April 2, 2026
Tag: Asia
June 20, 2024
Sri Lanka: Kandy, the city on the hill
Kandy Lake lies just outside, wearing a soft fine mist over its silvery surface and a rippling parapet wall curving around it like a cloud. A royal bathing pavilion on the shore had been built for Kandyan queens, and has found a second life as a much more prosaic police post.
November 7, 2021
Cà phê sữa đá and vibes (part 1)
So we have come to the end of three years' worth of dispatches from Danang, and I'm still not sure how I made it. It may be due to copious amounts of coffee; likely it is the assortment of strangers who were curious, helpful, kind or all of the above. Here are a few stories.
July 5, 2019
Da Nang: Snapshots
The sunsets stay with you: deep rose and fiery gold, reflected in all their flaming radiance on waters that, in that moment, shine as still and bright as your spirit.
January 24, 2019
Mongolia 2018: Under the eternal blue sky
It wasn't a very long drive out of the city, through sternly majestic landscapes under the eye-watering, bright cornflower-blue infinite vastness of the heavens. A wild eagle would occasionally flap overhead, and you could glimpse herds of galloping horses and placidly grazing yaks.
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