This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. For Tuesday, it’s sunken ships in the harbour of Port Vila, Vanuatu. Now, this is one of a number of wrecks that dot Iririki Island, the resort island in the middle of Port Vila – some…
This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. For Tuesday, a flower we photographed in Oxford raises a reflection on Shakespeare’s famous line about “A rose, by any other name…” When he wrote that line in Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare was having young…
This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. We’ll start with Colorado Cartwheels – the remnants of a farm wagon in a field just off Trail Ridge Road in Colorado. Trail Ridge Road is the part of US Highway 34 which traverses the…
This week, we’re looking at W for World Famous locations. And to wrap us up, Venice, in Italy. When you go to Venice, you simply have to take a Gondola ride. Yes, it’s cheesy. Yes, it’s cliched, Yes, it is only for tourists. But you still have to take a ride – because, well, it’s…
This week, we’re looking at W for World Famous locations. For Saturday, we head to Shanghai, in China – and the Pudong, or East Bank. But I should give a bit of background first, I guess .. For many people, the most familiar images of Shanghai are those of The Bund, an embankment, or quay, along…
This week, we’re looking at W for World Famous locations. And for Friday, it’s a bit closer to home (for us, at least) and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Often called The Coathanger by locals, the Harbour Bridge is the tallest single span arch bridge in the world. It was also the longest such bridge when it…
This week, we’re looking at W for World Famous locations. For Thursday, Westminster Bridge in London. With Big Ben. The Houses of Parliament. A Red Double-Decker bus. The Union Jack. The only cliches missing are a bowler hat, an umbrella, and a black cab! Actually, some of the cliches I mention aren’t actually accurately named.…
This week, we’re looking at W for World Famous locations. And for Wednesday, its the view from Victoria Peak of Hong Kong, and its residential towers. To get to The Peak, you can go by bus, by taxi, by car – or by a funicular railway – where two carriages are connected on a giant…
This week, we’re looking at W for World Famous locations. Today’s view is one of the most recognisable in the world – San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, crossing from the Marin headland to the city of San Francisco. And under the bridge, pleasure craft sail the waters as they flow from San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean.…
This week, we’re looking at W for World Famous locations. (It was going to be W for Winter – but we actually don’t have many winter images because we tend to travel in autumn or spring ..) Today’s image is, of course, of the ruins of the Amphitheatrum Flavium – better known to us…
