Article search results

A Conga line to Paradise | Stanley Stewart | China, Anhui, Jiuhuashan

Jiuhuashan, one of China's four Buddhist holy mountains, is barnacled with temples dedicated to the Lord of the Underworld, Bodhisattva Ksitigarbha, a surprisingly benign fellow

• Read more

Barefoot in Paris | Stanley Stewart | France, Ile-de-France, Paris

For a romantic weekend in Paris, the Mermaid was appropriately inappropriate: beautiful, flighty, inconstant, in a word, a bombshell. I was always waiting for her to explode…

• Read more

Bronco or Bust | Stanley Stewart | United States, Wyoming, Cheyenne

The West is a landscape of skies and infinities. In the loneliness of this place, self-reliance becomes a kind of religion. When the first settlers tried to farm this land, it broke their hearts

• Read more

Frog's scrotum - Once a Day | Stanley Stewart | China, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

In Hong Kong good health suddenly seemed so dull. The traditional medicine shops that thronged the side streets were irresistible palaces of the weird and the wonderful, full of exotic cures and fabulous ingredients

• Read more

In the Beginning... Kakadu and Arnhemland | Stanley Stewart | Australia, Northern Territories, Kakadu National Park

In these parts hats are not mere hats: they are biographies. Paul’s hat had been chewed by a crocodile. Brian’s hat had once carried a newborn baby; you could still see the stains

• Read more

Why Go To Paris? | Stanley Stewart | France, Ile-de-France, Paris

It is the genius of Paris that it lives up to so many of its own clichés. Romantic, sophisticated, bohemian, glamorous, artistic, seductive, Paris is diverse and generous enough to satisfy them all

• Read more