This week, our travel-pic theme is X for Xerox – black-and-white reproductions of some pics we’ve taken around the world. For Tuesday, a flower we photographed in Oxford raises a reflection on Shakespeare’s famous line about “A rose, by any other name…” When he wrote that line in Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare was having young…
The theme for our travel pics this week has been L for London – and we’ll wrap up with a picture that evokes images of OIiver, and Notting Hill, and other London-based movies. This is a street in Bayswater – these days a smart, cosmopolitan suburb of parks and Victorian era stucco terraces – but…
The theme for our travel pics this week is L for London – and for Saturday, it’s the Houses of Parliament,and Big Ben. Well, strictly speaking, it’s neither the Parliament, nor Big Ben. Big Ben, for example, is not the tower. Or even the clock. It’s the Great Bell, which is in the clock, which is in the…
The theme for our travel pics this week is L for London. Now, I don’t know what you picture in your mind when someone says “the Tower of London” – but I suspect it’s not this. But this is, in fact, the infamous tower. Why is it infamous? Because of its role as a…
The theme for our travel pics this week is L for London – and for Thursday, it’s another view of the London Eye. This was taken from Westminster Bridge, towards the Queens Walk, or Eastern end. It was taken in the gloom, and we thought this was an interesting juxtaposition between the old and the new…
The theme for our travel pics this week is L for London – and the Wednesday image probably isn’t all that unusual for people from the US, or the UK – but for those of us from the antipodes, all I can say is … Squirrel! This cute little feller (or feller-ette) was in Hyde…
The theme for our travel pics this week is L for London – for Tuesday, it’s Buckingham Palace. It used to be that you could get up-close and personal with these guards – but these days, the gates are firmly closed, and this image was shot between the bars of the fence. Originally built as…
The theme for our travel pics this week is L for London – and the images all come from our visit to see our son in 2010. First up is the Albert Memorial in Kensington Gardens. It was built on the instructions of Queen Victoria to honour her consort, Prince Albert, who died of typhoid…
The theme for our travel pics this week is F, for Flowers. Today’s image comes from a garden in London – Kensington Gardens, from memory. We were there to catch up with our son, who was working in London at the time, and our daughter who was, coincidentally, passing through the city on her…
The theme for our travel pics this week is C for Churches. Today, it’s St Thomas and St Edmunds, in the heart of Salisbury, UK. We showed you an image of Salisbury Cathedral earlier this week – but this (much smaller) church is actually just as interesting. It was the church built to serve the workmen who…
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