A few weeks ago I was accused of being, and I quote, “Another doomsayer doing his level best to kill off commercial radio.” That’s because I had the temerity to suggest that DAB+ Radio, or Digital Audio Broadcasting, risked going the same way as AM Stereo – into the dustbin of ideas whose time never…
The theme for our travel pics this week is F, for Flowers. Today’s image comes from a garden in London – Kensington Gardens, from memory. We were there to catch up with our son, who was working in London at the time, and our daughter who was, coincidentally, passing through the city on her…
Here’s the fourth episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … Enjoy!
The theme for our travel pics this week is F, for Flowers. We’ve only been to New Zealand, once – on a 14 day cruise out of Sydney. But we loved it for its beautiful scenery, its friendly people, its culture and its creature comforts. When we were in Auckland, we caught a hop-on hop-off…
I had reason, during the week, to use a famous line of Ralph Waldo Emerson – the one about a foolish consistency being the hobgoblin of little minds. It was from his essay, ‘On Self-Reliance’ – but as I looked it up, it struck me that I hadn’t read Emerson, or Thoreau, or their ilk since high school…
The theme for our travel pics this week is F, for Flowers. Our first overseas holiday on our own, without other family members, was Thailand in 2007 – and a week of that was spent at the Front Village resort at Karon Beach, on the island of Phuket. We have a lot of great memories…
If you go to Ho Chi Minh City (the former Saigon) in Vietnam, whether you book any day-tours around the city or just follow the guide-books, there are a number of places that are almost guaranteed to be on the itinerary. There’s the Notre Dame church, the Central Post Office (NOT designed by Gustave Eiffel,…
The theme for our travel pics this week is F, for Flowers. Everywhere we travel, we seem to take lots of pics of flowers – even though we live in a subtropical paradise ourselves. My mum was a lover of flowers, too .. and the Hoya vine was one of her favourites. She had one…
I was at a small restaurant last night, which we’ve been to regularly – and as it turns out, we were the only customers seated there. There were probably two reasons for that: One was because the heavens opened just moments after we arrived, so that would have deterred people thinking about whether to go…
The theme for our travel pics this week is E, for Eating. One of the best parts about taking photos while travelling is that looking at them later helps bring back the memories. This particular dish is one of my favourites – Honey Mustard Chicken Salad, with pecans, leafy greens, onion, and capsicum (peppers…
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