Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
This is a guest post by freelance travel writer Matthew Hawking. In the hit movie Mamma Mia!, Meryl Streep and Pierce Brosnan lit up the screen but the real star was the stunning land and seascape of the Greek Islands. The Abba-themed romp was filmed on Skopelos and Skiathos, but Greece has nearly 1400 islands [...]
I am a convert to eating buffalo. Oh my. This time last year I penned an article for EcoSalon about the environmental arguments for Americans to eat buffalo. The main point is that rearing buffalo promotes the restoration of native grasslands in the prairies of the American West. However, as I was living in Britain [...]
Fiji; 1987 K-K-K-K-K-Katmandu, I think that’s where I’m going to. If I ever get out of here, I’m going to Katmandu. When I was five years old, I heard this Bob Seger song and I took it into my head that I’d like to go to Kathmandu. I begged my mum to take me to [...]
We have been back in San Francisco for a week. My husband has started his new job and is liking it so far, apart from the mammoth commute. I’m discussing an interesting work opportunity myself, but it’s early days. I’ve also started an advanced fiction writing workshop with Linda Watanabe McFerrin, who I first met [...]
San Francisco; March 2010 The setting was the Saturday farmers’ market at the San Francisco Ferry Building in early spring. The sun was shining and the stalls were selling asparagus, strawberries and spring flowers – branches of pink blossoms and bunches of fragrant narcissus. Around the corner by the water, I saw these buskers – [...]
The second of two posts focusing on the swimming pools at Hearst Castle. If I were told I could swim in just one of the two beautiful pools at Hearst Castle, it would be a really difficult choice. The Neptune Pool is the most famous of the two and with its marble columns and scenic [...]
The first of two posts focusing on the gorgeous pools at Hearst Castle at San Simeon on California’s Highway 1. My very favourite thing about Hearst Castle was its swimming pools. There are two of them and they are both exquisite. They are delightful just to look at but I was itching to swim. Throughout [...]
Willliam Randolph Hearst was inspired to build Hearst Castle after travelling to Europe. Yet his tribute to the Old World is quintessentially American. Hearst Castle at San Simeon was one of the highlights of our trip down California’s Highway 1. But I suspect the fact I lived in Europe for five years made it impossible [...]
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