Friday marks a new week of images, and the theme for our travel pics this week is H, for Hoi An. This city in the centre of Vietnam is amazing – calm and relaxed compared to the frenetic, frantic pace of Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) or Hanoi. In its ancient city centre is the Chau…
This ‘Thursday Thought’ is late this week because … well, no excuses. It’s just late. As will be the Friday Travel and Saturday Arts pieces. Sorry ’bout that. — There’s been an amazing outpouring of sentiment in recent days for Steve Jones. For those who live outside South-East Queensland, he was the mayor of the Lockyer…
The theme for our travel pics this week is G, for Grand Canyon. This is the final in our series – I hope you have enjoyed them as much as we enjoyed taking them.
You may have noticed that this week’s Wed Workshop’ is actually being posted on a Sunday (Australian time). That’s because, as the poet said, “The best laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley….” I am, as I’ve mentioned, an occasional ‘enrichment lecturer’ on cruise ships – and in recent weeks I’ve been on…
The theme for our travel pics this week is G, for Grand Canyon. On the walk around to Bright Angel Lodge – the temp was chilly – just above zero, celsius – but the air was was so crystal clear.
I mentioned last week that Shirley and I are currently on the Royal Caribbean Legend of the Seas, around the South Pacific. And we have been having a great time – but that doesn’t mean that everything is going exactly to plan … Even as we sailed from Brisbane, we knew there was a fair chance that…
The theme for our travel pics this week is G, for Grand Canyon. As the sun starts to set over the South Rim, shadows lengthen but its still an amazing site – and sight.
The theme for our travel pics this week is G, for Grand Canyon. Don’t you just love the different layers in this vista
Here’s the fifth episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … This week – we talk to a cruise-ship cruise director in the middle of a voyage, we look at one of highlights of any Vietnam tour…
The theme for our travel pics this week is G, for Grand Canyon. The colours, the striations – the sheer spectatcle is amazing.
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