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Big trip 
Venice of the East
March 30, 2026  by Chris Pratt 


Barishal, nestled deep in Bangladesh’s delta, sits amongst a network of canals and rivers seeping...


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Big trip 
Siyaram Akhara
March 25, 2026  by Chris Pratt 


Sandwiched between the flower market and the Hooghly River by the iconic Howrah Bridge is Kolkata’s...


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Short trip 
Bodu Hithi
December 7, 2025  by Chris Pratt 


It’s not the usual sun-kissed sky of a typical Maldives travel brochure, but with an unseasonable...


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Big trip 
Dussehra
October 2, 2025  by Chris Pratt 


It’s another festival and I appear to be in the middle of it (better timing at last). It’s...


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Big trip 
Men At Work
October 1, 2025  by Chris Pratt 


All this way to see the Taj Mahal and the main dome has grown a nasty dose of scaffolding. So rather...


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Big trip 
Banaras
September 29, 2025  by Chris Pratt 


That’s the name that became widely used in colonial times; and is still used by the locals and on the railways...


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A long walk 
The Old Forge
September 20, 2025  by Chris Pratt 


“Let’s walk to the pub”, he said. “Fine, I’ll bring my dog”, I replied....


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Just a picture... 
Whitstable
September 8, 2025  by Chris Pratt 


It’s at the seaside, on the North Kent coast and the furthest reaches of the Thames Estuary, which...


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Big trip 
Road Trip
July 7, 2025  by Chris Pratt 


There are worse things to do than drive around Europe for a month; and it was nice that it didn’t...


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Just a picture... 
Barn Find
May 17, 2025  by Chris Pratt 


It’s not every day you find a Porsche Carrera 3.2 from 1989 (that’s the one with the more...


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