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Waking up to see Mount Snowdon through the window of your cabin feels pretty good for the soul. Our little wooden space near Beddgelert campsite was nestled into a hillside surrounded by trails and tracks. Its position next to a large field proved a heavenly back garden for Tal, our young labrador. The owner’s website […]
Clifton Suspension Bridge is a widely celebrated piece of architecture. Despite passing beneath it along the A4 Portway road on countless occasions, I had never been up to the Clifton Down parklands surrounding it, nor walked, cycled or driven across it. Until recently. One glorious sun-kissed Sunday in early May 2017 I photographed Bristol City’s […]
Portree is the capital and largest town of the Isle of Skye. A pretty town and obvious epicentre for tourists, it has a quaint harbour that provides several boat rides a day. I see from the Wikipedia page that “Around 939 people (37.72% of the population) can speak Scottish Gaelic” but let’s not be too […]
The Isle of Skye is an astonishingly beautiful place. After taking the swooping humped bridge connected to mainland Scotland’s northwest coast, you can be stunned in nearly every direction you turn; every long winding corner you arc around, every horizon you climb towards. When you travel around Skye, you’re presented with countless incredible vistas, many […]
Loving street photography means loving cities. All towns and cities have the capacity to fascinate. They all contain stories about how and why humans were drawn to a particular area, what industries the area was founded on, how it has grown or shrunk. Street photography feels easiest when you are fresh to a place, seeing […]
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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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Changing a Leopard’s spots
22nd September 2013
by Mark Hawkins
These travel words and pictures are about releasing a wild Leopard back into the South African bushveld, from a trip in Summer 2009.Gripping the back of the untamed Leopard’s neck with my left hand and cradling its throat with my right, I distinctly feel a low murmur from within. In this heightened sense of alert, […]
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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