Photo Essay: The Sinai Desert
The Sinai desert is a place of many colours. The green palms of desert oases; the rich gold wind-rippled peaks of sand dunes. The wasteland...
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What Does A Kid Do For Four Days In The Desert?
What DO you do for four days in the Sinai desert, if you’re an eleven-year-old kid? You roll down dunes, slide down dunes, swim down...
The Friday Photo: On the Roof in Dahab, Egypt
It’s been ten years since we last visited Dahab. And, though it was firmly on the banana pancake trail back then, the miasma of hippie...
The Friday Photo: Tower Bridge
We’ve spent most of this week being tourists in London, which used to be our home town. And Tower Bridge, the late Victorian edifice that...
The Friday Photo: Ready For Some Beach
The beaches in Kuta, Lombok, where we learned to surf, are some of the prettiest I’ve seen in Indonesia — even including the wonders of...
The Friday Photo: Sofia Cathedral
Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, isn’t on many people’s bucket lists. But the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, an enormous Byzantine revival edifice erected to celebrate the...
A Balkan Train Ride
Is it possible to feel sorry for a train? Watching this little steam engine freezing in the snow at Bansko station, I almost did… The...
A Beach. England. January. Are We Mad?
There is something extremely English about a trip to the beach in winter. Our beaches, like our weather, our teeth and vast swathes of our...
The Friday Photo: Black Swan, Gold Carp
At the panda sanctuary in Chengdu, the city where we spent Halloween, the lake is full of koi carp. Scatter food on the surface of...
The Friday Photo: Autumn Wildflowers in Tiger Leaping Gorge
Trekking the world’s deepest gorge in mid-October, pushing two miles above sea level, you don’t expect to see wildflowers. But in Tiger Leaping Gorge, in...