Gallery 30: Christmas in Manila, Philippines 2019
At the end of 2019 we had just spent two months in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in a serviced apartment to focus focus focus on launching our tea...
Currently: Renovating in Alentejo, Portugal after 4 years digital nomad-ing
The Blog
Short essays on our travels and tea,
random musings and rants
and galleries of our photography
Cameron Highlands, Malaysia
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You will find, from Elizabeth:
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An ever-growing series about the Teas of the World
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Travel essays and our musings on country and place
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Good ol' fashioned philosophical rants and random but fun pieces
And from Vientiene, galleries of his photography.
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- Nov 27, 2020
- 2 min
Gallery 28 Animals of the Gers, France 2019
The second part of our Gers or Occitanie album from our 6 months in South West France in 2018-2019. All animals all the time!
- Sep 24, 2020
- 4 min
Gallery 27 Occitanie, France 2019
We spent the winter and spring of 2018-19 house-sitting on a country estate in the Occitanie region of France, eating + taking these photos!
- Jun 28, 2020
- 4 min
Gallery 26 Nong Khai, Thailand 2019
Our trip to Nong Khai last autumn was to focus on our tea shop. The locale however, made for some irresistible photography opportunities!
- Apr 28, 2020
- 9 min
Back to Basics in Busan (& Gallery 25)
In Busan, the second city of South Korea and our home for a few weeks in July 2018, we were deluged with ‘foreign’. And it was brilliant.
- Feb 23, 2020
- 2 min
Gallery 24 Prague, Czechia 2019
We visited Czechia in May 2019 for a culture-filled week with my artist sister. This album captures that week, with plenty of art and sweets
- Dec 25, 2019
- 10 min
Three Christmas Reunions
The stories below stem from our last three Christmases: In Hereford, UK in 2016, Hong Kong in 2017, and the Gers, France in 2018. Enjoy!
- Dec 8, 2019
- 3 min
Galleries 22 & 23: Penang, Malaysia 2018
In this gallery, I shift focus to the streets of Penang, from the far side of the island and its industrial regions, to its trendy centre
- Sep 19, 2019
- 3 min
Gallery 20: London, UK 2018
"Why, Sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life"
- Jul 15, 2019
- 2 min
Gallery 19: Vienna, Austria 2018
Vienna is a jewel box. A city made of several hundred palaces (not a typo), connected via grand boulevards and narrow cobbled streets. In...
- May 23, 2019
- 2 min
Gallery 18: Busan, South Korea 2018
We spent a couple weeks in July 2018 exploring Busan, a dense coastal city full of museums, beaches and flame-grilled pork. Lots and lots...
- Feb 10, 2019
- 2 min
Gallery 17: Animals of Malaysia 2018
We spent a full two months in Penang in 2018 (Georgetown the capital to be precise), including a driving weekend to the mainland to visit...
- Dec 4, 2018
- 3 min
Gallery 16: New Orleans, USA 2014
We visited New Orleans for a family Christmas and New Year in 2014-15 and what an interesting experience it was: the culture, food and...
- Oct 5, 2018
- 2 min
Gallery 15: Madrid, Spain 2014-16
With a significant amount of time in Madrid, I was surprised to see how few photographs I took over the years! Happily though I took...
- Jul 27, 2018
- 2 min
Gallery 14: Tokyo, Japan 2017
In 2017, we spent 6 weeks in Tokyo with family. After 28 years in Japan, they were moving to Hong Kong later in the year and so we...
- Jun 6, 2018
- 2 min
Gallery 13: Singapore, 2018
In 2018, after our year in India, we desired a little break in a location where we didn't need to be so alert when walking the sidewalks,...
- Apr 13, 2018
- 2 min
Gallery 12: Vermont, USA 2017
In 2017 we spent several weeks in the US, with the galleries on Minnesota and New York having already been published. Most of our time...
- Feb 27, 2018
- 3 min
Gallery 11: Hong Kong, China 2017
In 2017, we were lucky enough to visit Hong Kong on three occasions (although this gallery reflects just the first two). The first visit...
- Feb 15, 2018
- 1 min
Gallery 10: Kochi, India 2017 (Living Kerala Series)
[Gallery 10: Photographs from our time Kochi, India 2017] Finally! A gallery of our favourite photographs of this Keralite city. Please...
- Jan 7, 2018
- 1 min
Gallery 9: United Kingdom, 2016-2017
[Gallery 9: Photographs from our time in Scotland, Wales and England] We returned home to the UK for the winter of 2016-2017 including a...