Middle East

Istanbul

Istanbul

A crazy city of 13m people where East meets West, Istanbul has always been a vast, confusing metropolis. Some things never change!

Göreme

Göreme

Leaving the city for the desert: the rocky landscapes of Göreme, a town in Central Anatolia that has become a popular destination for backpackers.

Cairo and Giza

Cairo and Giza

Through the frenetic, dusty Egyptian capital to the great pyramids.

Luxor

Luxor

Into the Valley of the Kings, then on to Deir al-Bahri and the colossal necropolis of Luxor.

Sharm El Sheikh

Sharm El Sheikh

A second trip to Egypt and a busier time of it this year as we packed in a few visits.

Winter holiday in Egypt

Winter holiday in Egypt

The first time we visited Egypt, we discovered the extraordinary beauty of the Red Sea.

Elsewhere on MikePadgett.com …

Syriana

A movie for our times: a challenging look at the many side-effects of crude foreign policy.

  • Originally published: 5 Dec 2006 in Film

Sea of Love

A streetwise city cop thriller that crawls familiar kerbs but more or less delivers the package.

  • Originally published: 2 Apr 2007 in Film

Göreme

Leaving the city for the desert: the rocky landscapes of Göreme, a town in Central Anatolia that has become a popular destination for backpackers.

Finishing FarCry

Finishing FarCry last night brought to an end my long struggle with mutant monkeys, mad professors and obsolete computers. It had been almost a year before I could even play the game after my own mid-spec machine gave up the ghost on all but the lowest display settings available in Ubisoft‘s inaugural next-gen gem. Whilst …

Stouterik

3/5. A solid Belgian stout with strong roasted aroma and surprisingly fruity flavours in amongst the expected sourness.

  • Originally published: 22 Jan 2011 in Beer

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Hello you, I'm Mike Padgett. I'm not a Princeton curator, Knoxville mayoral candidate, Kentuckian pastor or Arizona journalist, I just share the same name. In fact, I am a consultant working in user experience and information design.

I also enjoy travel, concerts, films and walking.

I'm originally from Yorkshire, England but nowadays I live in Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is Black Albert.

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Dopeology.org

Over a year in the making, Dopeology.org is my latest personal project: a topology of doping in thirty years of European pro road cycling.

I collected information from thousands of sources, then I modelled and published it via a lightweight user interface.

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