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Cerys Jones
Aug 15, 2023
Hawa Mahal
The Hawa Mahal, Jaipur’s wondrous palatial honeycomb structure of pink lattice and hypnotising Jharokhas. To be enjoyed at dawn, noon,...
Cerys Jones
Aug 11, 2023
जयपुर
Rajput reminiscences, arches and domes, glory, battle and spirit, tales of passion mingle with insatiable pride of man. Maharaja. A...
Cerys Jones
Aug 6, 2023
Shades of Royalty at Nahargarh
Nahargarh fort is perched atop the verdant Aravalli hills surrounding Jaipur. The name Nahargarh means ‘abode of the tigers’. There’s no...
Cerys Jones
Aug 3, 2023
The Pink City
It was perhaps fate that I visited Jaipur, the famed pink city, at the advent of the Barbie movie’s global conquest. You may be surprised...
Cerys Jones
Jul 31, 2023
Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, New Delhi
I only spent about an hour in the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib, Delhi’s majestic Sikh temple, but by the time I stepped out, my borrowed...
Cerys Jones
Jul 30, 2023
Catch a Spicy Cough at Gadodia Market
The first thing one notices, stepping into Delhi’s Gadodia spice market is not the heaps of ground turmeric, or the bagfuls of jeera, or...
Cerys Jones
Jul 26, 2023
Chandni Chowk
My friend assured me this is the oldest and indisputable maharaja of the Jalebi, Delhi’s OG Jalebi wala if you will. Upon some research,...
Cerys Jones
Jul 25, 2023
Bulgarian Wisdom
Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria, a majestic city soaked over centuries by the tides of Eastern European history. The name Sofia means...
Cerys Jones
Jul 22, 2023
Bayrampasa, Istanbul.
An unexpected detour of fate (or rather, a delayed Ryanair flight, depending on how romantic you’re feeling) and I recently ended up with...
Cerys Jones
Jul 11, 2023
University Illustration Final Project
I’d like to share পরিবেশ, my end of year illustration project, inspired by Kolkata’s Mallick Ghat flower market. My uni tutor in London...
Cerys Jones
Jul 10, 2023
Tale of Tenerife.
Beyond resorts rife filled with ‘Brits behaving badly’, as my guide book affectionately puts it, the Atlantic island of Tenerife hides a...
Cerys Jones
Jun 29, 2023
Brits in Tenerife...
“…but, i’faith you have drunk too much canaries, and that’s a marvelous searching wine, and it perfumes the blood ere one can say: what’s...
Cerys Jones
Jun 9, 2023
London Thumakda
I asked this smiling auntie with sparkling eyes if I could photograph her making fresh jalebis. She nodded and gifted me with a free,...
Cerys Jones
Jun 7, 2023
Travel Tuesdays.
Every Tuesday evening, a group of us from my university attend a life drawing session. Two hours of sketching naked bodies and we...
Cerys Jones
May 24, 2023
Le mur des je t’aime, Paris.
How do you say ‘I love you’ in your language? If ever in doubt, take a stroll to this marvellous vertical blue slab in Paris, nestled in...
Cerys Jones
May 22, 2023
Extract from an April Parisian picnic…
The sunshine is a little shy today, it keeps on tentatively peeking through grey clouds, only to retreat, perhaps perturbed by the spring...
Cerys Jones
May 21, 2023
Montmartre, Paris, sometime in early April.
“Hmm, English this family, I can tell from the shoes”. “Yeah really?” “Definitely, and these too. Oh no, actually, more Balkan, or...
Cerys Jones
May 18, 2023
Vatican City. Late February.
The fridge magnets with colourful pantaloons pictured above are Vatican Swiss Guards. They may not look it owing to their attire, but...
Cerys Jones
May 17, 2023
Romes & Naples, late February ‘23.
Below are just a few charming old souls I fell in love with while travelling through Italy earlier this year. Rome may not officially...
Cerys Jones
May 10, 2023
Spiderman meets Luigi
On your wanderings through the dredges of the World Wide Web, you may have encountered the infamous ‘Spider Man pointing’ meme, a comic...
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