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What evidence of 45 years of Soviet socialism could we see? What was Bulgaria like under the Communist Party? And the economics?
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The Blog
Short essays on Portugal, our travels & tea,
random musings and writings
and galleries of our photography
Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
Welcome!
You will find, from Elizabeth:
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An ever-growing series about the Teas of the World
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Travel essays and our musings on country and place
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Our experiences and adventures as we make our new home in Portugal
And from Vientiene, galleries of his photography.
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Jul 15, 20192 min read
Gallery 19: Vienna, Austria 2018
Vienna is a jewel box. A city made of several hundred palaces (not a typo), connected via grand boulevards and narrow cobbled streets. In...
Jun 26, 20193 min read
The Sad Woman in St Pancras
1-2 minute read. Note: We are currently on a whirlwind visit to the UK, next stop Bulgaria. The below piece is a new style I'm...
Jun 1, 20195 min read
A Beautiful Morning on the Bayou
2-3 minute read. Note: We are currently in Mississippi, USA. // One baby alligator came to the boat launch to see us off. Its little...
May 23, 20192 min read
Gallery 18: Busan, South Korea 2018
We spent a couple weeks in July 2018 exploring Busan, a dense coastal city full of museums, beaches and flame-grilled pork. Lots and lots...
Feb 10, 20192 min read
Gallery 17: Animals of Malaysia 2018
We spent a full two months in Penang in 2018 (Georgetown the capital to be precise), including a driving weekend to the mainland to visit...
Jan 14, 201912 min read
2018 Year in Review
12-15 minute read. Note: We are currently in southern France, house-sitting through April this year. // Welcome to 2019! The start of a...
Dec 4, 20183 min read
Gallery 16: New Orleans, USA 2014
We visited New Orleans for a family Christmas and New Year in 2014-15 and what an interesting experience it was: the culture, food and...
Oct 21, 20187 min read
Walking Lucy in Ha Tinh, Vietnam
5 minute read. Note: We are currently in Spain, although this post is about Vietnam. // Heat is the defining feature of Vietnam in June....
Oct 5, 20182 min read
Gallery 15: Madrid, Spain 2014-16
With a significant amount of time in Madrid, I was surprised to see how few photographs I took over the years! Happily though I took...
Sep 13, 201816 min read
Surviving the Lombok Earthquake
10 minute read. Note: We are currently safe in the UK. This post is about the Lombok earthquake on 5th August 2018. // I cannot forget...
Jul 27, 20182 min read
Gallery 14: Tokyo, Japan 2017
In 2017, we spent 6 weeks in Tokyo with family. After 28 years in Japan, they were moving to Hong Kong later in the year and so we...
Jul 21, 20186 min read
Entering the Pool in Penang
4 minute read. Note: We are currently in Indonesia, even though this post is about the pool in Penang. // One. The white-blue sky...
Jul 13, 20185 min read
On the Border of China
4 minute read. Note: We are currently in Busan, Korea. This post is about our visits to Hong Kong last year. // The full Tang Clan...
Jun 10, 20187 min read
Vestiges of Britain in Penang
6 minute read. Note: We are currently in Vietnam, even though this post is about the end of Penang. // I am here on the balcony at the...
Jun 6, 20182 min read
Gallery 13: Singapore, 2018
In 2018, after our year in India, we desired a little break in a location where we didn't need to be so alert when walking the sidewalks,...
May 24, 201810 min read
Teas of the World: Pt 6 India (Living Kerala Series)
7 minute read. // India is one of the great tea producing nations in the world, and we were lucky enough to spend almost a year there...
Apr 13, 20182 min read
Gallery 12: Vermont, USA 2017
In 2017 we spent several weeks in the US, with the galleries on Minnesota and New York having already been published. Most of our time...
Apr 2, 20184 min read
Living Kerala Series: Summer Sunsets in Kochi, India
Sunset, in the hot summer months of February, March and April, signals the end of that day’s ordeal. From 1pm onwards the empty sky turns...
Mar 12, 20186 min read
The Things We Packed
We are at the t-minus nine days point now and it is time to concentrate on packing. Considering we’re wandering digital nomads we have...
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