Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
In 2008 I went to Cambodia with photographer Peter Garmusch to write this story on traditional Khmer silk and to do preliminary research on a potential story about restoration work on the Angkor ruins. One of the strangest things we saw was a floating village near Siem Reap. We arrived too late in the day [...]
My mother lives on the north coast of New South Wales so we don’t see her quite as much as we would like. At least we see more of her than we would if we were living in London or San Francisco! Mum came and stayed with us last week. The twins weren’t too sure [...]
Do you remember the photo of that delectable dessert in my post about the Sunshine Coast hinterland? I bought it from the Freestyle Escape stall at the Real Food Festival in Maleny. Guess what? You could win a cookery class at Freestyle Escape and raise money to build libraries in Zambia at the same time! It’s [...]
I have hosted accommodation prizes for Passports with Purpose for the past two years running. In 2009 I hosted two Caribbean resort prizes – Coconut Bay in St Lucia and Tranquility Bay in Belize – and in 2010 I worked with the Fairmont Olympic in Seattle. They were all fantastic sponsors and the prizes sounded [...]
Passports with Purpose has rolled around again and I’m proud to be a participating blogger for the fourth year in a row. I’m thrilled about the prizes I have secured – just one more day before the big reveal! I will give you some clues… One is a travel prize based in northern California and, [...]
The prizes in Passports with Purpose always sound fabulous but do they live up to the hype? Julie Schwietert Collazo has penned a guest post about her stay at Tranquility Bay in Belize. Julie was the beneficiary of the accommodation prize donated by the resort in the 2009 Passports with Purpose, which raised money to build [...]
View the interactive photo gallery The green-and-gold tram trundled down the road, a small Australian flag hanging out the driver’s window. I stared in amazement, my morning coffee momentarily forgotten. As it rumbled past, I could see the words “Melbourne, Victoria, Australia” emblazoned on the side. But I was half a world away, at an [...]
Read the article to learn more about San Francisco’s historic F-line streetcars. This is day 27 of NaBloPoMo – National Blog Posting Month. I am publishing 30 posts in 30 days for the month of November. Previous NaBloPoMo posts: November 1 | David Austin roses at Carriageworks, Sydney November 2 | Books in Krakow, Poland November 3 | Rhyolite, [...]
Call me a food geek but I really enjoy visiting local farmers markets when I’m on holiday. It feel I am getting to know a place when I see what types of produce are grown and made nearby. It’s also fascinating to see what rules the market goes by. Some markets are citified foodie destinations [...]
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