Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Life has conspired against my best-laid blogging plans. I have some great posts in the pipeline – a fabulous Lebanese moussaka recipe from Nigella Lawson, my own homemade bright-pink vegie burgers, a review of Jamie’s Italian in Kingston, and the next country in the UN of Food challenge. However, I have been working full time [...]
Oslo, Norway; July 2006 Vigelandsparken, in Frogner Park in Oslo, is a park filled with fantastical sculptures such as this fountain. I had fun playing photographer and messing around with depth of field and shutter speed, to change the focus and appearance of the water spray. This is my submission for the week to Photo [...]
A round-up of travel links. If my post on Polish and Georgian food whetted your appetite for either food or travel, then check out this post about Georgian food on Intelligent Travel and this destination blog on Krakow, Poland by Andrew, a fellow Aussie. Amusing toilet signs in London, from my mate Jess at FushMush. [...]
British Museum exhibition on Babylon: Myth and Reality. In many ways Babylon is more an idea than a real place. There were other city states in Mesopotamia but you don’t see Sumer as a major preoccupation of art through the centuries. So what does Babylon have that the others don’t? The answer is easy of [...]
A snapshot of my life in January 2009. It’s really cold here in London right now – we’re apparently getting winds from the Arctic rather than the Gulf Stream. There’s often a dusting of snow on the trees and grass in the mornings, plus we’re getting heavy frosts. Apparently it got down to -12C this [...]
An update on travel blog awards, following from this post. This news just in. Mark Ashley from Upgrade Travel has contacted me to inform me that the Travvies will indeed run this year. Apparently there was a problem last year and the nominations were collected but something went badly wrong at that point. He plans [...]
Round-up of current awards for food bloggers. 2008 Food Blog Awards Today is the last day to nominate your favourite food blogs for the 2008 Food Blog Awards at Well Fed Network. You have until 11.59pm US East Coast time. This is not a plug. Most of the categories stipulate that you need at least [...]
Bordeaux, France; Easter, 2007 The picture shows a modern tram gliding by Bordeaux’s 18th century Palais de la Bourse – or the Palace of the Stock Exchange. The image is reflected in the water mirror on the embankment of the Garonne River – the largest water mirror in the world. One of the things that [...]
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