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The Friday Photo: Bedouin Ingenuity
Posted on May 4, 2012 | 2 CommentsBack when we did our Sinai desert trip, we came across this amazing table. Get a load of it! In its stylish, zinc clad elegance, casually laid on a Bedouin...
Photo Essay: Market Day in a Small Egyptian Town
Posted on April 30, 2012 | 12 CommentsOn market day the little Nileside town of Daraw comes alive in a chaos of stalls and traffic. Nubian men in pristine robes squeeze their way between tuk-tuks and stalls...
The Friday Photo: Our Favourite Temple?
Posted on April 27, 2012 | No CommentsAfter clambering through the pyramids, visiting the wonders of Luxor, and exploring Aswan, Abu Simbel and other Nile sites, I’m still struggling to work out what our favourite temple is....
The Friday Photo: HOW Many Camels?
Posted on April 20, 2012 | 8 CommentsThe little town of Daraw is famous for its weekend camel market. It was just an ordinary market day when we visited while sailing a felucca down the Nile, and...
The Friday Photo: Texting on Mount Sinai
Posted on March 23, 2012 | 10 CommentsThis is a timeless scene. A Bedouin man in traditional scarf and djellaba reclines in the sun on the top of Mount Sinai, the place where his namesake Moses received...
Photo Essay: The Sinai Desert
Posted on March 22, 2012 | 20 CommentsThe 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 that Moses and Jesus wandered...
The Friday Photo: Bedouin Man, Sinai
Posted on March 16, 2012 | 4 CommentsEid is 35, but looks older. As a child he worked in the Sinai desert, tending the family’s goats as they migrated in search of fresh pasture. Today he is...
What Does A Kid Do For Four Days In The Desert?
Posted on March 14, 2012 | 21 CommentsWhat 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 dunes, ride stones down dunes,...
The Friday Photo: Quadbiking the Sinai Desert
Posted on March 9, 2012 | 10 CommentsAs a mode of exploring anywhere, quadbiking checks all the wrong boxes. It’s noisy, polluting, carbon-intensive, touristy and, in some places, environmentally destructive — but also a hell of a...
The Friday Photo: On the Roof in Dahab, Egypt
Posted on March 2, 2012 | 18 CommentsIt’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 clothes shops and dance bars...
The Friday Photo: Rice Terraces
Posted on February 24, 2012 | 2 CommentsThis time next week we’ll be in the Middle East, landscapes of deserts, river, rock and mountain. But rice terraces form some of the loveliest human-made landscapes on earth: this...
The Friday Photo: Tower Bridge
Posted on February 17, 2012 | 3 CommentsWe’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 spans the Thames besides the...
The Friday Photo: Ready For Some Beach
Posted on February 10, 2012 | 7 CommentsThe beaches in Kuta, Lombok, where we learned to surf, are some of the prettiest I’ve seen in Indonesia — even including the wonders of Pulau Derawan and Morotai. But...
The Friday Photo: Sofia Cathedral
Posted on February 3, 2012 | 4 CommentsSofia, 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 liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman...
A Balkan Train Ride
Posted on January 29, 2012 | 21 CommentsIs it possible to feel sorry for a train? Watching this little steam engine freezing in the snow at Bansko station, I almost did… The steam engine only runs from...
The Friday Photo: Our Own Private… Bansko
Posted on January 27, 2012 | 11 CommentsOne of the things I love about skiing is when you get the mountain to yourself. Yesterday, we worked our way through a couple of feet of fresh snow down...
A Beach. England. January. Are We Mad?
Posted on January 14, 2012 | 22 CommentsThere is something extremely English about a trip to the beach in winter. Our beaches, like our weather, our teeth and vast swathes of our national cuisine, are an international...
The Friday Photo: Yi Lady Smoking
Posted on January 13, 2012 | 4 CommentsWe met this lady from the Yi tribal minority catching the cable car up to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, outside Lijiang, China, to tend to her yaks. I don’t know...
The Friday Photo: Black Swan, Gold Carp
Posted on January 6, 2012 | 6 CommentsAt 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 water and they come...
The Friday Photo: Great Wall of China
Posted on December 30, 2011 | 3 CommentsEven after the Terracotta Warriors and Tiger Leaping Gorge, the Great Wall of China really does take your breath away. First built more than two millennia ago, it winds away...
