Posts/Entries
All posts/entries, for now, from over two decades of global travel. And a few colourful tags, too.
Transylvania, Romania
Rolling rural farmland, Neo-Renaissance & Medieval Dracula castles & Carpathian Mountain resort towns.
Bucharest, Romania
Wide Boulevards. plazas, beat-up Dacias, crumbling & eclectic architecture & gargantuan concrete monstrosities from the infamous Communist era. There’s more to the Romanian capital than a desire to leave.
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Atop 4 hills & the location for the skyline-dominating Tsarevets Fortress, the stunning & historic former medieval capital of the Bulgarian tsars.
Georgia
High in the Eurasian Caucasus, Georgia boasts thousands of years of history, stunning mountain scenery, a unique cuisine & overly hospitable locals.
Armenia
One of the world’s oldest civilizations and the world’s very first Christian nation, Armenia impresses with a pretty capital & an array of medieval UNESCO World Heritage-listed church & monastery complexes.
Uzbekistan
Centre of the historic Silk Road, a country full of dust, unbelievably hospitable locals & even more unbelievably audacious Islamic architectural showstoppers.
Kyrgyzstan
From killing time in the capital Bishkek, a tree infested Soviet-era architectural nirvana in the Russified north, to enjoying the true Central Asia gem of Osh. A look at travel in Kyrgyzstan, the only visa-free ‘Stan.
Kazakhstan
Recapping a winter trip to Kazakhstan, Central Asia’s largest country, including cosmopolitan Almaty, the leafy former capital, & Astana, a.k.a. the Dubai of the Steppes, the futuristic capital on the northern windswept Kazakh steppe, the new petrodollar boom capital for the Central Asian region.
Humourous Signs, China
The meaning is rarely in doubt but the translation leaves a lot to be desired. A collection of humourous signs encountered on a recent trip to China.
China 2015
Recapping a sixth visit to mainland China – including the capital Beijing & the two largest cities in the northeastern & northwestern extremes of the country, Harbin & Urumqi respectively – en route to pastures new in Kazakhstan & Central Asia.
Cairo to Constantinople Exhibition, Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, England
A Exhibition at Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London, England On a recent trip to London, England, I paid a visit to the Queen's Gallery of Buckingham Palace. I hadn't intended to but I'd seen a flyer somewhere over the previous days touting a photography...
London, England (2014)
“It was my first visit to one of my favourite cities in 2 years. I know London pretty well but I still like to find the time to be a tourist when I’m in town.”
2014 || A Look Back
The usual amount of humming & hawing and second-guessing went into selecting 10 pictures from a year of travel & photography for 2014, another busy year in which I somehow managed to travel through 18 countries (but who's counting?). And here they are,...
Scotland Road Trip
A road trip around Scotland is always going to be enjoyable & memorable travel experience. For course it is. But for anyone who travels with photography in mind, Scotland is an especially special treat. It was for me. Click here to see the complete 10-day Scotland...