This week’s theme is U – for Undulations. For Thursday, we are at Raglan Castle, in Wales. Dating back to Norman times (1100 or so), the majority of this castle’s construction came in the 1400 through to the mid 1600s. It was a perfect example of ‘conspicuous consumption’ – this castle was both a defensive…
Today’s ‘Undulations’ are in New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park. The region, on the southwest of the Southern Island of New Zealand, features three main sounds: Doubtful, Dusky and Milford – each of which has deeply gouged fiord valleys – remnants of the glaciers which have dominated the area for millennia. There are few roads .. in…
This week’s theme is U – for Undulations. Yesterday, we looked out at the Great Wall of China … today, we are standing among the remnants of another great defensive wall – this time in Northern England. Hadrian’s Wall is the largest Roman artefact anywhere – a defensive wall that runs for about 115km in Northern…
This week’s theme is U – for Undulations. I’ve taken a fairly liberal interpretation of that to mean hills, and valleys .. and so we start with the mountainous country around Beijing, in China. And the Great Wall that is built along those mountains. They say the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure…
For our final #Temples travelpic, lets head to Pura Luhur Uluwatu, or Uluwatu Temple in Bali. This is a ‘sea temple’, built on a clifftop, and is one of the most popular tourist spots in Bali. The temple started life sometime in the first millennium CE, but the current structure was expanded in the 11th…
This week, we’ve been looking at temples – and for Saturday, it’s a temple shrouded in smog, in the middle of a lake, itself in the middle of Hanoi. Well, strictly speaking, this photo was taken FROM a temple – but the image is of the “Tower of the Turtle”. The legendary sacred turtle…
“Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country” I remember, back in the days when I was a regular at a church youth group, discussing how this bible verse had (like so many others) an application in non-religious terms .. how we all tend to ignore that around us because it is…
Strictly speaking, this is detail from a Group G (Temple mountain style) Champa temple at My Son, in Vietnam. But that’s gobbledygook – so perhaps I had best explain. In the My Son area of central Vietnam, there are a series of temples and other structures – the last remnants of the Champa people,…
The Sri Siva Subramaniya Temple is in Nadi, Fiji – and it is, like many Hindu temples, a continuous work-in-progress. The ceilings inside are covered in murals depicting adventures of the gods and scenes from the vedas – and as soon as the ceiling is covered, a section is whitewashed and a new mural is…
The temple in today’s #travelpic is a bit misleading .. it looks like a Buddhist temple in the mountains of Japan – but Japan is a country that Shirley and I are yet to visit. Instead, it is the Byodo-In temple on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii. It’s a replica of a 900-year old temple in…
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