Markets

Gallery: Fuli Town Market, Guangxi, China

Welcome to my gallery of photographs from a day spent wandering among the stalls at the big Fuli market.  The market isn’t for the tourists but is a farmer’s market for the people of the area, near Yangshuo.  

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Where the Food IS the Tourist Attraction

Food, glorious food! What better sight for a tourist than endless displays of food, presented at its best by farmers and marketers, tempting and at the same time healthy. In the right setting, you can even put a “halo of health” on a glazed…

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The Heart of Nyaungshwe

Getting to Nyaungshwe from Mandalay by air is a surreal experience.  But then much of travel in Burma is, in one way or another, surreally beautiful or incongruous.  In this case it’s the latter. 

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Canal Saint-Martin: Where Gumbo Was

As reader Port Moresby guessed correctly, Gumbo’s Where in the World photo shows one of the cast-iron bridges crossing the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris—a popular attraction with a fascinating past, and familiar to millions through its movie roles.

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Where the Food IS the Tourist Attraction

Food, glorious food! What better sight for a tourist than endless displays of food, presented at its best by farmers and marketers, tempting and at the same time healthy. In the right setting, you can even put a “halo of health” on a glazed…

Read More

The Heart of Nyaungshwe

Getting to Nyaungshwe from Mandalay by air is a surreal experience.  But then much of travel in Burma is, in one way or another, surreally beautiful or incongruous.  In this case it’s the latter. 

Read More

Canal Saint-Martin: Where Gumbo Was

As reader Port Moresby guessed correctly, Gumbo’s Where in the World photo shows one of the cast-iron bridges crossing the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris—a popular attraction with a fascinating past, and familiar to millions through its movie roles.

Read More