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5th August 2023 Herat: a powerful read down memory lane

My recent dive into Veronica Doubleday‘s book, Three Women of Herat, was a double-edged exercise...

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Fiona Dunlop is a seasoned travel and food-writer who has been ‘abroad’ for much of her life. She doesn’t count countries but aims to dig deep beneath the surface of the places she visits. Food has increasingly become her focus, without forgetting art, architecture and design. Andalucia (Spain) is her second home, but French her second language!

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Asymmetry: This pic I took back in 2017 in the Wes

Asymmetry: This pic I took back in 2017 in the West Bank shows a Palestinian woman farmer in an altercation with an IDF officer.
Big versus little, machine gun versus farming tools, oppressor v oppressed, power v downtrodden.

Her olive grove had just been trashed by settlers, olives stolen & dirty old mattresses & rubbish dumped.
In the end she was forced to abandon her planned harvest & struggle back down the hill to her village with unused ladders, sacks etc. The illegal settlers remained - triumphant.
This is the reality I witnessed
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#westbank #IDFofficer #palestinianfarmer #olivegrove #settlerdestruction #confrontation #occupation

#autumn #autumncolours #clissoldpark #londonlife

#autumn #autumncolours #clissoldpark #londonlife

Today's march for Palestine in central London : #f

Today's march for Palestine in central London
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#freepalestine #gaza #ceasefirenow🇵🇸 #ceasefire #londonmarch2023

The shocking scene two days ago in the West Bank v

The shocking scene two days ago in the West Bank village of Burin. Israeli soldiers now patrol night & day to intimidate & occasionally make arrests. They even shoot Palestinian teenagers - dead. This is a peaceful village that I know well, harassed by extremist settlers for years. Now villagers daren't go out & certainly can't harvest their olives - for many their only livelihood. A life?
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#westbank #IDF #israeliarmy #burin #endtheoccupation #palestine #ceasefirenow🇵🇸

Guess who was here? 😳25 years ago Blair rolled

Guess who was here? 😳25 years ago Blair rolled up in Cordoba for a copa with his friend, the guitarist Paco Peña. His name lives on in the fabulous @bodegas_campos, a rambling restaurant / tapas bar / wine cellar dating from 1908. A big favourite of mine that featured in my book New Tapas - another life!
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#winebarrels #bodega #celebritycasks #tonyblair #winecellar #restaurant #finedining #bodegascampos #cordoba #andalucia

Hard to beat an authentic cordobesa salmorejo - th

Hard to beat an authentic cordobesa salmorejo - the thick creamy version of gazpacho sprinkled with diced jamón & boiled egg & that ubiquitous trickle of olive oil. Perfect hot day stuff @bodegasmezquita in what was once a medieval hammam
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#salmorejo #chilledsoup #cordobanspecial #lunchstarter #cordoba #andalucia

Córdoba's Centro de Creación Contemporánea de A

Córdoba's Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucia (C3A) - a spectacular building on the south side of the Guadalquivir river houses vast, playful spaces for installations, multimedia works & workshops. Nieto y Sobejano designed it to reference the architecture of Al-Andalus in 21st c brutalist style, above all in the 100-m long facade of 1319 hexagonal openings. At night this lights up in an incredible show... tbc.
inside an intriguingly iconoclastic exhibition by Victoria Gil - "Sewing the River" runs till March 2024. And free entry! A definite must
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#c3a #artcentre #centrodecreacioncontemporaneadeandalucia #victoriagil #hexagonalopenings #nietoysobejano #Córdoba #andalucia

Crescent moon Nov 17 : : #sunset #lasubbetica #cre

Crescent moon Nov 17
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#sunset #lasubbetica #crescentmoon #thinkingofgaza #andalucia

No shortage of palm trees or scintillating skies i

No shortage of palm trees or scintillating skies in Cordoba. Here the minaret of the Mezquita (mosque) converted into a bell-tower overlooks the patio of orange trees - slide to a simple backstreet
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#palmtrees #blue #orangetrees #mezquita #minaret #belltower #cordoba #andalucia

The pinnacle of Muslim culture in Europe #ceasefir

The pinnacle of Muslim culture in Europe
#ceasefirenow #gaza #palestine

My all-time favourite vermouth at Rafi's in Priego

My all-time favourite vermouth at Rafi's in Priego. Hits da spot
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#vermouth #class #aperitivo #olives #priegodecórdoba #andalucia

Village with a view : : #dusk #bougainvillea #view

Village with a view
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#dusk #bougainvillea #view #lasubbetica #andalucia

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