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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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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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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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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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Boudhanath
April 3, 2025  by Chris Pratt 


They say that most travellers pass straight through Kathmandu, to concentrate on the drama of Nepal’s...


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Shanghai Dawn
April 1, 2025  by Chris Pratt 


37 years ago I sailed into Shanghai at dawn, it sounds dramatic, maybe even romantic and it certainly...


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The Bridge
March 23, 2025  by Chris Pratt 


Anshun Bridge sits astride the Fuhe River in Chengdu, China’s fourth city. There’s been a bridge...


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Giant Panda
March 22, 2025  by Chris Pratt 


Despite China’s impressive focus on this principal national treasure, the giant panda’s existence...


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Pushkar Mela
November 16, 2024  by Chris Pratt 


Pushkar Fair, starting life as Pushkar Camel Fair in the nineteenth century, is now about much more than...


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Vinyl
March 14, 2024  by Chris Pratt 


For the home of reggae, the trendy late-night bars and clubs in Kingston Jamaica play an awful lot of Euro...


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