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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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Gallery 30: Christmas in Manila, Philippines 2019
At the end of 2019 we had just spent two months in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in a serviced apartment to focus focus focus on launching our tea...
Aug 15, 20213 min read
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Gallery 29: Silver Coast in Lockdown, Portugal 2020
Wow. 5 months since our last post, December 31st 2020. This is the longest we've gone without posting our surely-completely-essential-to-...
May 4, 20212 min read
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Gallery 28 Animals of the Gers, France 2019
The second part of our Gers or Occitanie album from our 6 months in South West France in 2018-2019. All animals all the time!
Nov 27, 20202 min read
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Gallery 27 Occitanie, France 2019
We spent the winter and spring of 2018-19 house-sitting on a country estate in the Occitanie region of France, eating + taking these photos!
Sep 24, 20204 min read
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Gallery 26 Nong Khai, Thailand 2019
Our trip to Nong Khai last autumn was to focus on our tea shop. The locale however, made for some irresistible photography opportunities!
Jun 28, 20204 min read
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Gallery 24 Prague, Czechia 2019
We visited Czechia in May 2019 for a culture-filled week with my artist sister. This album captures that week, with plenty of art and sweets
Feb 23, 20202 min read
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Galleries 22 & 23: Penang, Malaysia 2018
In this gallery, I shift focus to the streets of Penang, from the far side of the island and its industrial regions, to its trendy centre
Dec 8, 20193 min read
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Gallery 20: London, UK 2018
"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life"
Sep 19, 20193 min read
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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...
Jul 15, 20192 min read
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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...
May 23, 20192 min read
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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...
Feb 10, 20192 min read
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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...
Dec 4, 20183 min read
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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...
Oct 5, 20182 min read
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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 27, 20182 min read
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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,...
Jun 6, 20182 min read
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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 13, 20182 min read
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Gallery 11: Hong Kong, China 2017
In 2017, we were lucky enough to visit Hong Kong on three occasions (although this gallery reflects just the first two). The first visit...
Feb 27, 20183 min read
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Gallery 10: Kochi, India 2017 (Living Kerala Series)
[Gallery 10: Photographs from our time Kochi, India 2017] Finally! A gallery of our favourite photographs of this Keralite city. Please...
Feb 15, 20181 min read
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Gallery 9: United Kingdom, 2016-2017
[Gallery 9: Photographs from our time in Scotland, Wales and England] We returned home to the UK for the winter of 2016-2017 including a...
Jan 7, 20181 min read
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Gallery 8: The Canaries, Spain 2016
Gallery 8: Photographs from our trips to Tenerife & Gran Canaria in 2016 In 2016 Elizabeth and I were living in Madrid and made use of...
Jan 1, 20184 min read
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