Rudolf Abraham

Award-winning travel writer and photographer specialising in Central and Eastern Europe.

Seymour Tower

A walk out to Seymour Tower, around 2 miles (3km) offshore from Jersey’s southeast coast, at low tide. Jersey has one of the largest tidal ranges in the world (the island almost doubles in size at low tide), with the water racing out – and back in, a few hours later – at an alarming …

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OWPG Awards 2012

In a shameless piece of self-promotion, I can announce that I won two awards from the OWPG (Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild) last weekend, at an Awards dinner and AGM held on Jersey, in the Channel Islands. My feature on the 16th century Adriatic pirates, the Uskoks, and their descendents in Croatia’s Žumberak region (published …

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Kite surfing

Kite surfing off St Ouen’s Bay on the west coast of Jersey, Channel Islands, UK Photo © Rudolf Abraham. No unauthorized use.

Waterspout

Waterspout – fast disappearing in the few seconds in took me to change lenses and scramble up onto a largish rock – viewed from the sandbanks and extensive inter-tidal reef near Seymour Tower, at low tide, around 2 miles offshore from the southeast corner of Jersey, Channel Islands, UK. At high tide this area would …

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Istrian interlude (2)

More images from my recent trip to Istria, Croatia, while working on the new guidebook, Istria. The Bradt Travel Guide. Award-winning local beekeeper and honey producer Dario Vežnaver, in the medieval hill town of Oprtalj (Portole) Oprtalj (Portole) The dry bed of the River Mirna at Kotli, near Roč and Hum. It had been an …

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