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The Channel Islands

This is the promised follow-up to the previous two posts (the one about my summer road trip through England and the other about yet more DT in London). So now to the Channel Islands, where I travelled to after London, first by train to Poole and then by ferry from there to Guernsey.

The ‘Channel Islands’ is a cover term for an archipelago of islands located in the English Channel (hence the designation) but geographically much closer to Normandy in France (to which they once belonged) than to Great Britain. The islands are British ‘Crown Dependencies’ and as such

18 October 2025 4 Comments

Cyprus

A week ago today I returned from my 12-day trip to Cyprus. I’m still busy processing all my photos, but I’ve picked a small preselection to use here in a first blog post about Cyprus. This is just a taster and brief overview of what I did on the island in terms of dark tourism. Over the coming weeks and months I’ll prepare more blog posts about specific places, and of course I will also have to substantially expand the current short stub chapter about Cyprus on my main website and add individual chapters about the various specific dark destinations within the country. For my book Atlas of Dark Destinations it is

18 January 2023 5 Comments