Robert Preston Blogs

These finely crafted silver bracelets at Anjuna Market were beautifully arranged on a stall of Tibetan jewellery. The stall was inside a large white tent with 20 or 30 other jewellery stalls, all carefully showing their wares in neat rows or elaborat... 

I stayed in a very (very!) small room in a small hotel situated on one of the small side streets in the centre of Sultanahmet in Istanbul. It wasn't a cosy or comfortable room - it was cramped but clean. I'd booked it over the internet without knowin... 

This photograph of sand dunes was taken in the evening after a day of driving through the Sahara Desert in southern Libya. I'd walked away from the camp site, up and down a dune or two until the tents and vehicles were out of sight. I couldn't escape... 

This picture of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, was taken in Nepal. It was taken from a peak called Kala Pathar, which is higher than all but one of the mountains in North America and higher than all the mountains in Western Europe.... 

There really are monkeys at the Monkey Temple in Kathmandu. You approach the Monkey Temple (Swayambhunath) up a long flight of stone steps that get steeper as you get higher. Monkeys scamper up and down the steps and when you get to the top you can s... 

The little, brightly painted church at Breidavik, in the West Fjords region of Iceland, stands above a rambling guesthouse and above a great flat expanse of sandy beach. The church was built over a hundred years ago, in 1900, and is beautifully kept....