First up, welcome to the new Cairnscommunications blog. It’s got a new look, as you can tell – but it’s also got a new commitment from me. When I gave up full-time work about six months ago, it was to give me time to write about the things I love, and to travel, and to…
Shay Har-Noy is one of those truly enthusiastic speakers – a man who is so wrapped up in his sphere that it becomes almost impossible not to get swept up in his enthusiasm. He was in Brisbane prior to the G20 summit to talk ‘spatial data’ … and what it could do to help end…
The theme for our travel pics this week is Public Transport. Across Asia, Africa, and Central America, a three-wheeled ‘auto-rickshaw’ has been a favoured form of transport for nearly a century. Known by a variety of names, they are almost universally called Tuk Tuks in Thailand, because of the noise their two-stroke engines would make (Tuk-Tuk-Tuk-Tuk..)…
The theme for our travel pics this week is Public Transport San Francisco CBD has three unusual forms of Public Transport – the cable-cars (which we’ll look at later), electric buses (using overhead power cables, like the old tram system) and streetcars like this one which was outside the ferry building. Some of these streetcars aren’t the…
The theme for our travel pics this week is Public Transport. I might have mentioned in the past that I’m something of a nerdygeek when it comes to high-speed trains 🙂 So far, we’ve traveled on the high-speed * Trenitalia Freccia train from Rome to Paris (300km/hr – but it was an overnight train – so there…
The theme for our travel pics this week is public transport. We’ll start with the Bula Bus in Fiji – this is actually a shuttle bus that services the resorts on Denarau Island in Nadi, Fiji. Initially it was a free service, and supplemented the paid service run by WestBus – but on our last visit, it…
I’m relaunching this blog page tomorrow – and part of the redesign will be Tuesday Cruiseday posts .. but I thought I’d post this here, first. With all the bad PR that P&O is getting over the Aria and the Eden (and questions about whether they were rushed through their refurbishments), you may have missed…
It’s been an interesting week or two around the CairnsComms world HQ – what with visits to see my 91 year old mum, and Christmas, and other disruptions. That’s why the blogsite’s been just a bit … moribund … for much of December. But as of Friday, we have a new year – and a…
Ida Pfeiffer was an extraordinary woman – in a time when women were supposed to be devoted to Kinder, Kuche, Kirche – or children, kitchen, church. Instead, Frau Pfeiffer, having outlived her husband, and having sent her strapping young lads out into the world on their own, decided to travel – and then write about it, for…
One of the things I love about travel is seeing things that are similar to our western experience – but just a little different. A perfect example of that might be temples. Now, I have been to lots of churches. I’ve read quite about about the construction of cathedrals, and (although now an agnostic) I…
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