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Lance Richardson

Lance Richardson is a writer and photographer specialising in culture and history, with a particular interest in anthropology.

Essay

Home and away

Lance Richardson It's not just about the journey, writes Lance Richardson, it's about your starting blocks.

USA

One day three ways: San Francisco

Lance Richardson Spend the morning roaming the Presidio pathways before heading into the urban bustle for shopping and art.

Hotels

New York newcomers

Lance Richardson and Jane Reddy Three new hotels are ripe for the picking in the Big Apple.

Spain

Champagne in the bath

Madrid

Lance Richardson You can tell a hotel is fancy if it has a revolving door.

UK

A romp between legendary museums

British Museum

Lance Richardson Instead of working in a pub in Shepherds Bush, I bounced between London's legendary museums as a temp for hire.

Canada

Twenty reasons to visit Vancouver

vancouver

Lance Richardson From skiing and hiking to food, wine and art - this is the best Vancouver has to offer.

Postcard

Oman ... for the ultimate Arabic makeover

Oman

Lance Richardson This is the story of how I became the Islamic Eliza Doolittle, transformed from a clueless Westerner into something approaching Arab authenticity.

USA

Yellowstone ... barely room to move

Yellowstone

Lance Richardson Inconveniences come in many shapes and sizes.

Victoria

Melbourne... tennis isn't always love all

General view of Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne during the quarterfinal match 
between Kei Nishikori of Japan and Andy Murray of Great Britain on 25 Jan 2012, day ten of the 2012 Australian 
Open. Photograph by Getty Images.  SHD 
TRAVEL MARCH 4 POSTCARD.
tennis

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Lance Richardson Parallels with classical Greece abound in Melbourne, at least at the MCG.

Europe

Where strangers on a train can turn nasty

old man at Prague 
railway station, Prague, Czech Republic.

Lance Richardson ON NEW Year's Eve, 22-year-old Erin Langworthy walked onto the bridge over the Zambezi River and bungeed off.

POSTCARD

Jo'burg ... for an urban jungle full of surprises

johannesburg. postcard, jan 15

Lance Richardson It took a while before I saw my wry amusement for what it really was - naivety. By this point, the streets had grown cold and dark.

USA

A bruising in the badlands

YELLOWSTONE POSTCARD. NORTH DAKOTA BADLANDS. Bentonite hill details showing erosion gullies. Theodore Roosevelt National Park (

Lance Richardson ABOUT 640,000 years ago, Yellowstone, the world's largest supervolcano, erupted in the north-west of modern-day Wyoming.

Kenya ... for a brush with stillness in the wild rush

Masai, Kenya.

Lance Richardson KENYA is the sort of place where a frantic safari in search of big cats can take a sudden turn.

Abu Dhabi

To dream, perchance to sleep

Abu dubai

Lance Richardson SOMETIMES friends will tell me the details of their dreams. These are almost always less interesting than they think they are.

New York ... where a hurricane is mostly hot air

New York

Lance Richardson I SPENT last Christmas in Chinchilla, wading through streets as waterlogged as a low-lying estuary.