Monthly Archives: July 2011

Chatham light — and then back not only to the Highland light in North Truro, where it all began, but closer to P-town’s 3 lights, from the water!

Yesterday I got started in the early afternoon and drove the entire length of the forearm of Cape Cod, from North Truro down Route 6 to Route 28, right down to the very elbow of the Cape. It took just … Continue reading

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The Provincetown lighthouses – Race Point, Wood End and Long Light

Actually we and then I tried to visit these three lights on two different days. They are all along the very end of the Cape, beyond Provincetown itself and not easy to reach. Race Point light is no longer functional … Continue reading

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More and more lighthouses – the Three Sisters and the Nauset Light

I’m on Cape Cod again (hurray!) and in just two days this week I’ve visited another lighthouse and another and another one! On one day, we were headed for the Nauset light, which is on the ocean side of north … Continue reading

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North Truro light, Cape Cod, 2010

Cape Town was my favourite lighthouse — until I went to see the light in North Truro on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA, which if truth were told, I have seen not once but dozens of times since my childhood, but … Continue reading

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Southwold lighthouse, Suffolk, 2010

I wouldn’t have believed there could be a lighthouse sitting in the middle of a large village, even a seaside village, instead of right on the shore. But there it is, in the village of Southwold in Suffolk on the east … Continue reading

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Lisbon lighthouse and monument, 2009

In Lisbon in 2009, where I went to yet another conference, this one on access to medical abortion pills, we took the tram down along the water to where all the museums could be found, e.g. the nautical museum, the contemporary art … Continue reading

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Cape Town: my favourite lighthouse so far, 2008

In November 2008, I went to Cape Town to the AWID conference. But what I remember most is the afternoon we drove down the road by the ocean, with rain pelting down and the wind blowing madly. We stopped the car … Continue reading

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Isle of Wight lighthouse, 2007

In the summer of 2007, I discovered another lighthouse while on holiday on the Isle of Wight. By this time, I had decided to try and photograph lighthouses as a sort of project, if one per year can be considered … Continue reading

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Colonia, Uruguay, lighthouse and island, 2007

A year later I went to Buenos Aires for a meeting of editors of journals on reproductive and sexual health, sexuality, and related health and human rights issues. The aim was to help a Chilean group to set up an … Continue reading

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