A profusion of colour, vast deserts, opulent palaces and ancient fortresses, spices piled high in the market, a lone cow holding up traffic, and some of the most lavish moustaches imaginable. Rajasthan is a photographer’s dream.
The top eight countries doing their bit for the planet. While so much attention is given to what more we can do to combat climate change (and rightly so!), Verve celebrates what is already being done.
Positano sits on the Amalfi Coast, neatly between Sorrento and Amalfi. Notwithstanding a dark period of pirate raids, Saracen sacking and Pisa pillaging, the continuous sunshine and wonderful scenery has attracted artists and poets along with the rich and famous since Roman times. And now it was my turn.
Atop of Abbey Craig, a 100-metre hill to the north of Stirling in the heart of Scotland, stands the 67-metre National Wallace Monument, a muscular, Victorian gothic structure befitting the rebel leader whom it commemorates.
There are around 10,000 people interred at Symonds Street Cemetery ‒ though around three quarters of the headstones have decayed owing to their often timber construction.
