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  • Home
  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
      • Austria
      • Bulgaria
      • Estonia
      • France
        • Paris
      • Germany
      • Iceland
      • Italy
      • Jersey
      • Latvia
      • Norway
      • Portugal
      • Spain
        • Seville
      • Switzerland
      • Ukraine
    • Beyond
      • Africa
        • Botswana
        • Cape Verde
        • Gambia
        • Kenya
        • Morocco
        • Namibia
        • Senegal
        • Tanzania
        • Zimbabwe
      • Americas
        • Belize
        • Canada
        • Chile
          • Rapa Nui
        • Colombia
        • Costa Rica
        • Ecuador
          • Galapagos Islands
        • Guatemala
        • Jamaica
        • USA
          • New Mexico
          • New York City
          • Washington State
      • Asia
        • DPRK
        • India
          • Kerala
          • Rajasthan
        • Indochina
          • Cambodia
          • Laos
          • Vietnam
        • Japan
        • Nepal
        • Oman
        • Syria
        • United Arab Emirates
        • Uzbekistan
  • Themes
    • Architecture
    • Art
      • Crafts
      • Street art
    • Colour
    • Dark tourism
    • Eco-tourism
    • Food & drink
    • Gardens
    • History
      • Ruins
      • War
    • Landscape
      • Coast & seascapes
      • Deserts
      • Mountains
      • Rivers
    • Nature and wildlife
      • Animals
      • Birds
      • Plants
        • Flowers
        • Trees, forests and woodland
    • People
      • Culture & tradition
      • Street photography
    • Travel in general
  • Photo galleries
    • Themed galleries
    • Travel galleries
  • Postcards from the road
  • Challenges
    • Photography challenges
      • Just One Person
      • Lens-Artists
      • Mid-week Monochrome
      • Monochrome Madness
      • Nature Photo Challenge
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
      • Squares
      • Sunday Stills
      • The Changing Seasons
      • Words of Wisdom
      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
        • CFFC
        • CMMC
    • General challenges
      • Monday walks
      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
    • Challenges archive
      • Bird Weekly
      • Friendly Friday
        • The Friendly Friday Challenge: how to join in
      • Friday’s Foods of the World
      • Life in Colour
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
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  • About me
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  • Architecture,  Colombia,  History,  Monday walks

    A stroll around Villa de Leyva

    February 27, 2023 / 34 Comments
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low whitewashed buildings

    Colombia’s Villa de Leyva is one of those places where time seems to have stopped still. Or at least, it would seem that way were it not for the large number of visitors, both Colombian and international, who descend on the town to see its perfectly preserved colonial architecture and huge main square. This is a town that is as much museum as place to live.

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    Modern white building with moat

    Gallery: cool architecture, cool colours

    May 24, 2021
    Statue of a female figure on a building

    Gallery: on the streets of Vienna

    July 15, 2022
    Looking up at a spiral staircase

    Gallery: monochrome curves

    March 20, 2022
  • Colombia,  Photographing Public Art,  Street art,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: the street art of Candelaria, Bogota

    February 24, 2023 / 43 Comments
    Colourful mural street art depicting two women

    If I had to choose a single word to associate with Colombia, it would be ‘colour’. Nowhere else, I believe, have I seen so many brightly painted houses as in some of its villages. And as for street art, I firmly believe the Colombians are obsessed!

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    Ruined building among trees

    A postcard from Colombia: Pablo Escobar’s former lakeside retreat

    February 13, 2023
    Face of a sloth among large leaves

    A postcard from Colombia: a three-toed sloth in a city park

    February 17, 2023
    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023
  • Colombia,  Flowers,  Lens-Artists,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: soft orchids from Colombia

    February 22, 2023 / 59 Comments
    Soft focus image of a dramatic flower

    While a flower is transient, our images capture the memory of it forever. Maybe that’s why so many of us love to photograph them.

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    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low white buildings

    A postcard from Colombia: Villa de Leyva

    February 8, 2023
    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 2023
  • Animals,  Colombia,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Colombia: a three-toed sloth in a city park

    February 17, 2023 / 48 Comments
    Face of a sloth among large leaves

    Last February we travelled to Costa Rica, hoping (among other things) to see sloths. And we did. But it never occurred to me to hope to see them in one of Colombia's biggest cities.

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    Red and black igiana

    The ‘Christmas’ marine iguanas of Española Island

    December 6, 2020
    Hazy view of bamboo clump

    Periyar’s monkeys, elephants, bison and more

    October 4, 2021
    Back of whale with mountainous coast behind

    Thar she blows – eventually!

    July 7, 2021
  • Colombia,  Colour,  Postcards from the road,  Street art

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 2023 / 37 Comments
    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    Many of the houses in Guatapé are decorated with friezes along the lower portion, known as zócalos.

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    Soft focus image of a dramatic flower

    Gallery: soft orchids from Colombia

    February 22, 2023
    Monkey looking down from a branch

    Gallery: pick a word (March 2023)

    March 18, 2023
    Black and white photo of a hibiscus flower

    Gallery: seeing Colombia in black and white

    March 16, 2023
  • Colombia,  Dark tourism,  Postcards from the road,  Ruins

    A postcard from Colombia: Pablo Escobar’s former lakeside retreat

    February 13, 2023 / 34 Comments
    Ruined building among trees

    On the shores of the El Peñol-Guatapé Reservoir the infamous Colombian cocaine drug-lord Pablo Escobar built a lavish estate which he named La Manuela, after his daughter.

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    Two women in colourful traditional dress looking at mobile phones

    Gallery: a February selection (2023)

    March 3, 2023
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low whitewashed buildings

    A stroll around Villa de Leyva

    February 27, 2023
    Soft focus image of a dramatic flower

    Gallery: soft orchids from Colombia

    February 22, 2023
  • Colombia,  History,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Colombia: Villa de Leyva

    February 8, 2023 / 30 Comments
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low white buildings

    Villa de Leyva was founded in 1572 by the Spaniards, and is considered one of the most beautiful colonial villages in Colombia.

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    Colourful mural street art depicting two women

    Gallery: the street art of Candelaria, Bogota

    February 24, 2023
    Soft focus image of a dramatic flower

    Gallery: soft orchids from Colombia

    February 22, 2023
    Colourfully painted houses on a cobbled street

    A postcard from Colombia: a street corner in Guatapé

    February 15, 2023
  • Colombia,  History,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Colombia: finding gold

    February 6, 2023 / 35 Comments
    Engraved gold band

    Bogota's Gold Museum, El Museo del Oro, holds a stunning collection of pre-Columbian gold and other metals.

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    Soft focus image of a dramatic flower

    Gallery: soft orchids from Colombia

    February 22, 2023
    Balconies with Comuna 13 in large colourful letters

    Finding peace in Medellín

    March 6, 2023
    Face of a sloth among large leaves

    A postcard from Colombia: a three-toed sloth in a city park

    February 17, 2023
  • London,  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  The Changing Seasons,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: a January selection (2023)

    February 2, 2023 / 40 Comments
    Bare tree and water with stone pier and small lighthouse

    Thankfully this January didn’t bring snow to London, but it was certainly more than cold enough to make any feet and fingers glow! Personally I can’t wait for the warmer days of spring, although we’re not hanging around here for that but are headed elsewhere in a hunt for heat!

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    People sitting on a bench looking at a city view

    Gallery: welcome to my wonderful world

    June 20, 2021
    Large palace with lots of people and flower bads

    Gallery: a farewell to a monarch

    September 16, 2022
    Purple flower against a bright green backdrop

    Gallery: a November (and October) selection

    December 1, 2022
  • Architecture,  History,  Monday walks,  Nepal

    A walk in Patan, the City of Beauty

    February 1, 2023 / 40 Comments
    View over group of brick temples with tiered tiled roofs

    Patan is said to be one of the oldest Buddhist cities in the world. It is also known as Lalitpur, which means the City of Beauty. The name recognises its tradition of arts and crafts which continue to define the city.

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    Buddhist monk

    Saying prayers for Korean reunification

    June 3, 2021
    Lake with palace on the hill beyond

    The Palace of Bundi: Kipling’s ‘work of goblins’

    November 18, 2020
    Part of a cathedral with blue skies

    Catedral de Santa María de la Sede: Seville’s cathedral

    January 15, 2022

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Some favourite photos

Man in a turban with fishing nets
Fisherman in Fort Kochi, Kerala
Two elephants in long grass
Okavango elephants
Blue glacier edge
Glacier Grey, Torres del Paine, Chile
Elderly woman in black hat and sunglasses
In Santiago, Chile
Very large statues of North Korean Leaders
Statues of the Great Leaders on Mansudae Hill, Pyongyang
Water reflecting the sky with clouds and low sun
Approaching sunset in the Okavango Delta
Feet of huge metal sculpture, with man standing beside
The feet of the Angel
Large moai with row of more behind
The ‘travelling moai’ and Ahu Tongariki
Man in knitted hat by water, black and white photo
Waiting for the ferry, Banjul
Mountain reflected in a lake
On the road to Dyrholaey
Sunset at Wahiba Sands, Oman
Squirrel with a conker in his mouth
In Walpole Park, Ealing
Silhouette of a man in a gateway
Looking out from Bundi Palace
Blue and pink bird on a dead tree
Lilac-breasted Roller, Chobe NP, Botswana
Buddhist monk in orange robes with mobile phone
Monk at Wat Nong Sikhounmuang, Luang Prabang
Man sleeping in a tuk tuk by a carved stone wall
Tuk tuk driver by the Terrace of the Leper King
Close up of flamingo with head tucked under
Flamingo (Jersey Zoo)
Lady with baskets of fruit sitting by a canal
In Hoi An, Vietnam
Small fishing boat with a man in it, on a large lake
Lake Atitlan
Wet street and two people with bright pink umbrella
Street in Lucca, rainy day – edited

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