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Camagüey Market,  Cuba,  December 2016 – Hex colour ref:  ffaacc A colourful note on carnation pink: It seems that the first recorded use of carnation as a colour name in […]
Fruit and Veg

Impossible to Resist

  “Literature and travel are anciently, inevitably tangled.  Journeys suggest stories, stories take the form of journeys, odyssey, exoduses, pilgrims’ and rakes’ progresses” – Jonathan Raban, For Love and Money […]

Sweet Istanbul

Hex colour reference:  #158078 A colourful note:  this dark green, with a hint of blue, is known in current Crayola boxes as pine green.  In fact, this shade of green featured in the original […]
Sweet Istanbul

Hot to Trot

Why not let these beautiful slippers take the heat! These jazzy images are created by making a heat map (using Picasa) of the following photo of slippers in a Tunisian […]

The Colours of La Boqueria

La Boqueria Market in Barcelona  (official name Mercat de Sant Josep de la Boqueria) is the best known of the city’s markets, attracting tourists of all nationalities by the shopping […]

Fruit and veg around the world

It’s Sunday again and time to publish my contribution to this week’s Sunday Stills challenge. In Tunisia: In Scotland: In a supermarket in Los Angeles: A stall in Moscow: In […]