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Laurence Mitchell
Writer and photographer based in Norwich, UKMarch 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 31 -
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Tag Archives: Bradt
Osh Bazaar
The first thing to know is that it isn’t in Osh. Rather, it is in the capital Bishkek. Why this bazaar shares the name of Kyrgyzstan’s second city is uncertain. Perhaps it’s because it is here that you come to … Continue reading
Mildred Holland’s Seven-year Task
Mildred Holland was an unusual and determined woman. Not content with being merely the new rector’s wife at St Mary’s, the parish church at Huntingfield in northeast Suffolk, Mildred took it on herself to singlehandedly repaint the ceiling of the church’s hammerbeam roof. … Continue reading
Posted in History, Suffolk, Travel
Tagged Bradt, hammerbeam roof, Huntingfield, medieval church, Mildred Holland, Slow Travel Suffolk
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Slow Travel Norfolk
Well, it is finally out – my new book Slow Travel Norfolk. Here is a brief extract from the book about an extraordinary rook roost that takes place at Buckenham Carrs each winter: A large wooded area just east of Buckenham … Continue reading
Posted in Norfolk, Travel, wildlife
Tagged Bradt, Buckenham Carr, rooks, Slow Norfolk, Slow travel, winter bird roosts
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Einstein on the Heath
It’s been a long time since my last post. The main reason for this is that I have been busy working on Slow Norfolk, a new guide for Bradt that is scheduled for publication early next year. Rather than a … Continue reading
Posted in History, Norfolk, Travel
Tagged Bradt, Cromer, Einstein, huts, Roughton, Slow Norfolk
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Serbia 4
The new edition of my Serbia guide is published today. It’s fully updated, of course, with revised text and lots of new listings, especially for Belgrade, a city that despite considerable setbacks seems to drive itself forever onwards and upwards. … Continue reading
Posted in Balkans, Eastern Europe, Travel
Tagged architecture, Belgrade, Bradt, Kalemegdan, Serbia, underground railways, Zaha Hadid
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Architecture without Architects
It all started more than 25 years ago when I bought a book called Architecture without Architects in a second-hand bookshop. The book, pithily subtitled A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture, and authored by Bernard Rudolfsky, came as a revelation, … Continue reading
Posted in History, Travel
Tagged architecture, Bradt, Caucasus, Georgia, Svaneti, towers, Ushguli
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