farflungplaces

Travel writer, #1 books on Turkmenistan and Vanuatu. Loves history, volcanoes & music. A bottle of wine, fresh bread & cheese on a beach is luxury travel.

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A journey into Nagorno-Karabakh, before the latest war and loss of territory.

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#Armenia #Azerbaijan #Travel #travelphotography

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@ForagerSteve Way too low. Hope you are reacting to this as you did to the Vienna Airport offer!

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2 AM view of the #iceland #volcano from the sea.

@icevolcanoes

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The Iceland volcanic eruption from sea at midnight #Iceland #Eruption #Reykjanes

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There is more than lava at the top of Samoa's highest Volcano. Meet Crater Man (and not forgetting the loyal Crater Dog too). #travel #volcanoes #Pacific

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The view from Robert Louis Stevenson's chair on his balcony overlooking the Pacific Ocean in #Samoa. Worth escaping the #Edinburgh winter for. #Travel #writers

#Blog on Stevenson and visiting his #Pacific haunts https://t.co/Hk5FqPlm3d

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Travelling through #Romania following the trail of Nicolae Ceausescu. #Blog #travel

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The story of the monumental statue that commemorates the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress in #Belarus

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Despite the political troubles of Belarus, Minsk is a great place to visit. East meets West, and East still comes out ahead, except perhaps in the position of the main KFC.

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#travel #travelphotography #Blog

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The small village in France that remains a time capsule from the Second World War and its horrors.

#travel #WW2 #Blog

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You cannot travel there for a while but Kotor is a beautiful city in #Montenegro even more so when the Cruise Ships have left.

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Our top 10 things to do in Tirana, including some hidden statues of Lenin And Stalin, slightly damaged as they were pulled down. #Albania #travel #Tirana

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Deep under the suburbs of Tirana is Hoxha's hidden city. A place large enough for the government to sit in a purpose built assembly

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#travel #TravelTuesday #bunker #Albania #coldwar

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Visiting Wolf's Lair, Hitlers secret #WWII WWII HQ for the war on the eastern front. How to get there and where to stay for an unforgettable trip back in #History #photography #travelphotography #Poland

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How to get into the UK in the back of a lorry.

"with Brexit and all that, there may not be so many opportunities. I am going to learn German...instead"

#travel #immigration #Brexit #Calais #lorrydeaths

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Stalin, a man not celebrated too much in most of the world is still popular in his tome town of Gori in Georgia. You can even buy gold statues of him in gift shops. #travel #Stalin #travelblog

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More Troglodyte dwellings in Georgia @ Uplistsikhe where a King and 20,000 of his subjects lived.

Quite ornate and well worth exploring, they have survived earthquakes and Mongol invasion. #travel #mongols #travelphotography #Blog

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The cool mountain city in Georgia where the locals hid from the Mongols, but sensibly continued to make wine. #travel #travelblogger #TravelTuesday

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They may be rusty and old, but it as an experience you will never forget. Climb aboard a cable car from the 1950's in Chiatura, Georgia. #travel #travelphotography #blog

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The house where it all began. A decrepit #Tbilisi house where Stalin began his career, printing revolutionary material in a hidden cellar reached by climbing down a well. #travel #Blog

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