Fifteen Countries, Fifteen Smiles for World Smile Day
This post celebrates World Smile Day which takes place on the first Friday of October in honour of Harvey Ball who created the Smiley Face back in 1963. Smiley has come a long way in fifty-two years!...
View ArticleExtreme body piercing at the Phuket Vegetarian Festival in Thailand
If you’re heading to the Phuket Vegetarian Festival with the idea of spending a mellow few days feasting on tofu burgers and soya milk lattes, I urge you to read the small print. Ever since I first...
View ArticleDiscovering Lychakivske Cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine
Graveyards aren’t normally top of our ‘to do’ list when discovering a new city, but the Lychakivske Cemetery in the Ukrainian city of Lviv is right up there with Highgate Cemetery in North London, La...
View Article2015: A Review of our Travelling Year in Photographs
A Review of 2015: Our Year of Travel in Photographs When it comes to travel, 2015 was another fantastic year for us, once more packed full of superlatives. In November we celebrated a milestone: our...
View ArticleThe Lada – Cleansing my demons in the Caucasus
A light-hearted look at Ladas in the Caucasus, their history and how they played a part in my teenage years I don’t really have an obsession with cars. Alloy wheels, chrome by the tonnage and supercars...
View ArticleIn pictures: Twelve places you should visit in Eastern Turkey
Photographs that will make you want to visit Eastern Turkey Eastern Turkey is an underrated destination that never seems to have any luck when it comes to increasing the number of overseas tourists....
View ArticleAre the People of Bangladesh the Friendliest in the World?
What is Bangladesh’s biggest attraction? It’s the people! Let’s face it, not many tourists visit Bangladesh and having spent three weeks there, I can sort-of understand why. Bangladesh hasn’t got...
View ArticleTwelve Forts and Castles from Around the World
A photo essay featuring twelve forts, castles and palaces that we have explored on our travels There are forts and castles of some description in many countries the world over. We are never going to...
View ArticlePhnom Penh’s Distinctive Architecture
Discovering Phnom Penh’s Architectural Heritage from Colonial Buildings to New Khmer Architecture I’m going to begin by saying that we cannot take any credit for the contents of the walking tour of...
View ArticlePripyat: Photos from Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Haunting photographs from our visit to the abandoned town of Pripyat in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone …. Thirty years on Most people of a certain age have heard of the Chernobyl Disaster, often referred...
View ArticleTwelve more Forts and Castles from Around the World
A photo essay featuring twelve more forts, castles and palaces that we have explored on our travels As a continuation of our first Forts and Castles article, here are some more fortresses that we have...
View ArticleTravelling the Pamir Highway and Wakhan Valley: A Photo Essay
A photographic journal of our journey from Osh in Kyrgyzstan to Murgab in Tajikistan This summer we took a road trip that will go down as one of the most visually enthralling adventures we have...
View ArticleFaces of India – Allahabad
Portraits from our travels around India – Part I: Allahabad We’ve never been that great at taking portrait photos of people. I’m not talking about the technical skill of actually taking the photo, more...
View ArticleVisiting Bangkok’s Airplane Graveyard
Urban Exploration and Abandoned Aircraft at Bangkok’s airplane graveyard: one of the Big Mango’s most unique attractions What is the Airplane Graveyard? Named after King Ram Khamhaeng, the 13th-century...
View Article2016 Travel Review in Photographs
Here we go again with a roundup of where our 2016 travels took us, featuring a lot of wanderlusty photographs. Is it really a year since our last annual travel review?! At the start of every year we...
View ArticleKep’s Abandoned Colonial and Modernist Villas
Neglected and atmospheric architecture on Cambodia’s southern coast Kep Sur Mer (Kep-on-Sea), to give Kep its correct title, is a rather quiet coastal town in southern Cambodia. These days, it is known...
View ArticleLondon: Old Favourites and New Discoveries – A Photo Essay
Eight years of travelling and finally we’ve got round to exploring a bit of London Kirsty was born and raised in North London and I moved to the capital in my early twenties and lived and worked there...
View ArticleKamyanets-Podilsky – Ukraine’s Hidden Gem
The medieval town in Central Ukraine that’s missing only one thing – tourists… I don’t believe in sticking up a load of photos, accompanied by the minimum of text and telling the reader that they must...
View ArticleUkrainian Bangers and Beauties
And why we are thinking about buying a Lada… Hello, I’m Mark and I’m an Ladaholic. I’ve decided I am officially obsessed with photographing Ladas and other retro-style cars that date back to the...
View ArticleThe Leather Tanneries of Fez in Morocco
Visiting the leather tanneries was one of my main reasons for wanting to go to Fez in Morocco. But, I’d gone right off the idea by the time I’d read other travellers’ experiences on websites such as...
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