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        • India
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        • Indochina
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        • Oman
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        • United Arab Emirates
        • Uzbekistan
  • Themes
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  • Cambodia,  Dark tourism,  War

    The Killing Fields of Cambodia

    June 23, 2022 / 61 Comments
    Ornamental gate

    This post contains images and descriptions that some may find disturbing. The Killing Fields of Choeung Ek are not a place that everyone would choose to visit, despite being firmly on the tourist trail in Phnom Penh. But this is part of the recent history of Cambodia, still vivid in the memories of its older generation, and if they can't run away from that past then arguably nor should we.

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    Pink bike helmet with Pinkie logo

    Gallery: motorbike ‘art’ in South East Asia

    December 27, 2021
    Group of people sitting on blue plastic stools in a market

    Gallery: Psar Thmei, Phnom Penh’s Central Market

    February 13, 2022
    White window shutter and green leaves

    Eating out with a conscience in Indochina

    April 17, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries,  War

    Postcards from a time of war

    August 2, 2021 / 43 Comments
    Old postcard of bombed town

    Browsing a flea market in East Berlin many years ago I came across an old postcard, with a pretty painting of forget-me-nots. Turning it over I found, to my surprise, that the message was in English. It was dated 19.6.17 and was sent from BEF France – the British Expeditionary Forces.

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    Small round temple-style structure among trees

    King John was not a good man: Runnymede

    March 21, 2021
    Series of ornate arches with trees beyond

    Gallery: looking out from the shadows

    May 7, 2022
    Scruffy looking shop in wood

    Our Land of Enchantment: the scenic byways of New Mexico

    July 25, 2021
  • Dark tourism,  Jersey,  War

    Jersey under occupation: the War Tunnels

    July 28, 2021 / 22 Comments
    Long empty tunnel with subdued lighting

    In June 1940 France fell to the advancing Nazi army and was occupied. The British government decided that the Channel Islands, just off the Normandy coast, were of no strategic importance and would not be defended. The islands were effectively demilitarised, and the residents were faced with an impossible choice. Should they stay and face occupation or go, leaving behind families, friends and possessions?

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    Empty airport seating area

    Gallery: Wonsan Kalma International Airport sits deserted

    May 7, 2021
    Stone carved with cherubs

    Around the corner in Leipzig: die Runde Ecke

    April 16, 2021
    Looking down on faded yellow-painted buildings

    Campo da Morte Lenta: Camp of the Slow Death

    March 31, 2021
  • England,  Friendly Friday,  War

    Cracking the code at Bletchley Park

    June 19, 2021 / 24 Comments
    Wartime sign about spies

    The first computer my husband and I bought had a memory of around 500 MB. The second seemed a huge advancement at a whole gigabyte! Today I have 32 GB in my phone, i.e. 64 times as much, and 64 GB (128 times as much) in the memory cards I use in my cameras. And yet that first computer of ours was of course a massive advance on the earliest computers.

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    Statues of four young men

    Roll up, roll up! A Magical Mystery Tour

    August 26, 2021
    Stone circle in a landscape with blue sky and white clouds

    A visit to Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain

    June 21, 2022
    Black and white photo of a church with a park in front

    Gallery: seeing Shrewsbury in black and white

    July 11, 2021
  • Cambodia,  Dark tourism,  Just One Person,  People,  War

    Meeting a survivor of S-21, Tuol Sleng

    February 24, 2021 / 24 Comments
    Man seated in front of poster of himself

    When the Khmer Rouge prison Tuol Sleng, in Phnom Penh, was liberated by the invading Vietnamese army in 1979, the guards killed all but a handful of prisoners to try to prevent them telling of the horrors perpetrated there. Chum Mey is just one of thousands who were imprisoned here. He is also just one of a very few to have survived the experience – to have lived to tell that story.

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    Stone ruin surrounded by trees

    Gallery: Ta Prohm, Angkor’s Royal Monastery

    October 7, 2021
    Red lantern, blue wall, green shutters

    2020: my (pandemic) year in review

    January 3, 2021
    Close-up of fried tarantulas

    Gallery: fancy a snack in Spider Town?

    April 30, 2021
  • DPRK,  Sunday Stills,  War

    Commemorating the fallen: the Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery in Pyongyang

    February 10, 2021 / 22 Comments
    Memorials separated with low green hedges and city view beyond

    On a hillside above Pyongyang, commanding a wonderful view of the city, stand row on row of granite blocks, each topped with a bust. The figures portrayed gaze out over the wooded slope of Mount Taesong to the rapidly changing cityscape below. These are North Korea’s fallen, martyrs in the cause of freedom from Japanese occupation.

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    Statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il

    Why go to North Korea?

    September 10, 2020
    Buddhist monk

    Saying prayers for Korean reunification

    June 3, 2021
    Looking down at a station platform

    Taking a ride on the Pyongyang Metro

    July 10, 2021
  • DPRK,  War

    The USS Pueblo at the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum

    January 9, 2021 / 8 Comments
    Elderly man in naval uniform

    An elderly man in naval uniform sits on a bench in the museum grounds. He is eighty years old and is employed by the museum as a guide, although his main duty is simply posing with tourists. To the visiting North Koreans this man is a national hero; while to the relatively few tourists from further afield he is simply an historical curiosity.

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    Large group of dancers in traditional Korean green dress

    Gallery: dancing on the streets of Pyongyang

    November 28, 2020
    Performers in a stadium with a backdrop image of Kim Jong Un

    The Land of the People

    December 13, 2021
    Ornate moss-covered oriental roof

    Another slice of North Korean history in Kaesong

    October 21, 2021
  • England,  Ruins,  War

    Tyneham: a village frozen in time

    September 28, 2020 / 20 Comments
    Ruined houses and white telephone box

    'Please treat the church and houses with care; we have given up our homes where many of us lived for generations to help win the war to keep men free. We shall return one day and thank you for treating the village kindly.'

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    Lake with heron in foreground and large house beyond

    Gallery: a Grey Heron at Osterley Park (and friends)

    July 4, 2021
    Stylised female statue head

    The art on the Tyne

    December 11, 2021
    Large mural of orangutan with a baby

    Gallery: the colourful street art of Brighton

    October 17, 2021
  • Dark tourism,  DPRK,  War

    So who did start the Korean War?

    September 15, 2020 / 12 Comments
    Relief carvings of battle scenes

    History, they say, is told by the victors. But what if there are no victors? What if the war never technically ended? Then, perhaps, each side feels free to tell its own version of history, a version in which they were triumphant.

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    Two large mosaics with portraits of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il

    Gallery: mosaic portraits of a dynasty

    October 21, 2020
    Empty airport seating area

    Gallery: Wonsan Kalma International Airport sits deserted

    May 7, 2021
    Large modern Oriental style building surrounded by trees

    International friendships in North Korea

    June 30, 2022
  • Dark tourism,  Japan,  War

    Finding peace in Hiroshima

    September 7, 2020 / 11 Comments
    School children in the Hiroshima Peace Park

    ‘Excuse me, may we ask you some questions?’ The three school girls spoke in chorus, politely and in good English. We naturally agreed and, armed with a clip-board and a work-book with a set of these questions, they proceeded to ‘interview’ us.

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    Painting of young slave

    Roots: dark history or tourist trap?

    October 29, 2020
    Long empty tunnel with subdued lighting

    Jersey under occupation: the War Tunnels

    July 28, 2021
    Sepia photo of Buzludzha Monument

    Buzludzha Monument

    September 4, 2020

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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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