Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Liz (aka KiwiWriter) at Write to Travel runs a weekly feature interviewing travel writers. This week she was kind enough to interview me. The questions were wide ranging, from how I got started in travel writing to my predictions for the future. “…I wanted to be a writer from an early age, although I also [...]
My mother sent me off to university with a folder full of her recipes, including this one for spinach pie. It’s one of my very favourite meals and always a hit in my household. I love the combination of sweet spinach with rich, salty feta, wrapped in delicious flaky pastry. You can use the same [...]
The rise of the web and the popularity of blogs and other citizen media is a challenge for traditional media owners. Newspapers and magazines are torn between wanting to compete directly, and wanting to stick to their guns and do what they do best. The rules of the game have changed. The Guardian has responded [...]
My other great passion is food and I write about this over at The Gooseberry Fool so I particularly enjoy reading articles that combine the two. This week The Guardian has an article on where you can find the best examples of top 10 classic dishes around the world, from sushi in Tokyo to pizza [...]
Wild Blueberry Pancakes Our champion representing Canada in the Global Breakfast Tournament is Tamara from Muskoka in Ontario. Over time, I’ve altered my mom’s original pancake recipe to make a version that’s a little healthier and lighter. The trick of beating the egg white separately is something I picked up from my husband’s favourite waffle [...]
The Guardian yesterday devoted the cover of its feature supplement G2 and four pages within it to the fact that its women’s editor Kira Cochrane has decided to lose weight. The tagline on the cover is “the feminist dieter” and Cochrane is also going to be writing a fortnightly column about it. I must admit, [...]
Were you one of the hundreds, if not thousands, of British Airways customers stranded in New York over the new year period? It’s worth contacting the Customer Relations department – you might get some free flights out of it. My recent trip to New York was extended by three days because BA cancelled our flight [...]
This is a guest post by Natasha Judd, a New Zealand writer, traveller and self-described web geek, currently living in London. Her first novel Lessons to Learn, which deals with the challenges and culture shock faced by a Kiwi English language teacher in Korea, was published by Cape Catley in 2007. Natasha also runs the [...]
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