The theme letter for our travel pics this week is T, for Thailand Lets start with a parish church – or the Thai Buddhist equivalent! Karon Beach is a beachside village about 10km from Patong, the tourist heart of Phuket. It’s largely a quiet backwater, especially compared to the Bangla Road and Paradise Complex areas of…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. We featured a photo earlier this week of the Flower Dome at Gardens By The Bay – but to wrap us up, it’s the Cloud Forest, next door. It’s a two acre garden, with cool moist conditions like those in tropical mountain regions between…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. For Saturday, we are on board a bumboat, near Clarke Quay. Bumboats are small, ferry-like vessels which are a tourist attraction in Singapore.. the name comes from the Dutch boomschuit, or tree boat. Originally boats that ferried people and supplies to and…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. Singapore’s built architecture is fascinating … there are pockets of colonial pomp, and stretches of classic Singapore rich people’s housing and brutalist public housing blocks. And then there are the newest structures – aspirational, eschewing all the classic straight lines of the…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. For Thursday, it’s the first of two pictures from the Gardens By The Bay complex – this one, from the ‘Flower Dome’ The complex was launched in 2005, and takes in 100 hectares, in three separate sections .. and was supposed to…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. For Wednesday, it’s the Sri Mariamman Temple, the oldest Hindu temple in Singapore. We’ve been there twice .. the first time at night in 2010, and then during the day in 2016 (when this image was taken). It’s a temple built to…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. For Tuesday, it’s the Singapore Supreme Court (old and new). In the picture, you’ll see a building with a cupola (the old Singapore Supreme Court) and a building beside it with a colonnade of columns – the former City Hall. Directly behind them…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is S, for Singapore. We start with the Marina Bay Sands resort … like a ship-on-a-stick but bigger 🙂 This is an eight billion dollar casino and hotel complex, topped with a curved ‘Skypark’, designed to look like a futuristic ship. As the ‘Sands’ part…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. To end this week, a sombre reflection – from near Kanchanaburi, Thailand. This railway station is in the village of Wang Po, just a few kilometres from the JEATH museum (which memorialises Allied POWs who were imprisoned there), the Bridge over the…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. For Saturday, it’s Wellington, in New Zealand, and its famous Cable Car. Rising to 120 metres above Lambton Key, the Cable Car gives magnificent views, and access to the city’s Botanical Gardens. Strictly speaking, Wellington’s service is not a cable car but…
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