The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. For Wednesday, we return to one of our favourite cities – San Francisco – and its iconic cable cars. Back in the 1870s and 1880s, the city boasted 23 cable car lines – now there are only three. And they are…
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…
The theme for our travel pics this week is B – for Bridges. Our final image is one of the most photographed bridges in the world – San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. T his crosses from Marin County to San Francisco itself, and crosses the ‘Golden Gate strait’ .. a 5mk long, 1.5km wide stretch of…
The theme for our travel pics this week is B – for Bridges. Today, it’s San Francisco’s Bay Bridge. When most people think of bridges in SF, they think of the Golden Gate – but the Bay Bridge is actually older, having been opened 6 months before. Strictly speaking, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge is…
I was going through some raw video the other night when I found a two minute slice-of-life as we rode the Peak Tram in Hong Kong back in 2010 – and I remembered being told that it was a funicular railway, rather than a cable car. I asked Shirley if she knew the difference – and…
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