This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. Friday’s image is of a streetscape that looks like it could be in any European city – except that is it, in fact, in Shanghai. The Bund is an embankment, or quay, along the banks of the Huangpu River, which runs through Shanghai. It’s made up…
This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. When we were in San Francisco the first time (stay with me, this is relevant), we went to the Asian Art Museum – and it used the spread of Buddhism as a chronological guide to the artefacts on show. Amongst other things, it showed just how…
This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. And for Wednesday, the Forbidden City in Beijing. For nearly 500 years, the Forbidden City was the home to emperors from the Ming and Qing dynasties .. a sprawling complex of nearly a thousand buildings, and covering 72 hectares of central Beijing built over a period…
This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. For Tuesday, it’s Hong Kong – a ‘Special Administrative Region’ of China. Fragrant Harbour, which is the literal Chinese name for this enclave, is a small island and a nearby mainland area excised from China in a bitter war with Britain in 1842. The war was…
This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. East Asia geographically includes China, Macau, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan and Hong Kong … but we only have photos from the first and last of those. While Japan, Korea, Macau, and Taiwan are all on my wish-list, we’ve not actually been there.…
This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. And our final picture this week shows a unique take on copyright in the Caribbean 🙂 We were wandering in to town from the Roseau cruise ship wharf when we spotted this corner store, which sells all sorts of things but obviously specialises in mobile phones…
This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. And for Saturday, it is Windsor Park and the national stadium of Dominica. Built on a former rubbish dump known as Cow Town, the venue is the home of cricket in Dominica – although it’s also used for everything from political rallies and calypso competitions to the…
This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. For Friday, it’s a typical street scene in Roseau, the capital of Dominica – and a town of just 16,000 people. Known as Wozo in the local creole, Roseau is on the site of a former native village but it didn’t begin to grow until French…
This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. Dominica is one of the younger islands in the Caribbean – in fact, it is still quite active, in a volcanic sense. There are thousands of fumaroles – vents which allow volcanic gases to escape – across the island. There are also a number of these…
This week, our Travel pics series is D for Dominica. We’ve mentioned that Dominica doesn’t get as many tourists as other Caribbean nations, partly because it has so few beaches, and is largely a volcanic island – quite steep and hilly. But what that means is that there ARE some lovely sights to be seen in…
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