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NSW Southern Highlands; January 2006 This stunning flower will trade beauty for taste as it turns into a wrinkly purple-brown passion fruit. Cut it open – or tear it open with your teeth – and devour the pulpy orange and black seeds inside. Awesome on their own, or as a topping on ice cream or [...]
Copenhagen, Denmark; August 2006 Nyhavn or New Haven is one of the most picturesque parts of Copenhagen. The waterfront is lined with restaurants, cafés and bars and you can sit outside and enjoy a bite to eat or a drink. The classic Danish open sandwich – or smørrebrød – is a popular choice, or a [...]
A social marketing success story as Tourism Queensland deliberates over the top 50. You know that fabulous job on Hamilton Island on the Great Barrier Reef? I wrote about my application here on Roaming Tales the other week and about the job and the reef more generally on EcoSalon. I’ve also been tweeting about it [...]
London; June 2007 My sister Emma at age five by the Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens, London. Emma playing on the pirate ship in the Peter Pan Playground in Kensington Gardens. One of the best things about London are its wonderful parks. They are fantastic for adults and children alike, and beautiful in all [...]
London, UK; June 2007 If a map of the United Kingdom marks a certain area as ‘forest’, it pays to check what is meant by that. There may not actually be any trees. In medieval times, the word ‘forest’ was used to denote deer hunting grounds. The Caledonian forest in Scotland, for example, is mostly [...]
A blog carnival of posts about cities. I’m delighted to be hosting the Carnival of Cities on behalf of Sheila Scarborough of Family Travel Logue and I’m sorry for the delay in publication. We’ve had a great range of blog posts this week about cities and towns, mainly in the USA, but also Mexico, all [...]
`The heaviest snow since 1991 transforms the capital. Snow in London is a rare occasion, to be greeted with wonderment and awe, even when we’re talking about less than 1cm of the white stuff sprinkling the ground for a few hours. So imagine the excitement when we get the heaviest (some news outlets says ‘worst’ [...]
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