Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
King’s Cross, London; December 2008 There are many ways the Old World is different to the New and it’s not all about buildings and antiques. One of the less obvious ways is the canals. Sure you get canals in the New World but not to this extent. England is literally criss-crossed with canals, most of [...]
We all think we know what Chinese food is but the truth is that it’s incredibly diverse. The most common style of Chinese cuisine in the West is Cantonese but China is an enormous country and even within the majority Han population, there is vast regional variation in the cuisine. When you take into account [...]
The countries I’ve been to are marked in red. The map doesn’t differentiate but I’ve actually lived in Australia, the UK, the US, Costa Rica, Guyana and Germany. visited 37 states (16.4%) Create your own visited map of The World or Like this? try: Mapped Web This is the map of the world with the [...]
I’ve just finished a special meal for one. I went to Borough Market today and stocked up on goodies to help keep myself cheerful during the separation. My husband is vegetarian, so it’s also a chance to indulge my inner omnivore (though admittedly I do eat meat and fish when he’s here as well). I [...]
For those of you who don’t already know, we’re moving out of London. My husband was offered a transfer to San Francisco by his company. Basically we thought, ‘why ever not?’ It’s a great opportunity professionally, San Francisco sounds like a wonderful place to live, it’s a lot closer to our home town of Sydney, [...]
Detroit, USA; October 2005 These days Detroit is often put forward as the poster child of urban decline, but it wasn’t always this way. Back in the days of Motor City, it was quite the place to be. Although it’s thought of as an industrial city, the wealth from the car industry helped support a [...]
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