Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
I’m en route to New York City for TBEX, the Travel Blog Exchange conference. Through the miracle of Virgin America’s in-flight wifi, I’m writing this from thousands of feet up in the air. Pam at Nerd’s Eye View has a Q&A for travel bloggers going to TBEX. Some people are responding in the comments but [...]
San Francisco; June 2010 Colourful bus parked on John F. Kennedy Drive in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on a warm summer’s day. I think the people on the front are cleaning the windscreen, but I’m not sure. What does it look like to you? The bus looks very Northern California to me – very [...]
I’ve just got back from a lunch at Waterbar on Embarcadero in San Francisco with six other bloggers. We were hosted by Patrice Lamothe of a new social media company called Pearltrees. I greatly enjoyed the lunch and found the Pearltrees concept very interesting. Waterbar I eat out a lot but I rarely write about [...]
A collection of links about New York City and Long Island. It isn’t long to go before a host of travel bloggers is due to descend on New York City for the TBEX conference. Thanks to the generosity of my readers, I’ll be among them. After spending some time in the city, I’m heading to [...]
San Francisco really turned on the summer sunshine this weekend – I think the city is trying to convince me not to leave! I won’t be fooled – I know the summer fog is hiding somewhere. It’s been a fantastic weekend, crammed with fun things. Yesterday was especially full. At lunch time we headed to [...]
San Francisco; September 2009 The great thing about city life is the unexpected. You certainly meet all types, especially in San Francisco. I was greatly entertained by this unexpected encounter, on a bus heading downtown from Golden Gate Park last September. I had taken my friend Jules, who was staying with us for a few [...]
Travel around the world with food, from gelato in Rome to coffee in Hanoi. Food in Europe Italy. David Lebovitz trades Paris for Rome and tries to find out how much gelato he can eat in a day. Spain. Michelle Rowe from The Australian takes a gastronomical tour of Madrid. France. These days it’s easy [...]
A decadent chocolate-caramel dessert for impressing guests As a I cook I’m usually drawn to the simple and I rarely make something that requires multiple steps. So this tart was a departure for me, since it involved blind-baking pastry, making caramel, making chocolate ganache, assembling it all before the chocolate and caramel set, and piping [...]
We’ve found a place to live! As I mentioned previously, we are leaving San Francisco to move closer to work opportunities in Silicon Valley. For me the most stressful part of moving house is the overlapping time between giving notice on the old home and finding a new place to live. Unfortunately that’s pretty much [...]
Hearst castle is not the only landmark named for press baron William Randolph Hearst in San Simeon, California. Hearst Castle sits atop the so-called Enchanted Hill. At the bottom of the hill, on the other side of Highway 1, is San Simeon State Park and the William Randolph Hearst Beach. In the above photo, taken [...]
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