Abandoned building
Village pond
Warning sign
Throughout history people have had to leave home, uproot the...
Chelsea Physic Garden main house, café and shop
Statue of physician and naturalist Sir Hans Sloane
Are there really 613 seeds in a pomegranate? Or is it just a...
Berry Pinshow
sitting next to
a giant, old
Welwitschia
mirabilis plant
in the Messum
Crater, Namibia
On an August evening back in 1994, I was drinking beer at a ...
This is a story about how a trip to Australia, cancelled due...
Character and attitude on three wheels
Motoring history in a can
In the late 1950's when I was a child in Caerphilly, South W...
Tunnel boring machine
used in the Elizabeth line. Photo: Wolfgang Meinhart, Wikimedia Commons
A blaze of light . . .
a night shot
of London’s
Canary Wharf. Photo: Diliff, Wikimedia Commons
Having lived in London for more than 30 years I am reasonabl...
Shlomo feeds a wallaby in Brisbane
Graffiti on a water cistern at Tauranga, New Zealand
Monkey Forest near Ubud in Bali
Gorge-ous ...
Taroko Gorge
near Hualien,
Taiwan
Samurai fight at the Samurai Museum, Tokyo, Japan
I always dreamt of repeating the feat of Phileas Fogg in Jul...
Leaya today, driving a tractor on a farm in the Jordan Valley as part of her National Service. She is still in the wilds, like where she was born.
Kangaroo Luka and her son pop out of the rain
forest and hop onto the veranda for food
In the last few years our three children have turned us into...
A cruise ship docked in Puerto Vallarta
Most memorable dish dining
out ... tuna on hot rock
A sculpture on the Malecon, the
boardwalk in Puerto Vallarta
Story and photos by Eli Libenson Puerto Vallarta is a r...
In Togo woman were seen carrying more than 40 kilos on their heads
In the Fetish Market was a large display of dried animal heads – dogs, cats, monkeys, cobras, rats, ox horns and snakes. Many see it as a hospital or pharmacy
My journey deep within mysterious West Africa While searchin...
Medallion man ... Herb Hahn is the proud owner of an Endymion necklace
Mardi Gras is a festival and celebration amongst Catholics, ...
Water buffalo intended to be sacrificed
Traditional Torajan baby graves a in tree
The Tau Tau carver at work
Indonesia is one of the most fascinating countries I have vi...
All smiles from a waitress at a hotel in Zanzibar
Claire’s husband, Yossi, and one of
the local beauties
A full moon at low tide
On the way to Zanzibar, I used the five-hour flight to read ...
Kit Harington who plays Jon Snow in Game of Thrones Photo: Flickr
Boats moored in the
medieval town of Budva
Central Split along
the Riva promenade
Sandwiched between a visit to Venice and Florence, my friend...
The canyon approach to Petra (Photos: Mike Altman,
Baruch and Mimi Tanaman)
The Treasury, Petra’s most famous facade
Ancient mosaic
church-floor map detailing
the columns along
Jerusalem's Cardo
An oasis of
souvenirs
in the
Wadi Rum
desert
Sights of Petra, from simple homes to palatial tombs, all carved into the mountainsides
Echoes of
ancient desert
caravans
The whole happy ESRA group in Jordan's Wadi Rum desert
There are some countries that as soon as you enter, you feel...
The Museum wing named after Sammy Ofer (Photo: Lydia Aisenberg )
The bust of Israeli shipping magnate Sammy Ofer in the National Maritime Museum, London (Photo: Flickr)
During a recent sojourn to London, I included a visit to Gre...
Negotiating one of the many locks
Henry Gild (left) and family enjoying a meal on board narrow boat Martha
Story and photos by Henry Gild My wife Chippy and myse...
