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 […]
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 …
Slow blues
– Copyright Debbie Smyth, 28 July 2019 Posted as part of July Squares
Burrowing into Baku
Come burrow with me! I’m back to the topic of BBC’s Race Across the World: the second checkpoint in the show was Baku, so I thought I’d show you around […]
Slithering and sliding homewards
These snails were crawling exceedingly slowly around the grounds of the Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku. Snails can actually crawl around 25 metres in 24 hours, but these giant creatures just […]
Vast reservoir of nature
“The sea is the vast reservoir of Nature. The globe began with sea, so to speak; and who knows if it will not end with it?” – Jules Verne […]
Asymmetrical arches
More glimpses of my, so far, favourite Zaha Hadid building. I’ve got many more still to see, mind you. To see more of them from your armchair, click here […]
A is for… Azerbaijan
Today marks the start of the April A to Z challenge, and I’m going to give us an alphabetic tour of the world with the help of my memory, my […]
Here’s a little square of blue
“Try to forget what objects you have before you … Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and […]
Celestial reflection
– Copyright Debbie Smyth, 15 December 2017 Posted as part of Square Sky
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