This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. For today, it’s London, looking like a throwback to the early days of Doctor Who. One of my most enduring memories as a kid was seeing the Daleks rolling across Westminster Bridge .. and I…
This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. Today, its Mazatlan-Moggie! Why a picture of a cat? Because there aren’t enough cat pictures on the Internet! Seriously, though, this gorgeous grey mackerel tabby was sunning herself on a driveway in Mazatlan as we walked past…
This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. For Tuesday, it’s sunken ships in the harbour of Port Vila, Vanuatu. Now, this is one of a number of wrecks that dot Iririki Island, the resort island in the middle of Port Vila – some…
This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. For Tuesday, a flower we photographed in Oxford raises a reflection on Shakespeare’s famous line about “A rose, by any other name…” When he wrote that line in Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare was having young…
This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. We’ll start with Colorado Cartwheels – the remnants of a farm wagon in a field just off Trail Ridge Road in Colorado. Trail Ridge Road is the part of US Highway 34 which traverses the…
This week, we’re looking at W for World Famous locations. And to wrap us up, Venice, in Italy. When you go to Venice, you simply have to take a Gondola ride. Yes, it’s cheesy. Yes, it’s cliched, Yes, it is only for tourists. But you still have to take a ride – because, well, it’s…
This week, we’re looking at W for World Famous locations. For Saturday, we head to Shanghai, in China – and the Pudong, or East Bank. But I should give a bit of background first, I guess .. For many people, the most familiar images of Shanghai are those of The Bund, an embankment, or quay, along…
