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Laurence Mitchell
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Author Archives: East of Elveden
Riasg Buidhe – an abandoned village on the Isle of Colonsay
It is not that easy to find but if you go to the recycling depot at the highest point on the road between Scalasaig and Kiloran on the Isle of Colonsay, then follow the rough track that leads towards the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Islands, Scotland
Tagged abandoned villages, Colonsay, Gaelic, Hebrides, Riasg Buidhe, ruins, St Kilda
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Black Sea, Blue Sky – Balkan Rain
This rain that has been falling almost incessantly here for the past 48 72 hours seems to have followed me back home from the Balkans. Travelling coast to coast, from Adriatic to Black Sea, over a three week period I … Continue reading
Ghosts of Mattancherry
The best of India is often seen in the slow hours before breakfast, the time of day when the subcontinent’s multitude of people and gods stir themselves in the cool mercury light that follows dawn. On my last day in … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Travel
Tagged cyclists, India, Jew Town, Kerala, Kochi, Mattancherry, synagogue
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Palani – a temple town
Palani, a temple town in western Tamil Nadu, barely gets a mention in the guidebooks. Too close to the hill resort of Kodaikanal to be of much interest other than as a transport hub, the town was a necessary … Continue reading
A Berlin Interlude
What do you do on a drizzly grey day in Berlin? A midwinter day when the sun is enfeebled and hidden, cowering somewhere beneath a thick duvet of cloud. What do you do in a city that you do not … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, History, Travel
Tagged Berlin, Germany, Karl Liebknecht, light, Rosa Luxemburg, Spartacists, winter
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(Thirty-)Six Views of Bass Rock
‘It is just the one crag of rock, as everybody knows, but great enough to carve a city from.’ Robert Louis Stevenson Catriona Japan’s Mount Fuji is a dormant volcano that looks just like a volcano should. An almost perfectly … Continue reading
Posted in Islands, Scotland, wildlife
Tagged Bass Rock, Edinburgh, Firth of Forth, gannets, Hokusai, Japan, Mount Fuji, seabirds, volcanoes
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The Rule of Home
As a few of you may know, I have been working on a much longer project, a book in fact, for quite some time. This work is centred on a walk made coast to coast across England and Wales, from … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Travel, Walking
Tagged Ceredigion, desire paths, hiraeth, home, roots, Wales
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On Stiffkey marshes
On August Bank Holiday Sunday we drove east along the coast road from Cley-next-the-Sea. The coastline was bathed in hazy sunshine; the sky, milky white and unthreatening. Rain and wind had been forecast for later – typical bank holiday weather … Continue reading
Posted in Norfolk, Walking, wildlife
Tagged birds, marshes, North Norfolk, North Norfolk Coast, North Sea, samphire, Stiffkey
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Beside Song-Köl Lake
There are places that stay in the mind long after visiting. Places that haunt the mind’s memory cache to prevail even years after having set foot there. Such places might be mountains, or rivers, or stretches of coastline; or even … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, Travel, wildlife
Tagged horses, Kyrgyzstan, lakes, landscape, Song-Köl, yurts
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Beneath a Concrete Sky – to Gravelly Hill Interchange by canal
Where’s Birmingham river? Sunk. Which river was it? Two. More or Less. Birmingham River Roy Fisher The idea was to follow the Birmingham canal system north to Spaghetti Junction. I had already traversed the city by means of the Grand … Continue reading
Posted in Cities, Human Geography, Midlands, Walking, wildlife
Tagged art, Birmingham, canals, Digbeth, graffiti, Gravelly Hill Interchange, psychogeography, Roy Fisher, Spaghetti Junction, transport, West Midlands
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