Fire in the City of Light
A few days before I visited Notre Dame in September 2016, the French police arrested a cell of three female would-be terrorists who were planning a bombing of the cathedral …
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This was my Poland
Make sure to check out this stunning collection of photographs: In the early 1980s, while Gdansk and Warsaw were in the midst of a sociopolitical upheaval of great impact on …
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Right to bear kangaroos
A friend and a reader from the United States, Chuck, has sent me this informative chart and asked about the situation in Australia: For starters, God bless the great states …
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Blowing up all over Iceland
Just over a year ago, I was walking in the shadow of one of Iceland’s largest and most unsettled volcanoes. Katla – kettle or cauldron in Icelandic – looms like …
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Krakow beats Amsterdam in Brit tourism stakes
This is, or isn’t, good news for Poland’s historical capital: The Polish city of Krakow has been named as the favourite destination for a short-haul city break for Brits by …
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Nothing new under the sun
It’s hard to be original in a world where everything has seemingly been tried and done before. Photography is no exception. Case in point – insta_repeat account on Instagram, which …
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European notes
I love the airports. I know that many if not most people hate them, finding them tiresome and often chaotic, a nuisance you have to put up with on the …
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Warsaw, Lest We Forget
During the night of the 20th of November, 700 Home Army soldiers from the district of Zoliborz (named Jolie Bord or Beautiful Embankment by the French monks who bought land …
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A giant, Star of David-shaped hole in the heart
There are two tragedies of the Polish-Jewish relations. The first one is that through the centuries of coexistence with each other we did not make for better neighbours and friends. …
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How I didn’t get busted for doing a nude photo shoot in Egypt
The short – and boring – answer is that I didn’t try to do one. Not that you would think this is a particularly controversial lesson, but doing nude photo …
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Luxor Massacre – 20 Years On
Almost exactly twenty years ago, in the morning hours of 17 November 1997, six Islamist terrorists slaughtered two guards and 56 foreign tourists at the mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut …
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Palm Sunday
The double bombing of Coptic churches in Egypt yesterday is another reminder, as if we need it, that there is a war going on, of Islamist against Christians, to cleanse …
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Antwerp – walking in a terrorist’s pre-steps
39-year old Mohammed R., a French national of North African origin, allegedly tried to imitate the Westminster attack in Antwerp, but was stopped without any casualties. A few months ago, …
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Looking the dead in the eye
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Death ends, not just in a physiological sense, but also metaphysically. The dead are unreal; they remain only as symbols like monuments and tombs, …
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I’ve got 21 beaches but the Gold Coast ain’t one
Another international ranking, another slap in the face of Queensland (“beautiful one day, perfect the next”). My local pride does not allow me to take it lying down on the …
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