The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. For Friday, it’s Earls Court station in London – a name that may not mean much to younger readers, but which was emblematic to Aussies of my age. Earls Court was where thousands of Aussies and Kiwis made their home in England…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. It should have come as no surprise to see the Metro trains of Rome covered in graffiti – after all, the very word ‘graffiti’ is Italian (from graffiato, to scratch into … ) but I have to say, I wasn’t expecting a…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. For Wednesday, we return to one of our favourite cities – San Francisco – and its iconic cable cars. Back in the 1870s and 1880s, the city boasted 23 cable car lines – now there are only three. And they are…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. For Tuesday, it’s a MagLev train in Shanghai. MagLev, or Magnetic Levitation, involves using magnets of opposite polarity to allow a train to travel frictionlessly without actually touching the track – and using that magnetic repulsion to actually drive the train…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is R – for Railways. To start the week off, a station that looks like a classic ‘Victorian’ structure – but with state-of-the-art 21st century trains. Gare du Nord, or North Station, is the busiest station in Europe – and is the station for trains to Northern France and…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week has been Q – for Quiet Reflections, and to wrap us up we have an actual reflection. This is a reflection pool at the Sheikh Zayed mosque in Abu Dhabi. It’s also known as a ‘water mirror, and is at the entrance to the mosque –…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is up to Q – so we’ve chosen Quiet Reflections. For Saturday, we return to Lifou – an island we referred to last week in our P for Pacific Island series. Snorkelling here is lots of fun – and every time I see pictures like this,…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is up to Q – so we’ve chosen Quiet Reflections. For Friday, we’re in Corfu, and looking at Pontikonisi (Mouse) Island. The island (created by Zeus from the overturned boat of Odysseus, according to legend) hosts a Byzantine chapel – which you can just make out between the…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is up to Q – so we’ve chosen Quiet Reflections. We visited Dunedin, New Zealand on a cruise ship (the Carnival Spirit) and loved the city – it was small but vibrant, friendly, historic and beautiful. But it was as we sailed out again that I was…
The theme letter for our travel pics this week is up to Q – so we’ve chosen Quiet Reflections. To me, Cannery Row at Monterey Bay in California was always about Steinbeck, and his reflections on the flotsam and jetsam of society that was washed up on its shores. But then I went to Cannery Row…
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