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Barcelona – oversaturation in August
14th September 2014
by Mark Hawkins
Impossible to walk past this. Before heading out for a few days of tourism in Barcelona recently, I pondered: should I take a camera? Perhaps I should just try to relax without one, avoid seeing things through a viewfinder for a while, “recharge the batteries”? Surely though, being somewhere different (although I had been once […]
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Highland flung
15th December 2013
by Mark Hawkins
Another from the travel vaults, this tells of a day during a 2008 road-trip around the mesmerising Western Highlands of Scotland. The well-travelled writer, broadcaster and Monty Python member Michael Palin ranks this as his favourite area of the UK and it’s easy to see why. I badly want to go back. I wind myself […]
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View to a kill
20th October 2013
by Mark Hawkins
Another travel post from a 2009 trip to South Africa. This one from the safari section. Sabie Sands is a private conservancy with no physical borders to its sanitised and vast neighbour, Kruger Park. It has the bonus of being out of the obvious tourist rat-run, or so we’re told, and walking amongst wild […]
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Bristol fashion
30th August 2013
by Mark Hawkins
“Ship shape and Bristol fashion..” Adj. (chiefly nautical) Tidily tied down and secure. – Wikipedia http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shipshape_and_Bristol_fashion Not much distance separates the UK cities of Cardiff and Bristol. Just under 45 miles of road, if Google is to be believed, as well as the River Severn estuary and a fairly important border that divides Wales and England. In terms of population, […]
Exploring Eire
25th August 2013
by Mark Hawkins
Another from the travel vaults. Although now a Cardiff photographer, this is from a 2007 road trip from Cheltenham to South-West Ireland. A handsome looking dog sits on the passenger seat of the car next to me, seeming quite human in its polkerdot neckerchief. Its owner smokes idly, tatooed, pierced, bottle blonde and bored in […]
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Sunshine & Showers 5.
21st April 2013
by Mark Hawkins
2005 South-East Asia revisited This is an abridged travel blog of a trip taken in 2005 published over several weekly posts, covering Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. Click to enlarge any images. Further explanation in a previous post. Any likes and shares much appreciated. 5. Cambodian complexion – seeing Siem Reap Lying on a small stone section of […]
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Sunshine & Showers 4.
14th April 2013
by Mark Hawkins
2005 South-East Asia revisited. This is an abridged travel blog of a trip taken in 2005 published over several weekly posts, covering Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. Click to enlarge any images. Further explanation in a previous post.Any likes and shares much appreciated. 4. Exploring Cambodia – Phnom Penh / Siem Reap At the end of a delicious […]