

no really, bugger sharpness !
like that quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson, and also rather agree with it - or at any rate find that I enjoy blurry images more and more !...


Azenhas do Mar & misc.
Above pic was taken in Azenhas do Mar, 20 klicks or so west of Lisbon, at a most delightful and scrumptious seafood restaurant called...


greetings from Lisbon (not underwater or anything fishy)
from the bloody amazing Lisbon aquarium. following which, in need of a hearty meal, I eventually decided on a hunk of fish, though the...


rewind
Would you like some protein with that ? question genuinely put to me by a waiter in a restaurant (Bare Burger, in Brooklyn) after I'd...


Egypt - over and out, for now
Waiting for my flight in a strange, strange lounge, a picture of a certain side of Egypt. Everything quite tatty and dog-eared, the air a...


Wish I were in Fishawy
not so far off as it happens as I'm writing this from a plush hotel in Heliopolis, Cairo - but it seems a world away from the streets of...


random encounters
One of the myriad things I love about independant travel and road trips is the people you meet along the way. In Ifni (my third time...


and thence to Taroudant
Here it finally is, Dad, after my little Arabic interlude (that incidentally saw a nice spike in hits on my site, so I shall resume in a...


Tafraoute - Berber country
Follow-up from my penultimate post. Tafraoute was a wonderful place - for its unique scenery at the heart of the Anti-Atlas,...


Tiout
Tiout is this delightful oasis not half an hour out of Taroudant. The notion of an oasis in this same plain between the Anti-Atlas to the...