The theme for our travel pics this week is E, for Eating. We’ve just returned from a two week trip to Vietnam – and as part of the holiday, we did a cookery class near Hoi An, making Cha Gio (fried spring rolls) and Banh Xeo (fried Vietnamese pancakes with shrimp, pork, bean sprouts and egg),…
When I was a kid, they still used to show the ‘serials’ before the main feature at the movies – and each episode of The Rocketeer, or Copperhead, or even Hopalong Cassidy lasted around 15 minutes. Which was pretty much the attention span of your average 10-year old. But even for grownups, the average length…
The theme for our travel pics this week is E, for Eating. Most of the food images we have taken, while traveling, have been of things that we really like. But every now and then, something is so bad it has to be documented. This is one such serving. In 2008, we were in Hawaii – which,…
You may remember that I wrote, some months ago, about taking guided tours as opposed to self-guided travel trips. And I said that I would update the blog, after I undertook another guided tour, to Vietnam. Well, I’m sitting in the lobby of the Ruby River hotel in Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City, waiting…
The theme for our travel pics this week is E, for Eating. We noticed that perhaps a quarter of the images in our personal Facebook feeds were .. well, feeds! And so we start this week’s image theme by featuring one from a few years ago. This was a Thai ‘banquet on a single plate’…
I was offended as I watched a 60’s era anti-American propaganda film on the bus yesterday, as we drove toward the Cu Chi tunnels northwest of Ho Chi Minh City. Oh .. I wasn’t offended by the fact that it was propaganda. I was offended that it was so badly done, and yet was still being…
The theme for our travel pics this week is D, for Disneyland. Our final image in this series is of the iconic Mark Twain Riverboat. This ride is a 15-minute exploration of the “Rivers of America”, and only 300 passengers can board at any time. At one stage in the 50s, up to 500 people were…
The theme for our travel pics this week is D, for Disneyland. Today, it’s Olde Worlde Transportation for weary park guests. Disneyland is not really all that big – but you can still get tuckered out wandering around. And besides – this bus looks cool! And if you are really good, you get to sit…
One of the first ‘Train the Trainer’ sessions I ever undertook started with us being asked to make a hot drink for a fellow participant. However, we were told we could only ask what what was required once – and after that, we could not ask for any further information. The idea, of course, was to show…
The theme for our travel pics this week is D for Disneyland. Today, we are not in Disneyland – in fact, we are actually outside California Adventure Park, the new(ish) sister park to Disneyland – built on the original car-park for the complex and opened in 2001. This coaster is part of the California Screamin’ complex…
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