Tag Archives: Photo Blog Peace. Is there such a thing? At the moment – at least in my corner of the world – there is an absence of war. Given the current political climates internationally, this absence of war does not feel like “peace”. It feels like a precarious balance of competing tensions: a temporary truce, while one holds […]  If you are like me – or, indeed, like the majority of people in the modern world – you spent most of your childhood in a standardised classroom. Schools are so “alike” all around the world that it is hard to remember that it wasn’t always this way: for hundreds of thousands of years, children […]  If I had to choose one word to describe the Mursi people of Ethiopia’s Omo Valley, I’d have to say “proud”. There are roughly 7,500 pastoralist Nilo-Saharan Mursi living across approximately 1900 square kilometres of semi-arid land in an isolated corner of southwestern Ethiopia, close to the border with South Sudan. A tall, good-looking people, […]  Today is Holi: the much-loved Hindu ‘festival of colours’. In India and Nepal, Holi is celebrated for a night and a day: starting on the full-moon evening of the month of Phalguna or Phalgun on the Hindu calendar. This usually falls somewhere between the end of February and the middle of March, according to the […]  I love Europe! I love the history in the stones and buildings. I love the food and wine. I love how every place is so different from its neighbour. I love how accessible those places (generally) are by rail, and how train journeys are (usually) clean, safe and efficient. Of course, we were travelling the […] |
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