The temple in today’s #travelpic is a bit misleading .. it looks like a Buddhist temple in the mountains of Japan – but Japan is a country that Shirley and I are yet to visit. Instead, it is the Byodo-In temple on the island of Oahu, in Hawaii. It’s a replica of a 900-year old temple in…
This week’s series of pictures have been those that remind me of some favourite quotes – .. and we’ll end the week with one about today – Christmas. “Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive…
For many Australians, a flight to a holiday island destination in the Pacific means flying to Fiji – a flight of around five hours. But for North Americans, Fiji is 12 hours or more by plane … whereas Hawaii is only 5, and has the benefit that you don’t even need a passport. 6.45…
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,…
I still choke up when I think of it. Hundreds of plaques; each one representing a young life snuffed out building a railway that their countrymen and allies would bomb out of existence in any case. Or the scores of names on a wall, memorializing the men who died as their ship was sunk without…
