Tag Archives: fishing port

Lofoten – from Å to Bø

Posted on September 17, 2012 by

North Norway’s Lofoten Islands are famous for their beauty. Not for nothing have these islands been sometimes described as the most beautiful in the world. Even on the dullest of days, the landscape here is breathtaking. Vertiginous ridges of ancient granite and gneiss … Continue reading →

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Ghosts of the Aral Sea

Posted on May 20, 2012 by

To continue from the earlier post about a hotel that thought itself a ship, here are some more landlocked boats. These, though, are real ones – the rusting remains of what was once a large fishing fleet on the Aral Sea … Continue reading →

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