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Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
'A Blue Striped Saree'.
'A blue striped saree'. Moti Jheel Slum, Calcutta. 1948. The cotton cloth of a white, blue striped saree wafts gently in a hot, humid...
Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
Clubbing in Calcutta...
Kolkata, one night in late June. 'Huh?! I was not expecting that…' My acquaintance takes a step back, clearly a little shocked at my...
Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
Sensory Overload, Memories of Kolkata.
Sensory Overload, memories of Kolkata. Voices wail from the minarets every night at eight o'clock sharp. The Muslim call to prayer rises...
Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
Nostalgic Musings
I am currently sat in the backseat of a Fiat 500, winding down the country roads of Northern France. This feels about as far removed as...
Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
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I often get asked why I travel, or what my favourite aspect of travel is. My answer is unequivocally, 'people'. Fellow two legged...
Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
Sunrise Chasing in Nagarkot.
Chasing the rising sun at the top of the world with @leahbuffalino Dawn's first rays creep up over the snow-crested summits of the Earth,...
Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
Aboard the Mithila Express...
"Adventures do occur, but not punctually." - E.M. Forster, A Passage to India On this occasion, I must contest Forster's words. This...
Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
Mallick Ghat Flower Market. Pt. 2.
Flowers are beautiful but I think surely the stars of the show are this market's human expressions.
Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
Mallick Ghat Flower Market. Pt. 1.
Vibrant, colourful, chaotic, swarming with more humans than flowers, this is Asia's largest flower market. Mallick Ghat Market, located...
Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
'Welcome'
WELCOME...
Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
An Exhilarating Rickshaw Ride.
An exhilarating rickshaw ride. This model of transport originates from Japan, and has been getting Kolkatans around for over 130 years....
Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
Dinner Time.
Dinner Time.
Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
No Beef.
A.J.C.Bose Road, Kolkata. This chap must lead a pretty pacifist existence, he doesn't have beef with anyone...
Cerys Jones
Aug 30, 2022
The City That Never Sleeps.
Welcome to the city that never sleeps… …That never stops moving, that never stops shifting, driving, pushing and pulling. Hustling,...
Cerys Jones
Jun 4, 2022
Cheap Cigarettes and Elegant Minarets. Mostar's Old Town.
I think the expression 'East meets West' is wildly overused. I am guilty as charged, but was still stuck to find a more appropriate...
Cerys Jones
Jun 2, 2022
Looking Up. In Mostar, Bosnia.
Looking up.
Cerys Jones
Jun 2, 2022
Balkan Bullets. A Day in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Twenty-eight years ago, this city was under siege. Mostar, situated in the rugged hills of Bosnia- Herzegovina, still bears the scars of...
Cerys Jones
May 23, 2022
Split, Croatia.
I'll save you from any 'Split' related puns involving bananas or personalities, and instead leave you with these few snaps from Croatia's...
Cerys Jones
May 21, 2022
Of Wings and Waves. A Heroic Tale from Dubrovnik.
That was one soggy pigeon. I think it would have completely drowned before my family and I had noticed it was in any sort of distress. To...
Cerys Jones
May 19, 2022
The Dubrovnik's in the Detail.
Alleyways beckon, doorways into history. Medieval to modern. Blood, sweat, tears, bullets, ice cream. The 'Pearl of the Adriatic', this...
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