This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. And for Wednesday, the Forbidden City in Beijing. For nearly 500 years, the Forbidden City was the home to emperors from the Ming and Qing dynasties .. a sprawling complex of nearly a thousand buildings, and covering 72 hectares of central Beijing built over a period…
This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. For Tuesday, it’s Hong Kong – a ‘Special Administrative Region’ of China. Fragrant Harbour, which is the literal Chinese name for this enclave, is a small island and a nearby mainland area excised from China in a bitter war with Britain in 1842. The war was…
This week, our Travel pics series is E for East Asia. East Asia geographically includes China, Macau, Japan, North and South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan and Hong Kong … but we only have photos from the first and last of those. While Japan, Korea, Macau, and Taiwan are all on my wish-list, we’ve not actually been there.…
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 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 U, for Under. To wrap the week up, we are Under the Fog in Shanghai. The most populous city in China, Shanghai is home to 24 million people, and has the world’s busiest container port. It’s on the Yangtze River delta, and at its heart is…
The theme for our travel pics this week is E, for Eating. It’s my birthday today but this is NOT my cake – nor my candle. It’s actually a fireworks candle on a cake that was prepared for a fellow package tour participant in China a couple of years back. We were in a theatre…
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…
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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