This week, our Travel pics series is B for Barbados. All the images were taken in a quick visit in April 2015 – Barbados was a port on our Caribbean-to-Europe cruise. It was amusing, as we sailed toward Barbados … a number of times on the night before, and on the morning of, our arrival we…
This week, our Travel pics series is B for Barbados. Today’s image is of a beach shack on the shores of Carlisle Bay, in Bridgetown – the capital of Barbados. Our tour guide told us that this shack (and its previous incarnations) had been there since the 1600s, when Barbados was settled by Europeans – but…
This week, our Travel pics series is B for Barbados. For Wednesday, an image from Orchid World, one of the most colourful locations in an already colourful island! Orchid World is a garden featuring around 5000 garden orchids – although obviously they aren’t all in bloom at the same time 🙂 I should stress that they are…
This week, our Travel pics series is B for Barbados. Barbados, like many Caribbean countries, has a deep, rich religious history – and there are a number of churches that have become tourist attractions in their own right. St James’, St John’s, St Lucy’s .. they were all first built in the 1600s – but fires and…
This week, our Travel pics series is B for Barbados. All the images were taken in a quick visit in April 2015 – Barbados was a port on our Caribbean-to-Europe cruise and it was only a taste. We begin at the port of Bridgetown, or, officially, Deep Water Harbour. The port was constructed in the late…
This week, our travel pics theme has been A for Australia. The final pic in this series is, of course, of Sydney Harbour – but not the usual angle. You can see the Harbour Bridge, and the Opera House to the left .. but the sun flare over the CBD should tell you that it is…
It’s Saturday, and our travel pics theme is A for Australia – so, to mark the day, it’s an Aussie Rules game. For those from overseas that haven’t seen a game, it’s Australia’s most popular code of Football, played on an oval pitch with 18 players a side. Unlike English Football (soccer), you are allowed…
Out on the patio we’d sit, And the humidity we’d breathe, We’d watch the lightning crack over canefields, Laugh and think, this is Australia. Our Travel Pic theme for this week, of course, is A for Australia – and GANGgajang’s lyrics from ‘Sounds of Then’ contain a line that is just so quintessentially Australian –…
This week’s Travel Pics theme is A for Australia. And today, it’s the Gold Coast – Australia’s premier tourist destination. There are an estimated eight million overseas visitors to the Gold Coast every year – along with nearly 4 million domestic visitors. Think about that latter figure for a moment. There are 23 million people…
This week’s Travel Pics theme is A for Australia – and we head north, to the town of Gordonvale, about 30 minutes south of Cairns. Originally a separate town, it’s now effectively the southernmost suburb of Cairns city – but retains its rural roots, including the Mulgrave sugar mill in the heart of the town.…
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