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Mining the Diaries 37: Cuba 1998

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Brian

Las Cuatros Palmas, Varadero, 10th May 1998 Awake early, I look out from my balcony across the palms and thatched roofs to the silent sea and a sharply defined horizon under plumbago sky.  Scores of dark amber dragonflies describe circles, … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 36: France

Posted on June 4, 2023 by Brian

Le Pre Fleuri, Corlu, 5th April 1998 A solitary swallow skimmed over the farm as we set out on a circular tour – Delville Wood, Pozieres, Contalmaison and Mametz Wood.  Near Combles a line of beaters tramped across the fields … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 35: Spain

Posted on June 2, 2023 by Brian

Hogar San Francisco, Santiago Compostella, 22nd August 1997 The town is thronged with 20th century pilgrims – tourists – and the crowds gather around the cathedral with the waking day.  They drop coins to be photographed with a dog dressed … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 34: Turkey

Posted on May 30, 2023 by Brian

Lord Kinross Room, Pera Palace, Istanbul, 26th April 1997 Early breakfast and a taxi to the Grand Bazaar.  It should have been a short ride across the Karakoy (Galata) Bridge and then a few streets through the centre, but the … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 33: New Zealand

Posted on May 15, 2023 by Brian

Lake Paringa Heritage Lodge, 23rd November 1996 Picked up a car, a Mitsubishi Lancer (RU 2318) at Queenstown and headed out north east through Arrowtown (looking like a gold rush theme park with incongruous red double decker buses).  At Arrow … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 32: Spain

Posted on May 11, 2023 by Brian

Hotel Regina Cristina, Grenada, 18th September 1996 The figures framed by the restaurant windows at breakfast carried umbrellas against a fine drizzle.  It wasn’t cold and, undeterred, we set out to walk up hill to the Albaicin on the north … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 31: France

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Brian

Ferme Bellengez, Grandcourt, 1st April 1996 A day touring British and Commonwealth World War 1 cemeteries: Serre Road Nos 1 and 2 (9,553 burials); Ovillers-la-Boiselle (3,440); Gordon Dump (1,680, including a lone Sikh from Hodgson’s Horse); Redan Ridge Nos1, 2 … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 30: Ireland

Posted on April 30, 2023 by Brian

Talbot Guest House, Dublin, 14th March 1996 Eight–thirty breakfast – black and white pudding – before last morning exploring. Across the Liffey by the Ha’penny Bridge and into Temple Bar, where a huge effort is going into a new arts … Continue reading →

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Analog Disincentives

Posted on April 27, 2023 by Brian

I want an extra role of film to take on holiday (Trieste and Venice in May) and in the spirit of buying local went to Campkins, Cambridge’s independent photo shop.  They wanted £12 for a 36 exposure cassette of FP4, … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 29: Turkey

Posted on April 26, 2023 by Brian

Hotel Dorici, Kusadasi, 26th October 1995 Caged chickens, protesting sheep, dripping fish, drifts of sunflower seeds and rice, great slabs of white cheese, and bulging sacks of tobacco were sold by people with weathered mahogany faces in the cacophony of … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 28 – Belgium

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Brian

De Lork, Kemmel, 22nd February 1995 A day on the move and of moving impressions To Ypres in bright sun. Museum in the rebuilt Cloth Hall; old fashioned and uncritical. The Menin gate.  A veil of 54,000 names of those … Continue reading →

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Ely Light

Posted on April 13, 2023 by Brian

Yesterday I had a long overdue clear out of work prints made for the Traces of Erewhon project.  Making the pictures was a very hit and miss process and there were many more misses than hits, so the waste paper … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries 27: Italy

Posted on April 12, 2023 by Brian

Casa Elisabetta, Castra, 23rd September 1994 San Gimignano the town of towers.  It seems to be full of noisy Germans, Americans and jackdaws.  Coaches drop off visitors, who stream in waves up the Via San Matteo. In the cloister of … Continue reading →

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Seeing Difference

Posted on April 11, 2023 by Brian

In writing about Larnaca yesterday I mentioned ‘noisy metal workshops under ancient arches’.   It may seem strange to highlight this when I said nothing about more important sights, like Finikoudes Beach, the Catacomb of Phaneromeni Church and Hala Sultan Tekke (Mosque … Continue reading →

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Mining the Diaries: 26 Cyprus

Posted on April 10, 2023 by Brian

Poseidonia Hotel, Limassol, 4th February 1994 Out on the fast road to Larnaca in the white Suzuki Samurai at 8 o’clock, the sunny landscape of south east Cyprus zipping by: lemon groves and ancient olives; dry valleys and ravines; Stavrovouni … Continue reading →

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