Troy Nahumko is an
award-winning author based in Caceres, Spain. His recent work focuses on travels
around the Mediterranean, from Tangiers to Istanbul. As a writer and
photographer he has contributed to newspapers and media such as The Globe and Mail,
The Sydney Morning Herald, The Toronto Star, The Irish World, The Straits
Times, Khaleej Times, DW-World and El Pais.
Adrift for many years, washed up on a man-made steppe in South-Western Spain, far from the overcrowded costas and just far enough away from anywhere. Before setting up camp in his small flaking white house he had traveled through 5 continents and lived on 3 of
them. First crossing the Americas and Europe countless times as an itinerant yet somehow professional musician and using his downtime for in-depth explorations of the time-machine
that is northern Florida. From there to Madrid's tapas bars and the medina in
Fez. He later perfected his Khat chewing technique in the Yemeni capital Sana'a
during the first years of the most recent Gulf War. Next stop was the shores of
the oily Caspian, admiring the west's hypocrisy close up in their 'democratic'
thugpost in Baku, Azerbaijan. After a stop in Iran that was long enough to realize that it isn't
everything they tell you, he opted for the smiles that grace you on the streets
of Vientiane, Laos and the sheer pleasure of a cold Beerlao on the banks of the
Mekong. A brief stop in Tripoli before the springs that supposedly sprang across the Arab world...and now drive west out of Madrid, through the
dehesas of holm oak trees just far enough to think you are in Portugal and you
will find the house.
