The theme for our travel pics this week is N for Night Scenes. For Friday, it’s a Good Friday scene in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. The sun had just gone down on Good Friday in Zona Colonial, the old centre of the oldest Catholic city in the ‘new world’. Shirley…
The theme for our travel pics this week is N for Night Scenes. They say that “what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” … but I couldn’t let this stay there. We only spent three nights in Las Vegas – and that was probably enough (since neither Shirley nor I are gamblers) – but…
The theme for our travel pics this week is N for Night Scenes. For Wednesday, our pic is of the MSC Fantasia, taken from on board the MSC Musica in Mallorca, Spain. Mallorca (or Majorca, as the Brits call it) was magic – and it was easy to see why the Costa Del Sol…
The theme for our travel pics this week is N for Night Scenes. This is from Sapa, in Northern Vietnam, on a cool, foggy night. The cloud cover in Sapa for most of the two days we were there was incredibly thick – so thick, in fact, that we couldn’t see the nearby mountain or the…
The theme for our travel pics this week is N for Night Scenes. These will be pictures we have taken on travels near-and-far, at night. Our first is only a short trip from home – to the Queensland Cultural Centre, at South Brisbane. I was here for a series of workshops on freelance journalism,…
The theme for our travel pics this week is M for Madeira. To wrap us up, a lovely view from near the Cabo Girao lookout. It was typical of Madeira – hills, and terraces, and medium density housing – and as my wife pointed out … gum trees! Now, just think about that: if you were to drill…
The theme for our travel pics this week is M for Madeira. Pretty much everywhere you look in Madeira, there’s a church. To be honest, I have no idea what this church is, in the lower third of this image. If you happen to know, I’d be grateful if you could tell me – because I…
The theme for our travel pics this week is M for Madeira. One of the most famous tourist attractions on Madeira is the Monte Toboggan ride. At the top of a hill above Funchal is the Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Monte, or “The Church of Our Lady of the Mountain.” It’s a beautiful Catholic church…
The theme for our travel pics this week is M for Madeira. The Madeira Botanical Gardens in Funchal date back more than 50 years. They were built in 1960, on land that was formerly the family home of hotelier William Reid. The gardens themselves are quite lovely – and cover a whole range if flora,…
The theme for our travel pics this week is M for Madeira. For Wednesday, it’s the Jaoa Gomes bridge – a 140m high bridge that connects two tunnels near the Madeira Botanical Gardens (where I took this picture from) Built in 1974, it’s one of the highest structures in ‘Europe’ (although, as I’ve already said, that’s…
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