Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Bordeaux, France; Easter 2007 This pigeon perched on a gargoyle high above Bordeaux looks like it is standing sentry over the city. This was taken from the top of the Tour Pey-Berland, the freestanding bell tower by the cathedral. This is posted for Photo Friday, organised by Debbie at DeliciousBaby. Tweet
I released this through BookCrossing at the Oxfam shop in West Hampstead on February 16, 2008. It was picked up by an anonymous finder who wrote this message: Journal entry 3 by Anonymous Finder from n/a, n/a n/a on Monday, August 25, 2008 brilliant, what a good book. I didn`t want it to end but [...]
Jewish Cemetery, Krakow, Poland. August 2008. As we walked from the train station in Krakow, the old royal capital of Poland, to our rented apartment, a lady handed us a tourist leaflet offering air-conditioned coach tours of various ‘attractions’ around the city. Along with the guided tours of the salt mines, one of the options [...]
Vegetarian soup from Chinese Food Made Easy by BBC TV chef Ching-He Huang. Some dear friends of mine recently gave me a copy of Chinese Food Made Easy, which ties in with the BBC show presented by Ching-He Huang. It’s full of beautiful pictures and recipes that sound delicious – from mussels in black bean [...]
www.flickr.com Niltiac1′s Krakow photoset We’ve just got back from a weekend in Krakow, the old royal capital of Poland. We joined our friends Katrina and Dylan, who are living in Exeter for a year, for our first weekend away together in Europe. Krakow is a beautiful city. The streets radiate out from a central square [...]
Damascus, Syria; July 2008. Where the Great Umayyed Mosque is about peace and sanctuary, the Sayyida Zainab Mosque is about pilgrimage and intense religious fervour. In a Shia part of town, about 10 kilometres from the centre of Damascus, this beautiful mosque is patronised by many Iranians and Iraqi Shiites. I had to cover myself [...]
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