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Fly Butter Butterfly

Sometimes while walking around Hong Kong, the leaves on the ground would lift themselves off the ground and float around in the air until I realised that there was no breeze, just 98 percent humidity and that the leaves were in fact butterflies.

Purple butterflies, blue butterflies, glistening butterflies, tiny pale butterflies and large drifting butterflies- Hong Kong has them all.

It reminded…

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What is that?!?! One of the best things about Hing Kong is the fabulous array of unidentified-no-longer-swimming-objects for sale in the market stalls. Nestled in the stalls, amongst all the various sea creatures, I spotted a few that I could identify: dried squids, a whole shark skin. ...

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Wildlife of Aus

I didn’t exactly have an Australian wildlife checklist for my trip but I was hoping to see some of the classics. Kangaroos and so on.

And see them I did.

Sadly, I don’t have a telephoto lens so snapping wildlife has been tricky but here are some of my highlights…

Swamp Wallabies that bounded up to us at various points in the trip, sometimes with Joeys in pouch!

I also saw rock wallabies, redneck…

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At Night in the Market

At Night in the Market

The night market in Cairns opens at 4pm and closes around 11. Why? It’s a night market because, in the dark, its creepy products will have the most impact on unsuspecting tourists.

“Ten bucks”, says my friend upon my arrival in Australia, “the first kangaroo you see will be dead by the side of the road.”

As it turns out, the first one I saw was dead, skinned and on sale as a rug in the night…

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Journey across the desert

Journey across the desert

Usually I’m a fan of overland transport. It’s easier, cheaper, more scenic and way more environmentally friendly.

Often, you can just show up to the bus station, buy a ticket, hop on and you’re off. Flights involve checking in, baggage restrictions, waiting around, and, usually, at 30000 feet, a distinct lack of view. Plus, when you finally arrive, you find you’re not in the actual city,…

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Sunset at Sunshine Coast

Sunset at Sunshine Coast

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Sunshine Coast

I love Australian names: Great Sandy Desert, the Sunshine Coast…

No one could ever wonder what they are, what they mean. There’s no etymology, no history to decode.

The Sunshine Coast was formerly known as the Near North Coast and was renamed in the 1950s and 60s in an attempt to promote tourism. Cos who wouldn’t wanna visit somewhere called the Sunshine Coast?

Actually many of these names are…

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The Wonder of Whales

Apparently Southern Pacific Humpback whales have incredible eyesight, brown eyes that can see up through the water. When they launch themselves out of the water and spin in the ai, or breach, they are thought to be checking they are travelling in the right direction.

They are attracted to bright colours and are friendly enough to swim up to a boatload of tourists even when local laws insist…

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Capital photographs: Lisbon

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Capital photographs: London

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Capital photographs: Dublin

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For the love of Glasgow

For the love of Glasgow

I’ve wanted to visit Glasgow ever since I first heard it compared to Liverpool.

Liverpool, my first great city love outside London. When I first moved to Liverpool I was too young to fully appreciate the negative reputation it had or to understand the car thieving stereotype of Scousers. Over the years I fell in love with the city and its people.

Now I’ve finally found the time to visit Glasgow,…

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Urbex Portugal

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Artist- Poetry From Around the World

Artist- Poetry From Around the World

I’m just an artist

Who got stuck

Lost in a painting

Where images are no longer enough

And the yearning for words only grows.

A short poem inspired by the communication difficulties of living abroad. Little tip: Painting and poetry help with this.

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The Girl Who Dreams of Darkness- Poetry From Around the World

The Girl Who Dreams of Darkness- Poetry From Around the World

The girl who dreams of darkness

Ran away

From people who kept her still

Went astray

When we opposed her will

  The girl who dreams of darkness

Fears consisitency

And breathes the desire of pain

Always reistence

And long to lie down in the rain.

  The girl who dreams of darkness

Tries to understnad

Unable to express her side

But only holds up her hand

To the howling of the moon inside.

  The girl…

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How Breezy Life Can Be: Poetry from around the world

How Breezy Life Can Be: Poetry from around the world

He remembered

How breezy life can be

When you just let things slip by

If you don’t grip too tight

Nor stand too loose

If you can cry

But not make crying your world.

Two men overlook their village in Parewadada, Nepal

This is the first in my series of poems from around the world. I used to attempt to write poetry when I was a kid and it was all horrendously cheesy and largely ripped off from pop…

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A beautiful sight upon my return to London

We were idling along, wheeling my bike and chatting. We had just left the park and it was growing dark. We thought we’d head back toward the lights and the noise of the main road. Suddenly our eyes were caught by a large frog chillin in the middle of the tarmac. As we watched in horror, the beam of headlights rounded the order, the engine revved and the wheel came speeding right past our little…