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      • Spain
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      • Ukraine
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        • Cape Verde
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        • Kenya
        • Morocco
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        • Senegal
        • Tanzania
        • Zimbabwe
      • Americas
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        • Canada
        • Chile
          • Rapa Nui
        • 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
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    • History
      • Ruins
      • War
    • Landscape
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    • Nature and wildlife
      • Animals
      • Birds
      • Plants
        • Flowers
        • Trees, forests and woodland
    • People
      • Culture & tradition
      • Street photography
    • Travel in general
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    • Travel galleries
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  • Challenges
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      • Just One Person
      • Lens-Artists
      • Mid-week Monochrome
      • Monochrome Madness
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
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      • Sunday Stills
      • The Changing Seasons
      • Words of Wisdom
      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
        • CFFC
        • CMMC
    • General challenges
      • Monday walks
      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
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  • Crafts,  New Mexico

    ‘While you were watching TV’

    May 20, 2022 / 28 Comments
    Sign saying Tinkertown

    On the slopes of Sandia Peak, above Albuquerque in New Mexico, we found a most unusual sight. As soon as I read about this quirky museum I knew that it was a ‘must see’. We both love those idiosyncratic places that seem to define a US road trip for us; and this is one of the best we have come across.

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    Man's hands working with tin

    Using our hands: handicrafts around the world

    April 27, 2021
    Tiles painted with a bull's head

    Gallery: Majolica, the ceramic tiles of Seville

    November 27, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  New Mexico

    Gallery: the Very Large Array

    May 16, 2022 / 25 Comments
    Line of white telescope dishes on a grassy plain with distant mountains

    The massive radio telescopes of the Very Large Array, 27 of them, rise majestically out of New Mexico’s vast, otherwise almost empty, Plains of San Augustin like visitors from another world. But these are not visitors from another world, but searchers for such a world.

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    Sepia photo of man in front of a poster of himself

    Gallery: when (if ever) are we over the hill?

    September 25, 2022

    Seen better days: the ruined villages of Oman

    October 2, 2021
    Balloon over a desert landscape

    Reaching for the sky again in Africa

    April 18, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  Landscape,  Monday walks,  New Mexico

    In the footsteps of the Anasazi: Tsankawi

    May 3, 2022 / 35 Comments
    Rock face with small caves and bushes

    One reason for our planning to spend several days in Santa Fe on our New Mexico road trip was to visit nearby Bandelier National Monument. I had read a lot about it and knew it was just the sort of place we would enjoy visiting. Then a few months before our visit a wildfire swept through the area, devastating over 146,000 acres, including about 60% of Bandelier’s area. Almost all of the monument was closed to visitors.

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    Two men in fancy dress

    Gallery: Comic and Games festival in Lucca

    November 8, 2020
    Three women in red checked fabric wraps

    The Maasai people of the Ngorongoro Crater

    January 25, 2021
    Stone and wood built temple surround a square with children and pigeons

    In Kathmandu’s Durbar Square

    November 19, 2022
  • Architecture,  History,  Monday walks,  New Mexico

    A stroll around Las Vegas

    October 19, 2021 / 36 Comments
    Row of old shops and cafes

    No, not THAT one! Did you know that there’s another Las Vegas, in New Mexico? But unlike its more famous glitzy namesake this one is an appealing mix of slightly down-at-heel with trying-hard-to-revive itself.

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    Looking across a park to an historic building with a river and modern skyscrapers beyond

    Gallery: what makes a perfect city?

    March 29, 2022
    Closed sign on a shop door

    Gallery: when one door closes …

    June 20, 2022
    Modern white building with moat

    Gallery: cool architecture, cool colours

    May 24, 2021
  • History,  Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  New Mexico

    Our Land of Enchantment: the scenic byways of New Mexico

    July 25, 2021 / 27 Comments
    Scruffy looking shop in wood

    New Mexico dubs itself the ‘Land of Enchantment’ and indeed we were enchanted. What delighted us most was the variety. In two and a half weeks we saw natural wonders and man-made. We followed trails worn down over the centuries by the moccasin-clad feet of early inhabitants; and sat in the cramped confines of a Mercury capsule. We marvelled at the legends of those early Native Americans, and at the tales of aliens crashing near Roswell.

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    Faded photo of low stone house set in a garden

    Out of Africa: visiting Karen Blixen’s home

    March 16, 2021
    Old bus and motor garage

    Stepping back in time: living history at Beamish

    September 23, 2021
    Grassy mounds with stone sheep

    A rare glimpse of history in North Korea

    October 14, 2021
  • Food & drink,  History,  New Mexico

    A pit stop in pioneering Pie Town

    June 24, 2021 / 18 Comments
    Sign saying Pie Town

    When I saw Pie Town on the map I knew we had to go there! Any town named after food has to be worth a visit, yes? And while getting to Pie Town involves a long drive across the empty plains of western New Mexico, for us the effort was well rewarded.

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    Restaurant with pavement terrace

    Bologna la Grassa: a foodie’s delight

    March 20, 2021
    Dark table with lots of small dishes

    Gallery: Dining in (Japanese) style ~ kaiseki

    March 6, 2021
    Limestone building in garden among trees

    Special treats: The Black Swan at Oldstead

    February 2, 2021
  • Friendly Friday,  History,  New Mexico

    Getting our kicks in Santa Rosa, NM

    June 15, 2021 / 19 Comments
    Brightly painted yellow car raised on a platform

    As we approached Santa Rosa on Interstate 40 the heavens opened and for about ten minutes we drove through a downpour so heavy that it was almost impossible to see the road or any other vehicle on it – scary stuff. Maybe the elements were finding a way to punish the road that almost destroyed one of the most iconic of all American cultural icons, Route 66.

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    Mountain road with car on verge

    Following the High Road to Taos

    February 14, 2021
    Large group of teenagers

    My first taste of adventure: a 1970s camping trip

    August 14, 2021
    Wartime sign about spies

    Cracking the code at Bletchley Park

    June 19, 2021
  • History,  Landscape,  Monday walks,  New Mexico

    In the footsteps of the Mogollon at Gila Cliff Dwellings

    May 31, 2021 / 24 Comments
    Looking out from a cave towards valley with pine trees

    Standing here and looking out over the valley, you have the same view a Mogollon would have had, centuries ago. For thousands of years, groups of nomadic people had used these caves to provide temporary shelter. Until, in the late 1200s, some people of the Mogollon culture decided this would be a good place to call home. They built rooms, crafted pottery and raised children in the cliff dwellings for about twenty years. Then the Mogollon moved on, leaving the walls of their homes still standing.

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    View of a town on a bay with mountains behind

    Chongjin, a very different North Korean city

    March 5, 2021
    Ceramic tiles with blue border and brown lion and castle

    A visit to the Real Alcázar of Seville

    December 29, 2021
    Old bus and motor garage

    Stepping back in time: living history at Beamish

    September 23, 2021
  • History,  New Mexico

    The truth is out there: the Roswell Incident

    March 11, 2021 / 32 Comments
    Lamp post shaped like alien head

    Roswell would be a totally unremarkable town were it not for a single event - an event that quite possibly didn’t even happen, or at least not in the way that many believe it to have done. In the summer of 1947 a local man found some odd-looking debris on a ranch some 30 miles north of the town. Many of those who believe in UFOs are convinced that he had found a crashed spaceship, complete with its alien pilot who died in the crash. Sceptics are equally convinced that…

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    Looking over an Italian hill town

    The Palio della Balestra in Gubbio: a centuries-old tradition

    November 26, 2020
    Grassy mounds with stone sheep

    A rare glimpse of history in North Korea

    October 14, 2021
    Large stone in a field

    A stroll around Avebury’s stone circle

    June 28, 2022
  • Architecture,  Friendly Friday,  History,  Landscape,  New Mexico

    Following the High Road to Taos

    February 14, 2021 / 15 Comments
    Mountain road with car on verge

    There are two ways to get to Taos from Santa Fe. There is the quicker (but still pretty) Low Road, and the more dramatically scenic and historically interesting High Road. This winds through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains through high desert, forests and tiny communities. On the way there are stories to be discovered, stunning landscapes to marvel at and picture-perfect churches to explore.

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    Large wooden curved structure

    Gallery: Seville’s mushrooms, art or architecture?

    December 4, 2021
    Looking up at a white stone church with several domes

    Le Sacré Coeur de Paris

    April 10, 2022
    Large yellow building with white window details and ornamentation

    Rundāle, the Baltic Versailles?

    August 18, 2022
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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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