This week, our letter theme is Z, for Zoology. We’ll be featuring pictures we’ve taken of animals in our travels, on four continents. For Friday, it’s North America .. and the California Sea Lions that have taken over Pier 39 in San Francisco. It was just after the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 that sea…
This week, our letter theme is Z, for Zoology. For Thursday, lets head to Pura Luhur Uluwatu, or Uluwatu Temple in Bali. This is a ‘sea temple’, built on a clifftop, and is one of the most popular tourist spots in Bali. The temple started life sometime in the first millennium CE, but the current…
This week, our letter theme is Z, for Zoology. Are you Llooking at me? Are you? ‘Cause we are Llooking at you! Yes, I know these are alpacas, not llamas, but I don’t often get the chance to commit such puns to the page … Oh, all right, Alpaca it in now… Last year we…
This week, our letter theme is Z, for Zoology. Mother Duck said “Quack Quack, Quack Quack” and all the five little ducks came back .. and brought friends with them! It’s mildly amusing, I suppose, that when we visited the world-famous San Diego zoo, one of our favourite photos was of a duck and her…
This week, our letter theme is Z, for Zoology. We’ll be featuring pictures we’ve taken of animals in our travels, on four continents. The first is of butterflies feeding on bananas from Asia – in Singapore, and more specifically on Sentosa Island. Sentosa is a resort and theme attraction in Singapore which includes an…
Here’s the Eleventh episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel and Cruising This week in cruise news – hello, and goodbye, to ships servicing Australia; and in Travel – what happens when you negotiate a price – and the local wants more later? Enjoy!
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is Y – for You should see the view! For the final picture in this series, we’ve returned to our home city, Brisbane. The city’s based around the Brisbane River, and the CBD is fed by five road bridges, two pedestrian bridges and a railway bridge – the Story, Captain…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is Y – for You should see the view! For Saturday, it’s the Forest Sky Pier at Coffs Harbour, roughly halfway between Sydney and Brisbane. The Sky Pier is at Sealy Point lookout, a few minutes north of Coffs – and near the Big Banana tourist attraction (which…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is Y – for You should see the view! Shot from on board the Legend of the Seas in the South Pacific, this container ship at sunset shows that even something as stocky and square as a container ship can be beautiful, in the right circumstances. We…
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…
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