This week, our Travel pics series will be J for Jets. For Tuesday, it’s the final flight of a venerable workhorse. The Island of Vanua Levu was a 747 that had been in service with Air Pacific, as it was known, for 10 years before this, its last flight, in 2013. DQ-FJK was already 13 years…
This week, our Travel pics series will be J for Jets. We”ll begin with a Southwest jet in an iconic location – LAX. This Boeing 737 (all Southwest aircraft are 737 variants) is in front of the Theme Building. This building marks what was to be the centre of a giant glass-domed terminal planned for LA International…
Our Travel pics series this week has been I for Innisfail – and given that today is Sunday, it seems appropriate that we feature the Mother of Good Counsel church. As is often the case, this Catholic church sits on the highest point in the town, overlooking Innisfail. There was an existing Catholic church on this…
This week, our Travel pics series is I for Innisfail. For Saturday, we feature one of the last ‘original’ ‘Art Deco buildings in Innisfail (although even that’s a bit of a stretch) Allan Maruff House currently houses the Johnstone Shire Library – and commemorates Dr Maruff, an Indian-born medico, local councillor, and tea-plantation developer who moved…
This week, our Travel pics series is I for Innisfail. If the Water Tower (featured earlier this week) is one of the most visually striking symbols of Innisfail, then the Johnstone Shire Hall is the other. Built in the 1930s, using depression-era unemployed and costing a then mammoth £50,000 ($4.6 million in today’s money), the Shire…
I’m sorry – I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. It was just before Christmas last year, and I was in Innisfail taking photos of some Art Deco buildings when I saw these signs. I’d seen them before, when I worked in Innisfail as a young radio DJ more than 30 years before – and I couldn’t help…
This week, our Travel pics series is I for Innisfail. One of the problems of being a small town in the shadow of a larger, more famous regional centre is that you are .. well .. in the shadow. And Innisfail is in just that position. It’s a lovely town and it has a proud history…
“What do you mean this is the wrong Geraldton? The charts show this is Geraldton – what am I supposed to do with all this cargo?” In 1910, the town of Geraldton, in Queensland, changed its name to Innisfail – after a wayward cargo ship arrived carrying cargo for the port of Geraldton in Western…
This week, our Travel pics series is I for Innisfail. Innisfail’s a small township about an hour south of Cairns in Far North Queensland, which styles itself as “Australia’s Art Deco Capital”. In 1918, Innisfail was slammed by a cyclone that killed around a hundred people. So bad was the damage in Innisfail that fewer than…
This week, our Travel pics series is H for Ho Chi Minh City. Our final image in this series is of the Ben Thanh markets, in “District 1” of Ho Chi Minh City. I mentioned earlier this week that the markets have played a central role in HCMC (or Saigon, as it was known prior to…
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