Exploring Baku
It’s Friday, and time for a flashback to an old Travel with Intent post. Burrowing into Baku Originally posted March 18, 2019, all images Baku, March 2017 Come burrow with […]
Wind
Bronze sculpture of the Wind inside the Heydar Aliyev Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan, March 2017 – Welcome to One Word Sunday, and over to all of you to join the challenge […]
Happy Nowruz!
It’s the start of Spring in the northern hemisphere, and it marks the Persian New Year, known as Nowruz. The Iranian calendar is a solar calendar, so Nowruz always coincides […]
A yellow go-slow
Outside the Heydar Aliyev Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan, March 2017 Copyright Debbie Smyth, 4 March 2021 Posted as part of Jude’s Life in Colour …
Up on the roof
Diri Baba Mausoleum, Azerbaijan, April 2017 I said I might be back with more rooftop activityAnd here is a more recent version of Up on the roof, featuring its composer, […]
Rolled up by design
Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum, Baku, March 2017 Carpet weaving is an important part of Azerbaijan’s heritage and this was recognised by UNESCO in 2010. A tour of the museum reveals […]
Labour of love
Coppersmith at work in Lahic, Azerbaijan, March 2017 Perched in the southern foothills of the Great Caucasus, sits the ancient settlement of Lahic. As long as you visit slightly out […]
Old Baku on the screen
Icherishekher na kinolyentakh (Baku Old City in Film), published 2017 I found this great book in a friendly and well-stocked bookshop in Baku. I had been attracted to the shop […]
Mud-luscious
“The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful” – E. E. Cummings Mud volcano, Azerbaijan, March 2017 It’s time for a weekly quotation-inspired image. If the quote inspires a pictorial or wordy […]
Eternal firelight
The Eternal Flame Monument, Baku, Azerbaijan, March 2017 Flame Towers, Baku, Azerbaijan, March 2017 – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 29 January 2020 Posted as part of January Squares
Working by firelight
Copper workshop in Lahic, Azerbaijan, March 2017 – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 18 January 2020 Posted as part of January Squares
Travel with Intent 