A Traveller’s Eye, A Thinker’s Heart
I like to tell stories. I like to take photos.
And I like to share them. Enjoy.
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A LAST BREATH AT THE PLAZA DE TOROS
In November 1994, Padma and I followed my photographer mate, Victor Englebert, through the gates of Caliโs main bullring, the Plaza de Toros de Caรฑaveralejo. The concrete terraces were already filling, families and old men in hats leaning forward over the red timber barrier. Brass music drifted in the heat. Dust hung in the air.
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LAS LAJAS
Santuario de Nuestra Senora de Las Lajas is located seven kilometres from Ipiales in southwest Colombia. Built between 1916 and 1948 in a valley on the Guaitara River, it attracts pilgrims from all over Colombia and abroad – one of most visited religious sanctuaries in the Americas. One shrine is to an Amerindian named “Maria
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MARKET DAY IN SILVIA
On a Tuesday morning in July 1994, my photographer mate Victor Englebert and I drove up into the hills of Cauca to the town of Silvia. Every Tuesday the Misak people โ also known as the Guambiano โ descend from the surrounding pรกramo and villages to trade, catch up and, just as importantly, be seen.
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ECUADOR WITH MOM
Padma and I lived in Cali, Colombia in 1994. My mother visited us and we took a roadtrip to Ecuador during Padma’s summer holiday. I didn’t keep a journal and never wrote about the trip. Just some photos and a few scattered memories remain. We visited Otavalo, the Middle of the Earth equator monument, Quito
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FROM ALEPPO IN A VW
In May of 1993, Padma and I and our VW camper van left Syria with the hopes of spending a few months exploring Turkey. That didn’t quite work out the way we had planned. Our VW wasn’t was licensed in Syria and the Turks didn’t accept our international registration. It’s all complicated but in the
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ON! ON!
When I think of happier days in Syria, nothing brings a bigger smile to my face than memories of the Halab Hash House Harriers. I first ran a Hash House Harrier event on the east coast of Malaysia in 1978. I was in a little village and saw signs with HHH so I followed them
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NEMRUT DAGI
My ICARDA mates, Eunice Carter and Michael Baum, did a four or five day roadtrip to Nemrut Daฤฤฑ, a ย UNESCO World Heritage Site, in April 1992. ย THe mountain top is littered with statutes and it is assumed to be a royal tomb from the 1st century BC. Perhaps we were pushing the season as a
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CARPETS BUT NO ARK
In June 1991, my mates Heiko Schnell and Ben and Sharon Timmerman and I drove from Aleppo, Syria to the NE corner of Turkey where it borders Armenia and Iran. Our destination was Mt Ararat. We didnโt find the ark but found this carpet/kilim/soumak vendor along some quiet road with a view to Ararat. I
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A WESTERN TURKEY ROADTRIP
From 12-19 April 1991, my ICARDA colleague, Anne, and I travelled in his little car on 2500 km roadtrip to Western Turkey during the Ramadan Eid. I did not take journal notes and can only piece together the trip via a vague memory and a few captions on photos. We began in Aleppo and drove
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