As much as I love the incongruities we come across on our movements around the globe, I love making connections between cultures and finding similarities in everyday encounters. It’s all about joining the dots. The Beijing Turkish kebap boys reminded me of two affable cooks we’d met two weeks earlier at Hong Kong Noodle on … Read more about Travelling: connections #1
I love to discover incongruities when I travel, as I told you. Like the coffee-seller using a shiny Italian espresso machine in Aleppo’s medieval souq, I like this image of two guys working a Turkish doner kebap stand in Beijing. It wasn’t something I expected to see in downtown Beijing. For me, it was out … Read more about Travelling: incongruities #2
One of travel’s delights for me is discovering wonderful incongruities. Like this coffee-seller in Aleppo Souq. While there’s nothing unusual about finding coffee-sellers in Syrian souqs, they’re usually armed with a traditional coffeepot or thermos, tiny ceramic or plastic cups, and a container of fresh water to wash them in. What’s so incongruous about this … Read more about Travelling: incongruities #1
There are a few reasons as to why I keep thinking about that turtle crossing the road in Syria: one, as I said, was because I’d been reading about Freya Stark’s ‘virtues of travelling’; I’ve also been thinking about the things that make travel exciting (unexpected events, the element of surprise, those serendipitous moments, incongruities); … Read more about Travelling: textures
Our ‘travellers’ virtues’ were put to the test on our recent road trip in Syria. We’d hired a driver as my partner and I were both busy researching and shooting pics and had enough to do (although my partner reluctantly ended up driving a few days anyway). We were cruising along a remote country road … Read more about Travelling: virtues put to the test, example 1