Travel Pics Theme: G for Grand Canyon
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.
Travel Pics Theme: G for Grand Canyon
The theme for our travel pics this week is G, for Grand Canyon. Don’t you just love the different layers in this vista
Rear View Microphone podcast 005
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…
Travel Pics Theme: G for Grand Canyon
The theme for our travel pics this week is G, for Grand Canyon. The colours, the striations – the sheer spectatcle is amazing.
Travel Pics Theme: G for Grand Canyon
The theme for our travel pics this week is G, for Grand Canyon. Yes, that is a sheer cliff beside these guys. And no, there are no security fences between them and the sheer cliff. It’s a buzz standing out there, I gotta tell ya 🙂
Friday Travel – Cyclo rides and con-men in Vietnam
I took a cyclo ride in Ho Chi Minh city a couple of weeks back. He said he wanted VND500,000 (about $US22) for a half hour ride. I told him that was ridiculous, and offered him VND200,000 (about $US8) – a fair rate, I thought. We haggled, and ended up at VND350 – that’s $US15,…
Travel Pics Theme: G for Grand Canyon
The theme for our travel pics this week is G, for Grand Canyon. You know how people say of (name location) that photos don’t do it justice? Well, when (name location) is the Grand Canyon, then they are perfectly correct. This week we’ll feature images we shot during a single visit to a single location…
Travel Pics Theme: F for Flowers. New Zealand Asters
The theme for our travel pics this week is F, for Flowers. I’ve always called the plants Daisies – but that just goes to show how little I know. They are, in fact, Asters, growing in the bright winter sun of New Zealand. Beside the Wintergarden in Auckland that I spoke of, we also…
Thursday thoughts: Draining the swamp
I think it was a 1986 Apple commercial that first introduced me the concept, but it’s a metaphor that has stuck with me for three decades since then: “It is difficult to remember, when you are up to your neck in alligators, that you originally set out to drain the swamp!” I find that I spend…
Wed Workshop – Dot points = dead message
I am, this week, on a cruise ship sailing around the South Pacific. I say that not to make you jealous – although I AM ON A SOUTH PACIFIC CRUISE! – but to tell you why I am on that ship. I’m what’s called an ‘enrichment speaker’ .. In return for a ‘free’ cruise for…
Cairns Communications 