The theme for our travel pics this week is F, for Flowers. Today’s pic is of the Tacca Chantrieri, or Black Bat flower. They apparently grow well in Australia, and I have seen one in a botanical gardens in Cairns, but this one I spotted in the San Francisco Flower Conservatory, in Golden Gate…
It’s curious how every cruise-line … in fact, every ship … differs from each other – and yet there is a certain sameness about them all, as well. Shirley and I are currently on the Royal Caribbean Legend of the Seas, sailing toward New Caledonia. This is our sixth cruise, on our fifth ship –…
The theme for our travel pics this week is F for Flowers. Today’s image is another from the Wintergarden, in Auckland’s Domain. It is, of course, a Hydrangea – or a high-geranium, as my mother-in-law was wont to call them. Apparently, a more acidic soil turns them blue, and a more alkaline soil makes them…
A few weeks ago I was accused of being, and I quote, “Another doomsayer doing his level best to kill off commercial radio.” That’s because I had the temerity to suggest that DAB+ Radio, or Digital Audio Broadcasting, risked going the same way as AM Stereo – into the dustbin of ideas whose time never…
The theme for our travel pics this week is F, for Flowers. Today’s image comes from a garden in London – Kensington Gardens, from memory. We were there to catch up with our son, who was working in London at the time, and our daughter who was, coincidentally, passing through the city on her…
Here’s the fourth episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … Enjoy!
The theme for our travel pics this week is F, for Flowers. We’ve only been to New Zealand, once – on a 14 day cruise out of Sydney. But we loved it for its beautiful scenery, its friendly people, its culture and its creature comforts. When we were in Auckland, we caught a hop-on hop-off…
I had reason, during the week, to use a famous line of Ralph Waldo Emerson – the one about a foolish consistency being the hobgoblin of little minds. It was from his essay, ‘On Self-Reliance’ – but as I looked it up, it struck me that I hadn’t read Emerson, or Thoreau, or their ilk since high school…
The theme for our travel pics this week is F, for Flowers. Our first overseas holiday on our own, without other family members, was Thailand in 2007 – and a week of that was spent at the Front Village resort at Karon Beach, on the island of Phuket. We have a lot of great memories…
If you go to Ho Chi Minh City (the former Saigon) in Vietnam, whether you book any day-tours around the city or just follow the guide-books, there are a number of places that are almost guaranteed to be on the itinerary. There’s the Notre Dame church, the Central Post Office (NOT designed by Gustave Eiffel,…
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