This was the most the most expensive and hard-earned lunch I’ve ever had. I didn’t pay for it, but I’m in pain and it took over 4,000 kilometres on planes, buses, taxis and on foot to get to it. And here I am in the remote mountain village of Sarybash on the far edge of […]
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It wasn’t until I realised that all of those empty bottles never held vodka that I was deep inside a complex that held hundreds of sick children many years ago. When you realise what something is something else, you see everything differently. So why the hell am I in this place: instead of this place, […]
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Yesterday was my last day in Longyearbyen. I spent it walking around the shores of Isfjorden photographing things in the dark with my Sony A7s. I haven’t had a chance to test for myself just how good it is in the dark, so I gave it a try. I applied no exposure compensation or brightening […]
Several days ago I climbed a mountain in the Arctic to explore Mine 2B, which has been abandoned since 1969. In Svalbard, it is law that anything made by humans before 1946 must be protected; nothing can be touched or removed. Combined with the cold, dry climate, this creates fantastic opportunities to catch a glimpse […]
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Previously I wrote about travelling in your own country. Friends and family visiting from far away are great opportunities to play tourist in your own land. This past weekend my father came to visit all the way from California. I enjoyed catching up with him and seeing England from a visitor’s point of view. Being […]
You can have an adventure without leaving your country. You can explore, meet interesting people, get lost and see where you live through the eyes of a tourist experiencing for the first time. The trick is to do something radically different from what you do day-to-day in your “normal life”. In July 2014 I was […]
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