John Hopkins, colourful US novelist who chronicled the louche expat scene in Tangier

Click Here to Read:  John Hopkins, colourful US novelist who chronicled the louche expat scene in Tangier – obituary: A central figure in the group that included Paul and Jane Bowles, he lived in a mud hut in the Marrakesh oasis with a Dutch baroness  on the Telegraph Obituaries May 12, 2021. 
John Hopkins (right) and Joe McPhillips (left) on ‘The White Nile Diaries’, with a white R50 BMW.  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

These mysterious stone structures in Saudi Arabia are older than the pyramids

/Click Here to Read: These mysterious stone structures in Saudi Arabia are older than the pyramids. Researchers think the region’s “mustatils ” form the oldest ritual landscape in the world. But exactly what they were for isn’t clear By Tom Metcalfe on the NBC News website on  April 30, 2021.
Saudi Arabia regions map for use on Wikivoyage, English version.  Image: Peter Fitzgerald Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons..