This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. The city of Valletta was built, as we’ve mentioned, in the mid 1500s after the Great Siege by the Ottomans. The Turks had set up on what is now Valletta and bombarded Fort St Elmo – eventually they were repulsed, but not until the fort had been all…
This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. And I thought San Francisco’s streets were steep! Valletta is a lovely city to look at – full of history, and culture, and religion. But unless you are a mountain goat, there are some streets that are .. lets call them a challenge 🙂 Like the Triq-L-Ifran, or…
This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. And for Thursday, the Floriana waterfront. The waterfront here was initially developed with stores or wharves on the left (the Pinto stores seen here), and the Forni stores to the right (out of shot here, but you can see them in a #travelpic from earlier this week) In between…
This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. OK, I shouldn’t laugh. Yes, I am a republican, and would like to see Australia cut its ties to the British monarchy. But I admit, it’s puerile to snicker at this piccy of Queen Vicky with a pigeon pooping on her head. Doesn’t stop me doing it, though…
This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. I remember once being told that “You don’t want to see how sausages are made, or you will never eat another snag!” Well, today you get to see how the sausages of our #Travelpics photos are made. The pictures we choose are all from those shot by either…
This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. Valletta, like all of Malta, is quite religious .. after all, this is supposedly where St Paul was shipwrecked around 60AD – he was being sent to Rome as a political prisoner, but his ship was pounded ashore by storms at Malta. The locals apparently took him and…
This week’s theme is V, for Valletta. Valletta is the capital of Malta, a small republic about 80km south of Italy which has been at the crossroads of empires for millennia. Malta has been strategically important for traders and military forces from the Phoenicians and Carthaginians to the Greeks, the Romans, to Byzantine and…
This week’s theme is U – for Undulations. It might have been 6 million years ago that the Colorado River started cutting through the deserts of Arizona. Or it might have been 17 million years ago. It could even have been as long ago as 70 million years ago. But whenever it was it…
This week’s theme is U – for Undulations. For Saturday, it’s a sleepy New Zealand seaside site. Dolphins with droopy dorsal fins; earthquake-damage apologies; French street signs; frigid teal waters; rose gardens; mosaic galleries – we’re talking about Akaroa, on New Zealand’s South Island. The town is on the Banks Peninsula in the Canterbury…
This week’s theme is U – for Undulations. And today, it’s a hiking trail and steps below the Ngong Ping peak, on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island. Lantau is Hong Kong’s largest island – but until the 1990s it was largely undeveloped – home to fishing villages and not much else. In fact, film buffs may…
