Out on the patio we’d sit, And the humidity we’d breathe, We’d watch the lightning crack over canefields, Laugh and think, this is Australia. Our Travel Pic theme for this week, of course, is A for Australia – and GANGgajang’s lyrics from ‘Sounds of Then’ contain a line that is just so quintessentially Australian –…
This week’s Travel Pics theme is A for Australia. And today, it’s the Gold Coast – Australia’s premier tourist destination. There are an estimated eight million overseas visitors to the Gold Coast every year – along with nearly 4 million domestic visitors. Think about that latter figure for a moment. There are 23 million people…
This week’s Travel Pics theme is A for Australia – and we head north, to the town of Gordonvale, about 30 minutes south of Cairns. Originally a separate town, it’s now effectively the southernmost suburb of Cairns city – but retains its rural roots, including the Mulgrave sugar mill in the heart of the town.…
This week’s Travel Pics theme is A for Australia – and for Tuesday, it’s the tiny town of Dorrigo, about half way between Brisbane and Sydney, on what’s called the Waterfall Way. There are only a thousand residents or so live in Dorrigo – but the Gumbaynggirr people lived there for thousands of years before an…
This week, we are restarting our alphabet of travel pics. After six months (and a few extra days) we’ve been through an A-to-Z, and so we are starting again – with different themes. We won’t get all the way to Z until Mid February – because our plan is to change to ‘daily highlights’ as we…
This week, our letter theme is Z, for Zoology. We’ve been featuring pictures we’ve taken of animals in our travels, on four continents – and the final image in this series (and this particular run through the alphabet) is of a swan in Mallorca (or Majorca, if you like) – an island off Spain’s Costa Del…
This week, our letter theme is Z, for Zoology. For Saturday, it’s not-so-secret Squirrel! London had, for centuries, a thriving population of Red Squirrels, which frequented its parks and open spaces. Like this one, in St James Park. But This, as you might have noticed, is not Red. It’s Grey. That’s because someone let loose…
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…
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