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Closeup view of pistachio filled baklava behind a glass window in Gaziantep in Easter Turkey
  • gaziantep
  • turkey

food and art treasures waiting to be discovered in Gaziantep

  • June 26, 2024
view of happy street vendor selling bici bici ice dessert near riverfront in Adana in eastern turkey
  • adana
  • turkey

from the holy to the profane on the road to adana

  • June 25, 2024
inflating a hot air balloon which is lying on its side in cappadocia, turkey
  • cappadocia
  • turkey

Rediscovering your inner child in beautiful Cappadoccia

  • June 24, 2024

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  • finland
  • inari

the early bird catches the fish..

  • onshiftingsands
  • January 3, 2020
Enjoying a day of ice fishing and snowshoeing in Finnish Lapland
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  • australia
  • country victoria

lake tyrrell, ethereal and incredibly beautiful

  • onshiftingsands
  • May 15, 2021
– a vast expanse of salt, sky and stars – We had spent the morning in Echuca and were now on our way. The road from Echuca to Sea Lake traverses vast expanses of flat, yellow…
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  • italy
  • puglia

charming locorotondo

  • onshiftingsands
  • July 26, 2019
Locorotondo is a charming village, still not quite on the main tourist map but on its way there. Whitewashed houses and honey-coloured stone – a beautiful village buried in Villa d'Istria
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  • palermo
  • Sicily

palermo is both gritty & wondrous

  • onshiftingsands
  • June 29, 2022
Palermo is a frantic place, loud and dirty, friendly and gruff. It’s like a place you might find in a story from the Arabian nights.
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  • croatia
  • dubrovnik

the walled fortress town of dubrovnik

  • onshiftingsands
  • July 8, 2018
Arriving in the old city of Dubrovnik at night is magical. Ours was the last flight in and we decided to opt for the shuttle bus into the old town. We bought our tickets at a small vending…
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  • finland
  • helsinki

the unexpected delight that is Helsinki

  • onshiftingsands
  • December 31, 2019
filtered sun and meditative spaces
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  • norway
  • oslo

oslo in 6 hours….

  • onshiftingsands
  • August 20, 2018
This was Day 12 and our last day in Norway. So we had to make the best of it in terms of seeing Oslo before we had to leave for our flight at 4.30. The weather had started to clear up the…
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  • italy
  • venice

art and armaments in venice

  • onshiftingsands
  • September 8, 2019
visiting the biennale and exploring past connections
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  • finland
  • inari

lake inari

  • onshiftingsands
  • January 5, 2020
We woke to the clearest and brightest day of our stay. What a shame! We thought we would spend our last few hours on the lake. Some beautiful shots – it was a very special light we…
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  • australia
  • country victoria

exploring painted silos

  • onshiftingsands
  • May 18, 2021
– faded glory days and resilient determination – The silo art trail in north west Victoria is becoming a major tourist attraction. We’d seen a string of painted silos on our…
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  • austria
  • vienna

the treasures of empire

  • onshiftingsands
  • January 12, 2020
Sunday was a much more relaxed affair! We started the morning with breakfast at Vollpension – which is a cafe run by grandmas and grandpas. What a brilliant concept! We were welcomed by…
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  • aurland
  • norway

a drive north east of bergen

  • onshiftingsands
  • August 14, 2018
Day 7 of our trip to Norway. The day began uneventfully as we drove to our next location. This being Norway there were, of course, some spectacular views that punctuated our drive along the…
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  • norway
  • totak lake

rain and more rain…

  • onshiftingsands
  • August 10, 2018
Day 3 of our visit to Norway. Well we thought we had seen the worse of the rain on our first day, but today it just came bucketing down and put paid to all our plans. It was a day spent almost…
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  • dublin
  • ireland

a long weekend in dublin

  • onshiftingsands
  • September 2, 2018
This was our second visit to Dublin. A town with two faces – party central whilst solemn and dour. And home to some of my favourite works of art..
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  • greece
  • milos island

the churches of milos island

  • onshiftingsands
  • August 5, 2019
he simple, monotonous ringing of the bell at the church above our home seemed to punctuate our daily routine and no matter where we found ourselves on the island the regular peal would force…
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