(NB This was written in November 2012, much could have changed) Addis Ababa Museum is up a long flight of steps and the gate and sign identifying the museum, which you can’t see, at the top are peeled and decades past their best. The neighbouring Red Terror Martyrs Memorial Museum is at street level and […]
Addis Ababa – a surreal morning at Addis Ababa Museum Read More »
What’s the point of reading the review of a hotel you probably can’t afford in a country you’ll probably never have the opportunity to visit? As a general rule, I don’t read hotel reviews unless they are relevant to my upcoming or recent trips. Unusually for me, I didn’t merely flick past a travel magazine
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In 710 AD the first capital city was established in Japan, Nara, and there it remained until 794 when it moved to nearby Kyoto for the next 1,074 years before Tokyo became the capital in 1868. While Nara was the capital, Buddhism became officially supported alongside Japanese Shintoism, hence the abundance of significant, old Buddhist
Buddhism and Shintoism – a very basic guide to Japanese culture Read More »
I lived in Japan for two and a half years and have visited three times since then, most recently in February/March 2019. When I say I love Japanese food, in reality I like roughly 5%, albeit that I like that 5% a lot. I love the idea of Japanese food in that the emphasis is
Connaught Place is the centre of Lutyens Delhi, conveniently pinpointed by an enormous flagpole (to the far left of the aerial photo; that photo is only half of Connaught Place) within a circular “Central Park” from which concentric circles of road and 1930s Georgian-style buildings radiate. The buildings around the rings are grand, colonnaded and
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At the end of a six-day working week, staying and working in the Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi, a peaceful, luxurious five star hotel, my friend and I had the Sunday off and decided to visit the Red Fort. Around the hotel are wide, tree-lined streets with an idyllic abundance of squirrels, birds, trees and
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