by Kirsty | Aug 18, 2018 | Abkhazia, Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Photo Essay |
Not the typical tourist attractions: Alternative sightseeing on our travels In no particular order, our priorities on our recent 2½ month trip to the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and Armenia, Georgia and Abkhazia in the Caucasus were as follows:...
by Mark | Jul 20, 2018 | Photo Essay, Taiwan, Travel Shot |
Plus, a short history of cosplay and how one of the greatest movies of all time got its name … There’s a blood-red shrine in Tainan dedicated to the great Ming-era general, Koxinga. At weekends it becomes a meeting place for DSLR-wielding photographers. Their subject...
by Mark | Jul 2, 2018 | Off the Beaten Path, Photo Essay, Taiwan |
I’m not sure what it is these days, but we seem to spend more and more of our time searching for vintage planes, trains and automobiles (there’s got to be a film in there somewhere!). We’ve seen brightly-coloured Soviet-era locomotives in Belarus, weird and wonderful...
by Mark | Apr 29, 2018 | Cambodia, Photo Essay |
The Cambodian coastal town of Kampot still has a healthy dose of French colonial-era architecture. Some have been restored and turned into boutique hotels, cozy restaurants and the like while others remain in a dilapidated state of disrepair. The centre of town, just...
by Mark | Apr 26, 2018 | Photo Essay, Ukraine |
Deciphering the history behind Soviet-era plaques This wasn’t supposed to be a long post. Kirsty and I saw these Soviet-era symbols on the side of the PJSC Ukrtelecom (Ukrainian National Telecommunications Operator) building while wandering around Zhytomyr. We liked...
by Mark | Apr 1, 2018 | Malaysia, Photo Essay |
A Collection of Weathered Window Shutters spotted in Penang’s vibrant George Town Someone once told me to always remember to look up when walking around a city. It’s a good bit of advice, which has stuck for as long as I can remember. The likelihood of getting a stiff...
