Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Sadly the owners of Danzante Hotel, a small eco hotel in Baja California, have sold up and a major tourist development is underway, according to the Intelligent Travel blog. Intelligent Travel also has a round-up of hotel deals in New York this winter. Have you heard about travel auction site Priceline but never tried it? [...]
Look at this gorgeous Romanesco cauliflower that came in my vegetable box the other week. Half of it made a delicious Sophie Grigson curry recipe and the other half went in my own improvised vegetable risotto. It tastes almost exactly like white cauliflower but slightly more piquant because of the greenish tinge. I particularly like [...]
Passports with Purpose: A travel blogging initiative to raise money for Heifer International. Raffle tickets go on sale on December 1 and remain available for the rest of the month. It’s a worthy cause and there are some great prizes on offer. More information. World map giveaway: Leave an entertaining comment on the relevant post [...]
Last chance for tickets to see me in The Tempest. I’m playing Miranda in an amateur production of The Tempest on Tuesday night. Today was the first dress rehearsal and we have another run-through on Monday night. We are performing at the Candid Arts Trust in Angel-Islington, which is an atmospheric room filled with ready-made [...]
BookCrossing book is discovered and journalled after three years. Hurray!. I released this on 19 December 2005 in the little stone play cottage in Birchgrove Oval in Sydney. Three years later, an anonymous finder has picked it up and left this message: Journal entry 8 by Members Plus details…AnonymousFinderMembers Plus details… from n/a, n/a n/a [...]
Dakar, Senegal; May 2007 Goree Island lies just off the coast of Dakar, the Senegalese capital. Today it’s a happy and mellow place where people hang out on the beach, play soccer in the dusty town square and fish from wooden boats from the warm waters of the tropical Atlantic. A few people make their [...]
No turkey and pumpkin pie on this side of the Pond, but I’ll take the opportunity to give thanks all the same Happy Thanksgiving to any American readers. And happy belated Thanksgiving for my Canadian friends (who celebrated it a month ago). Being Australian and living in Britain, Thanksgiving does not form part of my [...]
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