This week, our Travel pics series is G for Gardens. And here’s the thing about gardens. They don’t have to be big, formal, organised gardens like some we’ve featured this week. And they don’t have to be commercially productive, or a big tourist attraction, or functional in any way. Some gardens, of course, are tiny –…
This week, our Travel pics series is G for Gardens. Here in Australia, as in the US and other industrialised nations, agriculture has been industrialised – we have massive combine harvesters and air-conditioned tractors and giant insect-like cane cutters, and tea-picking machines that replace dozens of workers, and … well, you get the idea. While there…
This week, our Travel pics series is G for Gardens. Funchal, on the island of Madeira, is justifiably known for its flowers – whether in a formal botanical garden like these or in roadside beds beside the route of the annual Flower Festival. Madeira is an autonomous region of Portugal, about 800km west of Morocco, and…
This week, our Travel pics series is G for Gardens. Today’s pic is actually a triptych of images we took at the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco. The Conservatory is a botanical garden and greenhouse in Golden Gate Park, the park that stretches for 5km from the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood to the sea. The park is…
This week, our Travel pics series is G for Gardens. Some people have a green thumb. In fact, my grandfather was once reputed to have stuck a dead, dry stick in the ground – and have it grow. Me, I’m the opposite. If I plant something, it’s almost guaranteed to die. Although I suspect that’s partly because…
This week, our Travel pics series has been F for Fort-de-France. Our final picture is Fort Royal. You mean Fort Edward? No, Fort Royal. Are you sure it’s not Fort de la Republique? No, it’s Fort Saint Louis, I tell you! Confused? Don’t be – I will explain, I promise! The naval base and fort at what is now Fort-de-France…
This week, our Travel pics series is F for Fort de France. Well, strictly speaking this isn’t Fort-de-France – its the previous capital of Martinique, Saint Pierre. Or what’s left of it. Saint Pierre was the first European settlement on Martinique. It seemed like an ideal location – but then The Great Hurricane of 1780 produced a…
This week, our Travel pics series is F for Fort-de-France. We were in Martinique’s main port for just one day – on April 9, 2015 – while on a 25 night cruise from the Dominican Republic. We were travelling on the MSC Musica, on what I thought was an exceptionally good deal – a ‘re-positioning cruise’ that…
This week, our Travel pics series is F for Fort-de-France. The capital of Martinique, in the French West Indies, is not a particularly large city – with only about 165,000 people. In fact, the whole island has only about 350,000 residents and about 7% of the workers are employed in the tourism industry. Amongst those are the…
This week, our Travel pics series is F for Fort-de-France. Today’s image is of Britain’s HMS Severn (P282) tied up alongside the French navy’s Germinal (F735), at Fort Saint Louis, the French naval base in Fort-de-France. We took the picture in April 2015, as the Severn was on the final leg of her tour of duty in the…
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