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Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore; March 2009 “Millac Maid. Tastes like fresh milk. Long life skimmed milk with non milk fat.” Hmm… Do you think this is what Michael Pollan means when he talks about the difference between food and edible food-like substances? I wonder what the non milk fat is? Vegetable oil, [...]
Travel article for Australian Women’s Health on a kayaking trip to Spitsbergen in the High Arctic in 2006. By Caitlin Fitzsimmons The seal reclined on the ice floe, its stumpy flippers looking slightly ridiculous against its tubby body. We stopped paddling and let the kayaks glide in silence for a closer look. The seal lifted [...]
I am sitting in the living room of my dad’s house in the Southern Highlands south of Sydney, looking out over rolling green valleys and distant blue hills. A thunderstorm has just broken a cloudless blue day, and now there is an enormous rainbow arching across the horizon. All the colours are correct and present [...]
Travel blogging comes of age – the Bloggies are the icing on an incredible year. What a difference a year makes! This time last year I was bemoaning the fact that there were no travel blogs in the finals of the 2008 Bloggies compared with 11 food blogs. I suggested that travel bloggers needed to [...]
Congratulations to all the food blogs nominated for the 2009 Bloggies and particularly the winners. Drum roll… Chocolate and Zucchini won Best European Weblog. Everybody Likes Sandwiches won Best Canadian Weblog. Cake Wrecks won Best Food Weblog, Best Writing of a Weblog and Best New Weblog. Wow, what a haul! Foodie at Fifteen won Best [...]
A bumper crop of inspirational travel links from the blogosphere. I really enjoyed this month’s round-up. Intelligent Travel is running a series on readers’ guides to their favourite cities. In this post, Londoner Emma Torry gives us a personal tour of Hong Kong, from her top dim sum haunts to her favourite natural beauty spots. [...]
Copenhagen, Denmark; August 2006 The Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen Harbour is one of Denmark’s most famous landmarks. As a result she usually attracts a crowd of adoring onlookers, not unlike the Mona Lisa in the Louvre in Paris. There’s none of this business of admiring her from afar either – one by one or [...]
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