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Category: 04.Eastern Europe

Over the wall and beyond – regardless of whether it was still standing.

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Book Quote: Patrick Leigh Fermor’s Vintage European Hike

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Book Review: Imperium (Ryszard Kapuscinski)

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From School Dark Room to International Courier – Lessons in Contraband

Posted on January 20, 2022July 7, 2024 by damian

Extract: During the 1970s I attended a Lancashire secondary school. Perhaps, one of the more unusual ‘O’ Level options I chose was Art. I say, unusual, because I lacked dexterity, and couldn’t tell the difference between a Picasso and a Beano. However, several months into my Art studies, an off-shoot of the discipline presented itself, which certainly opened up an interesting divergence – photography.

So, whilst most of the other students diligently applied themselves in the Art classroom, a two-minute walk away, around the back of the school stage, over a period of months, I set to work with two long standing friends in the dark room to see how we could best exploit those unsupervised alternative curriculum hours.  

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Iron Curtain Travels and Couriering – Lessons in contraband

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  • From Parchment to Digital – Creating Our Travel Website
  • The truth, the whole truth …..
  • ANCIENT HIGHWAY STORIES – ABOUT THE TALES BELOW
  • 1. Orkney – A Pagan Place
  • 2. Lessons in contraband
  • 3. An Addictive Foe
  • Our India Travel Tales – Interactive Map
  • 4. (India) Mumbai: A Deathly Deception
  • 5. (India) An Innings Amongst the Dead
  • 6. (India) Lucknow: Educating Braj
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  • 11. (India) Mohan, Mohan who?
  • 12. (India) The Silence of Mandu
  • 13 . (Ecuador) The Virgin of Quito and Proof of Life
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    • I. INTRODUCTION
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    • iii. TOUCHING THE WALL – IN THE SHADOWS OF WARS (2)
    • iii. TOUCHING THE WALL – IN THE SHADOWS OF WARS (3)
    • iv. A REVOLUTION FROM THE SOFA
    • v. MIND GAMES IN BARCELONA
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    • vii. BETWEEN MINARETS AND MISSILES
    • viii. THE LONELY HEART OF DARKNESS – A MOROCCAN ODYSSEY
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    • xiii. PAINTING THE WALL – ECHOES FROM A FAULT LINE 
    • xiv. A REFLECTION
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