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Sassoon Docks

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Mumbai, India 2006 or thereabouts Photographers are not welcome on the docks. There is not a lot of room to maneuver and the fishmongers resented us when we got in their way. I didn’t blame them. Time is of the … Continue reading

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Celebration in Oaxaca

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Oaxaca, Mexico 2016 My daughter, Marie, blogs from her travels in Mexico. Works of vegetal art appear at the zócalo in Oaxaca on December 23. Called Night of Radishes (Noche de Rábanos) men, women, and children of Oaxaca display their creativity by … Continue reading

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Oaxaca Style

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Oaxaca, Mexico 2016 Today’s blog post is from my daughter, Marie. I left for my Christmas vacation a few days early, to travel a bit on my own before meeting friends at a seaside resort. I’d been to Oaxaca before so I … Continue reading

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Kokpar in Turkistan

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Turkistan 2016 Kazakh men enjoy the sport of Buzhkazi or Kokpar as it is called in this region.  As the men rode to the playing field, the  horses became animated. They knew what was coming. There didn’t seem to be teams. … Continue reading

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Stalin vs. Dracula

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Tbilisi,  Georgia 2016 Stalin was born in the town of Gori, Georgia. He attended an Orthodox Seminary in Tbilisi which I walked past several times. On our way to the Caucasus Mountains, we ate lunch in the village of Gori, Stalin’s … Continue reading

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Modern Stylite

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Caucasus Mountains, Georgia 2016 Only one Orthodox monk lives in the small house on the top of the rock pillar. He is old and perhaps he will be the last monk to spend his life praying and fasting in self-imposed … Continue reading

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At the Oasis

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Kazakhstan 2016 We visited a camel farm to watch a woman milk one of the cows or whatever female camels are called. But milk was not the prime harvest from these animals. Urine was. It seems that in Kazakhstan drinking … Continue reading

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Altyn Emel

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Kazakhstan 2016 The locals said these stones were where Genghis Khan stopped to camp. I got the idea that his men set up a giant wok on these rocks and cooked something delicious. But Genghis didn’t take time for such fripperies, his men … Continue reading

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The Horseman and His Son

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Near Almaty, Kazakhstan 2016 A Kazakh man and his son travel in the mountains near Almaty.

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Defense Towers of the Caucasus

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Caucasus Mountains, Georgia 2016 As we entered the Enguri gorge where the village of Ushguli is located, we saw families raking hay and forking it onto old Soviet trucks. Men and women worked on the verdant, sloping hillsides. Children flew down the … Continue reading

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