Bra, Piedmont: Citta Slow

Bra's biennial Slow Food Cheese festival (next edition September 2013)

 The Slow Food Movement's logo

University of Gastronomic Sciences, in Pollenzo just outside of Bra's town centre

 Slow Food salami

Bra's pretty town centre

Contemporary in Krakow

 Małopolski Garden of Arts

 Małopolski Garden of Arts, interior

 MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art

 Bunkier Sztuki

exhibition at Bunkier Sztuki

Zakopane

Street eats in Krakow

obwarzanek bagels

zapiekanka toasted baguettes

zapiekanka stand in Plac Nowy marketplace

typical bar mleczny (‘milk bar’) dishes, including pierogi dumplings

On the trail of contemporary Polish cuisine

Restauracja Gessler's 1930s dining room

Milkbar Tomasza  
 

Restauracja Gessler's elegant vegetable soup

Krakow at sunset

Krakow’s bar mleczny (‘milk bars’)

a traditional Polish milk bar

pierogi dumplings and other traditional Polish dishes

facade of an old Polish milk bar

canteen-style service

the hip new Milkbar Tomasza

Old Ceylon: Colonial Sri Lanka 65 years on

Colonial architecture in Sri Lanka's hill country

 Peradeniya Botanical Gardens, Kandy

 Tea plantations

 Colonial architecture in Nuwara Eliya

Steam train, the Viceroy Special

Sri Lanka by train

Travelling by train through Sri Lanka's hill country

 Steam train, the Viceroy Special

Sri Lanka's rail map (note that trains no longer run to Jaffna)

Through tea plantations

On Sri Lanka’s culinary trail

Sri Lankan breakfast hoppers

 Tea plantation in Sri Lanka's hill country

Sri Lanka's stunning beaches

Fiery Sri Lankan guntur chillies

Turkey's Turquoise Coast: all photos (c) Rutherford Tomasetti Partners

sailboats in Göcek Bay

traditional Turkish breakfast

the abandoned town of Kayaköy

traditional Turkish gullets along the shores of St Nicholas Island

 Downhill biking on Montenegro's Black Mountain

 The Montenegro mountain trail

 Sea kayaking in Montenegro

 Midday sun

 Budva. Like the Croatian coast, but half the price

Montenegro Sea Kayak Safari

 Sea kayaking from Montenegrin beach

 Austro-Hungarian  Fort Mamula - an hour's paddle from the coast

Clear waters in Montenegro