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Laurence Mitchell
Writer and photographer based in Norwich, UK-
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Tag Archives: Uzbekistan
Ghosts of the Aral Sea
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
Posted in Asia, Central Asia, Travel
Tagged Aral Sea, art, boats, fishing port, Karakalpakstan, Moynaq, Nukus, Soviet Union, Uzbekistan
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Metal Box
There are strange low hills in the vicinity of The Port of Felixtowe in Suffolk. Not the product of tectonic upheaval or Ice-Age earth shifting but man-made plateaus of painted steel. Around what is the largest container port in Britain vast acres of stacked shipping … Continue reading
Posted in Suffolk, Travel
Tagged Bishkek, central asia, Felixstowe, Kara-Suu, Kyrgyzstan, port, shipping container, Suffolk, Uzbekistan
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