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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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My Kind Of Town
October 8, 2022  by Chris Pratt 


Chicago, whether your interest is jazz or the blues, football (the sort that takes three hours for sixty...


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Leon
June 6, 2022  by Chris Pratt 


After days walking in the Picos de Europa, a night out in Leon – beer and tapas – was very...


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The Pennine Way
October 15, 2020  by Chris Pratt 


I was going to walk it in April but, again, we all know what happened to April.  So from 28 September...


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Bridge No. 493
October 21, 2019  by Chris Pratt 


Arch Gallery Bridge Number 493 to be precise. Just one of the 988 bridges (well, each culvert and earthwork...


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Just Another Festival
October 12, 2019  by Chris Pratt 


Jodhpur, the famous blue city in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan; although I think it was probably a bit bluer...


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Keep Death Off The Roads…
February 25, 2018  by Chris Pratt 


…drive on the pavement. I first went to Saigon (Ho Chi Min City or HCMC – but Saigon as in Bia Sai Gon or the Saigon...


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