountains are always beautiful and we spent the whole time exploring the village and surrounding area. The village is overlooked by 2 of Saddam's 'villas'.

We got to :

*pick and eat figs from their orchard (see extra)
*discover blackberries (rare here)
*bash an almond tree (see extra) until the almonds fell, then gather them
*explore an ancient, ruined church building (see extra)
*climb trees
*play with chickens (the roosters were a little intimidating and were being trained for cock fighting)
*spot all manner of insects and nature