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  • Destinations
    • England
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      • 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
          • 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
    • 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
      • Lens-Artists
      • Monochrome Madness
      • Nature Photo Challenge
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
      • Squares
      • Sunday Stills
      • The Changing Seasons
      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
        • CFFC
        • CMMC
    • General challenges
      • Happy Place Happy Space
      • Monday walks
      • Words of Wisdom
      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
    • Challenges archive
      • Bird Weekly
      • Friendly Friday
        • The Friendly Friday Challenge: how to join in
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  • Architecture,  History,  Lens-Artists,  Monday walks,  Paris,  Street photography

    A stroll through more of the Marais

    September 18, 2023 / 57 Comments
    Fountain in a small park with elegant houses around

    The Place des Vosges must be one of the most beautiful corners of this beautiful city. Like the Place Dauphine it owes its existence to the city planning ambitions of Henri IV. It was laid out as an elegant residential square where the upper echelons of Parisian society could live and socialise. Much has changed since then, not least due to the Revolution, but it remains as elegant as ever.

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    Terraced fields, shadowy buildings and mountains tinged with pink

    In Bandipur, an ancient hilltop town

    December 20, 2022
    Two white bell towers

    A stroll around Tavira

    April 29, 2022
    Looking across a park to an historic building with a river and modern skyscrapers beyond

    Gallery: what makes a perfect city?

    March 29, 2022
  • History,  Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: where time stands still

    September 10, 2023 / 76 Comments
    Man with a horse and cart passing a low blue painted house

    There are places in the world where time seems to stand still. Places where you can feel the weight of history. Places where the people who came before you seem still to linger, just out of sight and reach.

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    Sepia photo of old houses

    Port Royal, the richest and wickedest city in the world

    May 21, 2021
    Stone statue of man in an overcoat

    A visit to Sofia’s Socialist Art Museum

    October 10, 2022
    Painting of young slave

    Roots: dark history or tourist trap?

    October 29, 2020
  • History,  Paris,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Paris: statue of Henri IV

    September 7, 2023 / 23 Comments
    Bronze statue of a man on a horse

    Henri IV was a much-loved king of France, reigning from 1589 to 1610, when he was assassinated. Baptised a Catholic but raised a Protestant by his mother, he tried to balance the interests of both. Four years after his death a statue of him was placed on the Île de la Cité where it is crossed by the Pont Neuf, facing the Place Dauphine.

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    Small boats on a river with grassy banks and old buildings

    A sunny day out in Cambridge, part one

    July 19, 2022
    A large 1960s style home

    The legacy of Enver Hoxha

    May 13, 2023
    Sign saying Pie Town

    A pit stop in pioneering Pie Town

    June 24, 2021
  • Coast & seascapes,  England,  Monday walks,  Ruins

    Guarding the Solent

    August 7, 2023 / 42 Comments
    Part of a castle wall by water

    Hurst Castle sits at the end of a long shingle spit, jutting out into the Solent opposite the Isle of Wight. At its heart is a Tudor castle, built by Henry VIII to guard the Needles Passage, the gateway to the trading port of Southampton and his new naval base at Portsmouth.

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    Rocky beach and palm trees

    On the Pacific coast in Drake Bay

    February 28, 2022
    Group of men sitting among fishing boats on a beach

    Gallery: a traditional fishing village in Bakau

    April 10, 2021
    Lichen-covered shore and inlet of water with snowy mountains

    Bleak landscapes of Kvaløya Island

    July 7, 2023
  • England,  History,  Monday walks

    A stroll around Buckler’s Hard

    July 18, 2023 / 57 Comments
    Row of brick cottages and a path leading to a river

    If the small Hampshire village of Buckler’s Hard is a little busy today, it is only so with tourists. But there was a time when it would have been a hive of activity. It was once home to a bustling and successful shipbuilding industry. Here three of the warships for Nelson's fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar were built, as well as many other naval ships.

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    Several bridges over a river

    Newcastle: a city and its river

    February 18, 2021
    Stone circle in a landscape with blue sky and white clouds

    A visit to Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain

    June 21, 2022
    Large castle on a rocky outcrop

    The great fort of Bebbanburg

    May 28, 2022
  • Cambodia,  Monday walks,  Ruins

    Angkor Thom, the great city

    July 11, 2023 / 48 Comments
    Line of stone figures carved on a wall crossing a moat

    Although Angkor Wat is the most famous sight in Angkor, it is not the only one by any means, despite the fact that the two names are often used interchangeably. Angkor in fact means ‘city’ and Angkor Wat the ‘city temple’. But there are over a thousand temples, ranging in scale from mere piles of rubble scattered through rice fields to Angkor Wat itself.

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    Red lantern, blue wall, green shutters

    2020: my (pandemic) year in review

    January 3, 2021
    Hand holding knife and straw shavings

    Gallery: getting up close and personal

    September 24, 2021
    White window shutter and green leaves

    Eating out with a conscience in Indochina

    April 17, 2021
  • Culture & tradition,  History,  Lens-Artists,  Sunday Stills,  Themed galleries

    Gallery: kitchens in time and place

    July 4, 2023 / 56 Comments
    Bright yellow gourds on a wooden bench

    A kitchen can tell you a lot about a home. Whether it’s a basic one in a simple home or a much more elaborate one in a grand mansion, the kitchen will reflect not only the physical nature of the house but also the lives of the people who live or lived there.

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    Cobbled street of colourful houses

    Gallery: Guatapé, town of the zócalos

    April 11, 2023

    A postcard from Nepal: Sadhus

    October 27, 2022
    Performers in a stadium with a backdrop image of Kim Jong Un

    The Land of the People

    December 13, 2021
  • Italy,  Lens-Artists,  Ruins

    Fragments of the past in Pompeii and Herculaneum

    June 11, 2023 / 61 Comments
    Ruined columns and distant mountain hidden in cloud

    Sometimes little details can be as evocative as the complete picture, and perhaps never more so than when contemplating the past. Visiting the iconic sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii back in 2007 I found myself as intrigued by the small details of life in these cities as I was in the grand civic buildings.

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    Restaurant with pavement terrace

    Bologna la Grassa: a foodie’s delight

    March 20, 2021
    Two men in fancy dress

    Gallery: Comic and Games festival in Lucca

    November 8, 2020
    View down to an Italian town square and hills beyond

    Postcards from the past: a small town in Italy

    November 14, 2020
  • History,  Norway,  Postcards from the road

    A postcard from Norway: Roald Amundsen

    June 4, 2023 / 25 Comments
    Statue of a man seen from behind with mountain beyond

    In Britain Amundsen is somewhat notorious as the guy who beat Captain Scott to the South Pole. In Norway however, and especially in Tromsø, he is regarded as a national hero.

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    View down to an Italian town square and hills beyond

    Postcards from the past: a small town in Italy

    November 14, 2020
    Terraced fields, shadowy buildings and mountains tinged with pink

    In Bandipur, an ancient hilltop town

    December 20, 2022
    Grassy mounds and statues of sheep

    Around the world in ten photos: day three

    December 19, 2020
  • Architecture,  Bulgaria,  History,  Monday walks

    Koprivshtitsa: a Bulgarian time capsule

    May 22, 2023 / 30 Comments
    Low blue house with tiled roof

    Koprivshtitsa is no ordinary town but rather a time capsule. Several of its houses are associated with significant players in the 1876 April Uprising against Ottoman rule. The uprising failed, but a fire had been ignited. The brutalities committed by the Turks while suppressing it led to widespread condemnation across Europe which was the trigger for the Russo-Turkish War. This ended in Turkish defeat. Thus the April Uprising can be regarded as having eventually achieved its original aim, the liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Empire.

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    Ornate door and building

    Gallery: the doors of Tallinn

    October 24, 2020
    White painted cathedral

    A city shaped by earthquakes

    October 27, 2021
    View of cathedral on far side of river, with large crane

    Rising from the ashes: Notre Dame in 2021

    September 30, 2021
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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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