'The Iris takes its name from the Greek word for rainbow; it was also the name for a beautiful young Greek goddess who legend explains rode around on rainbows carrying messages for the Gods.' On a wet and breezy Friday in February 2022, a few of us weekend adventure seekers took off to see the wild Iris of Tumayr. Tumayr is a district north of Riyadh, about one and a half hours along Route 65. When we turned off the main road at Junction 11, we bumped along a dirt road till

“I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point, I'm one of the few people who will tell the truth about myself” T.E. Lawrence... There is a brilliant 1994 tourism commercial with a suitably catchy campaign slogan for Northern Australia that goes something like this... “you will never never know if you never never go!...” So in January 2021, the first name that jumped off the map