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        • Paris
      • Germany
      • Iceland
      • Italy
      • Jersey
      • Latvia
      • Norway
      • Portugal
      • Spain
        • Seville
      • Switzerland
      • Ukraine
    • Beyond
      • Africa
        • Botswana
        • Cape Verde
        • Gambia
        • Kenya
        • Madagascar
        • Morocco
        • Namibia
        • Senegal
        • Tanzania
        • Zimbabwe
      • Americas
        • Belize
        • Canada
        • Chile
          • Rapa Nui
        • Colombia
        • Costa Rica
        • Ecuador
          • Galapagos Islands
        • Guatemala
        • Jamaica
        • USA
          • Chicago
          • 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
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    • 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
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    • Travel galleries
  • Postcards from the road
  • Challenges
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      • Monochrome Madness
      • Nature Photo Challenge
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
      • Squares
      • Sunday Stills
      • The Changing Seasons
      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
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        • CMMC
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  • DPRK,  Food & drink,  Nature Photo Challenge

    Apple farming in North Korea

    August 10, 2023 / 42 Comments
    Rows of apple trees and distant mountains

    When you visit North Korea you put yourself in the hands of your guides. There is no option to choose your itinerary day to day beyond the rough outline proposed by your tour company at the time of booking. And even that can change, as we discovered when a tropical storm hit the southern part of the country where we were staying at the time.

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    Two men in a rowing boat

    Keeping North Korea clean and beautiful

    March 13, 2021
    Large modern Oriental style building surrounded by trees

    International friendships in North Korea

    June 30, 2022
    Performers in a stadium with a backdrop image of Kim Jong Un

    The Land of the People

    December 13, 2021
  • Colombia,  Food & drink,  Landscape,  Monday walks

    One of Colombia’s most famous crops

    March 28, 2023 / 52 Comments
    Straw hat with pink hibiscus flower

    Colombia is notorious for a particular crop, but as a visitor you’re not very likely to visit any farm growing that! However, they are very openly proud of their coffee and many farms welcome visitors. We visited a typical farm with a guide, Juan-Paolo, who was a former employee.

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    Engraved gold band

    A postcard from Colombia: finding gold

    February 6, 2023
    Large cobbled square surrounded by low whitewashed buildings

    A stroll around Villa de Leyva

    February 27, 2023
    Ruined building among trees

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

    February 13, 2023
  • Cambodia,  Culture & tradition,  Food & drink,  Just One Person

    Lunch with Mr Noon and his family

    January 13, 2023 / 28 Comments
    A man with a young girl on his shoulders

    Of course the main reason to visit Siem Reap is to see the temples of Angkor. But it’s possible to get ‘templed out’ so it’s good that there are alternative activities and places to explore between temple visits.

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    Group of people sitting on blue plastic stools in a market

    Gallery: Psar Thmei, Phnom Penh’s Central Market

    February 13, 2022
    Header image with two small photos

    Friendly Friday Challenge: think about your viewpoint

    July 1, 2022
    Hand holding knife and straw shavings

    Gallery: getting up close and personal

    September 24, 2021
  • Food & drink,  Kerala,  Sunday Stills

    Gallery: in the Cardamom Hills of Kerala

    May 17, 2022 / 31 Comments
    Smiling lady on a bamboo ladder

    There’s a clue in the name! The Cardamom Hills in Kerala are famous for the growing of their namesake spice and many others besides. Peppercorns, vanilla, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and more are grown on the small farms here. But also coffee and different fruits such as banana, avocado and jack fruit.

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    White window shutter and green leaves

    Eating out with a conscience in Indochina

    April 17, 2021
    Sign saying Pie Town

    A pit stop in pioneering Pie Town

    June 24, 2021
    Limestone building in garden among trees

    Special treats: The Black Swan at Oldstead

    February 2, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  DPRK,  Food & drink

    Eating like honoured guests in North Korea

    December 30, 2021 / 58 Comments
    Elaborately decorated table

    Many people worry, unnecessarily, at the idea of visiting North Korea. Is it safe? Are the rules too strict? Will the food be tasty, and adequate? The latter question is perhaps understandable, given the well-documented periods of famine suffered in the country, but tourists, as honoured guests of the regime, have nothing to fear on that score.

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    Low stone houses on a hillside

    The Birdmen of Rapa Nui

    January 15, 2021
    Yellow gable with image of Bob Marley

    One love: the rhythms of Jamaica

    December 30, 2020
    White hearts with purple trim

    Viva Cuenca: one weekend, three festivals

    January 21, 2021
  • Food & drink,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: cosy coffee breaks around the world

    November 30, 2021 / 53 Comments
    Two cups of coffee

    Sometimes it seems as if Starbucks is taking over the world. Wherever we travel, apart from in North Korea of course, we come across branches of this ubiquitous chain. But we don't go in. Even at home it’s a place we choose to avoid, preferring to support our local independent coffee shops. And when we travel the same rule applies. Even in Seattle, the birthplace of Starbucks, we refused to visit the first ever branch in Pike Place.

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    White window shutter and green leaves

    Eating out with a conscience in Indochina

    April 17, 2021
    Limestone building in garden among trees

    Special treats: The Black Swan at Oldstead

    February 2, 2021
    Smiling lady on a bamboo ladder

    Gallery: in the Cardamom Hills of Kerala

    May 17, 2022
  • 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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    White window shutter and green leaves

    Eating out with a conscience in Indochina

    April 17, 2021
    Two cups of coffee

    Gallery: cosy coffee breaks around the world

    November 30, 2021
    Smiling lady on a bamboo ladder

    Gallery: in the Cardamom Hills of Kerala

    May 17, 2022
  • Cambodia,  Food & drink,  Friday’s Foods of the World,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: fancy a snack in Spider Town?

    April 30, 2021 / 20 Comments
    Close-up of fried tarantulas

    About an hour’s drive north of Phnom Penh lies the small market town of Skun. Normally a town like this would attract little attention from passing tourists, eager to reach the wonders of Angkor beyond. But Skun’s market has a treat in store; although that depends perhaps on your appetite for the unusual.

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    Pink bike helmet with Pinkie logo

    Gallery: motorbike ‘art’ in South East Asia

    December 27, 2021
    Stone ruin surrounded by trees

    Gallery: Ta Prohm, Angkor’s Royal Monastery

    October 7, 2021
    Man seated in front of poster of himself

    Meeting a survivor of S-21, Tuol Sleng

    February 24, 2021
  • Cambodia,  Food & drink,  Friday’s Foods of the World,  Vietnam

    Eating out with a conscience in Indochina

    April 17, 2021 / 22 Comments
    White window shutter and green leaves

    Eating out is undoubtedly one of the great pleasures of a holiday. Sampling the local cuisine; relaxing over a drink at the end of a busy day; enjoying the ambience of a well-run restaurant with perhaps a great view of the landscape or bustling city streets. But eating out is also a luxury in which relatively few in the world are able to indulge.

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    Close-up of fried tarantulas

    Gallery: fancy a snack in Spider Town?

    April 30, 2021
    Line of stone figures carved on a wall crossing a moat

    Angkor Thom, the great city

    July 11, 2023
    A man with a young girl on his shoulders

    Lunch with Mr Noon and his family

    January 13, 2023
  • Cambodia,  Culture & tradition,  Food & drink,  Friday’s Foods of the World

    Exploring the street food of Phnom Penh

    April 3, 2021 / 35 Comments
    Man frying insects at a food stall

    Did you know that the consumption of insects for food has a name, entomophagy? I didn’t, until I visited Cambodia. There, perhaps more than anywhere else, the people actively serve and eat insects. There is a dark reason behind this. Under the Khmer Rouge, much of the population was forced into poverty; and people resorted to feeding on anything they could find.

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    Stone ruin surrounded by trees

    Gallery: Ta Prohm, Angkor’s Royal Monastery

    October 7, 2021
    Line of stone figures carved on a wall crossing a moat

    Angkor Thom, the great city

    July 11, 2023
    Ornamental gate

    The Killing Fields of Cambodia

    June 23, 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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