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Laurence Mitchell
Writer and photographer based in Norwich, UKApril 2021 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 -
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Category Archives: Travel
Abandoned Ferris wheel
Ferris wheel, Toktogul, Kyrgyzstan One of the enduring images from Pripyat, the main town in Ukraine’s Chernobyl disaster region, is that of an abandoned amusement park. A totem for the fall from innocence, here are rides that children once played … Continue reading
Posted in Central Asia, Cities, Travel
Tagged Bishkek, crows, Ferris wheel, Kyrgyzstan, Soviet Union, Toktogul
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The Mountains of Persia
There is a bar in Belgrade called the World Traveller’s Club. It is in the basement of an apartment block in the city centre and to gain entrance you are required to ring the door bell at street level and … Continue reading
Posted in Balkans, film, Travel
Tagged Belgrade, Coronavirus, Persia, Serbia, Slow travel, World Traveller's Club, Yugoslavia
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Winter Light
Even in winter, the northeast Norfolk coast has its attractions, especially over the Christmas and New Year period when many flock here to see the grey seals that come to the beaches of Winterton and Horsey to give birth. For … Continue reading
Over the Ofer
Ofer: Old English word for border or edge As I have mentioned here before, I have been working on a book project for some time. A book about a walk – a sort of pagan pilgrimage – made across England … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Travel, Walking
Tagged Aberystwyth, Irish Sea, Kerry Ridgeway, moorland, poetry, Powys, River Ystwyth, Wales
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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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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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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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