Tag Archives: environmental portrait Even today, scattered pockets of ethnic communities manage to live much as they have done for hundreds of years. I was on a small-group photo-tour in India’s union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. We were staying in traditional wooden houseboats – albeit with hot water, electricity, and wifi – in the middle of Dal Lake […]  Bodrum, a port town – or city, depending who you talk to – on the Aegean in the southwest of Türkiye was not on my travel radar. But, it is on other people’s! Conde Nast calls it: the most glamorous hangout in the Mediterranean. According to AI, it is often: dubbed the “St. Tropez of […]  I love pottery. Not too far from my home, there is a Moroccan restaurant and emporium where all manner of colourful earthenware is available. While I have occasionally stopped for lunch, I have managed to resist buying house numbers, fountains, kitchenwares, or floor tiles. But being in an actual traditional family-run pottery store in Fes, […]  High in the Western Ghats of South India they grow tea. The Kerala Tourism Organisation says the micro-climate at these altitudes produces a tea of exceptional quality with a distinctive flavour profile that sets it apart from other teas. I’m not a tea drinker, so I can’t comment on that – but I can attest […]  I was staying in Geneva, Switzerland, but spending the day in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (Chamonix) in France. Europe is like that! In the midst of a couple of rainy days in Geneva visiting with old friends before continuing further east, I booked myself an self-guided day trip bus trip to Chamonix. This included a ticket for the […] |
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