Travel
Catalonia: State of Uncertainty
Having escaped police violence during Catalonia’s independence referendum on October 1st, trouble arrived this week in the town...
Catalonia: We Just Want To Vote
“We just want to vote” This is the message, in English, that many Catalans have been sending out...
Crossing Europe’s Frontiers #2: Pointless Pyrenean Traffic Jams
We’re all here, nose to tail, thanks to the “border controls” that the French government, brought into force...
Opening a Can of Worms on Europe’s Frontiers
The French are serious, they’re going to check everything. The road surface will be immaculate. They will ask...
A Micronation Once Again: The Saltee Islands
ff the coast of southeast Ireland lie the two small Saltee Islands. Their simple, low-slung landscapes, four or...
A Book of Migrations by Rebecca Solnit – photography by Dave Walsh
’m talking about The Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland, by Rebecca Solnit, which has been a...
Report: 97 Minutes in Barentsburg, Svalbard
Blather's Dave journeyed to the Arctic outpost of Barentsburg last year. And he finally got off his arse...
Barah Pal: 12 Castes of Gypsy Artists from New Delhi, India
A 30-minute ethnographic documentary about a colony of gypsy artists in New Delhi, India by Jennifer Rosen. 12...
Fata Morgana: Mirage
.... with photographs by Dave Walsh, music by Dacianos. There is something unnerving about watching reality bend before...
Tasmanian devils – Cedric to the rescue!
This time two months ago, I was in Tasmania - and I saw my first Tasmanian Devils up...