The theme letter for our travel pics this week is Y – for You should see the view! Shot from on board the Legend of the Seas in the South Pacific, this container ship at sunset shows that even something as stocky and square as a container ship can be beautiful, in the right circumstances. We…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is Y – for You should see the view! They say the Great Wall of China is the only man-made structure visible from space. They say it, but it ain’t true .. on two counts. First, if you consider ‘space’ to be orbit, for example, then you…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is Y – for You should see the view! For Wednesday, we are at My Son, near Hoi An in central Vietnam. My Son was built by the Cham people, who ruled Central Vietnam from about 200AD to 1700AD – the area was finally annexed by the Vietnamese…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is Y – for You should see the view! This picture’s in France, believe it or not – but not in Europe. It’s a view from Noumea – in fact, from the Ouen Toro lookout. Now Noumea is the capital of New Caledonia, in the South Pacific –…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is Y – for You should see the view! We’ll start in London – and a classic view from St James Park toward the Blue Bridge and the London Eye. St James Park effectively extends from Buckingham Palace in the west to Downing Street in the east .. and…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is X (Marks the spot). Our final X is the Extensive canal system of Suzhou Suzhou is a city on the shores of Lake Tai, in the Yangtze River delta – and it is known as the Venice of China, because it, too, has a…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is X (Marks the spot). And for Saturday, the X is eXaggerated valleys of New Zealand’s Fiordland National Park. The region, on the southwest of the Southern Island of New Zealand, features three main sounds: Doubtful, Dusky and Milford – each of which has deeply gouged fiord valleys…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is X (Marks the spot). Today, I have to ask: eXcuse me, have you seen Nessie? Loch Ness in Scotland is a freshwater lake (or ‘loch’) near Inverness, and is famous mostly for its reputed denizen, the Loch Ness Monster. There have been reported sightings of the…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is X (Marks the spot). We’re halfway though this week – so let’s eXhume the past, in Rome. Let’s be honest – if you travel to the Eternal City, you just have to go to the Colosseum at least once – it is amazing in its decaying…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is X (Marks the spot). And for Wednesday, it’s an eXhilarating parasail in Fiji. The last time we were in Fiji, we had our 30-something niece with us (and her parents). Monique wanted to go parachuting while in Fiji. Her parents (who would have to have…
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