The Delight of Borough Market
Ever since Jamie Oliver, or some TV chef, announced that they got their produce from Borough Market, it has become ‘trendy’ – compelete with flocks of tourists and a few pristine-looking stalls with the haughty signs: ‘only customers allowed to take photos’.
Read MorePhoto Essay: A Walk in Wiltshire
You know the area where you live like the back of your hand. After all, you see it everyday as you head to work or nip to the shops. But do you? Do you really see it?
Read MoreExtreme Beauty: Lake Titicaca
The world’s highest navigable lake, the lake with the most childishly humorous name, the most extremely beautiful landscape – Lake Titicaca is superlative in every sense.
Read MoreMountains: A Photo Essay
Mountains have the power to awe and inspire like no other landscape on earth. They remind us of our own insignificance in the world, they are a challenge to take on and they have an aesthetic, timeless pefection which leaves us weak at the knees. I spent much of last year living at high-altitude, waking up to views of the mountains, climbing them and even skiing down them. Now, living in a part of England which is as flat as a pancake, I miss the challenge and the beauty of mountains; I miss the way they make my soul sing.
Read MoreHearts, Handbags and Works of Art
Until I started thinking about how to answer this months’ Across the Cafe Table question posed by the Travel Belles: ‘What’s Your Favourite Travel Shopping Find?’ I had never considered myself a particularly materialistic traveller. Then I looked around my new bedroom in the house I’ve just moved into and realised that a lot of the things making it feel homely and ‘mine’ were related to my travels. I wondered how I would ever pick a favourite.
Read MoreImpermanence: The Eternal State of the Traveller
I’m so excited to welcome a new guest writer! For the moment, I’m not going to reveal this writer’s identity so that you can read the words without any preconceptions. Having just arrived home after almost half a year of perpetual motion, I received a piece entitled ‘Impermanence’ and I knew I just had to publish it. After all, every traveller must learn to come to terms with impermanence; the constant flux of journeying from place to place, the fact that things are changing back home without them, the very movement of the Earth even as they stand still for a moment. So, teamed with a series of images from my own journey, here is a philosophy not just on travel but on life.
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