A few rare Friday afternoons when we weren’t working, we went out to explore the local area…

Off on a walk down to the river…

Stone skimming contest, obviously.

Cracked dry mud – all crunchy under your feet!

This bit looked like huge slabs of chocolate!

Guess who had to crawl over the log bridge – terribly bad balance, I just knew I’d fall in otherwise!

Off to the local castle/museum…

This castle is oddly small when you see it up close – somehow slightly out of proportion!

Check out this incredible tea pot!

View from the roof..

Hanging with some Kurdish ladies and admiring all their bling…

This group of peeps just happened to be posing for a photo when I walked by. They looked exactly like a publicity shot for a new Channel 4 reality tv show – like “The only way is Kurdish” or something similar..