Snoopy Country: Santa Rosa, California

Alison and Linus

A visit to the Charles M. Schulz Museum, Snoopy’s Home Ice and more. My vintage red leather skates looked like something Snoopy might take for a twirl but my moves on the ice were not nearly as graceful. The world’s favourite beagle is a champion figure skater and hockey player; I counted it as a [...]

Cajun food in Staten Island – yes, really

The St George Parish Grill and Staten Island Museum. When I decided to visit all five boroughs of New York City on my recent trip, I didn’t have much of a plan for Staten Island. I knew I’d be staying in Brooklyn and making regular trips to Manhattan. The Bronx had the zoo and the [...]

Photo Friday: The British Museum with children and the Parthenon Marbles debate

London, UK; July 2007 This is my sister Emma riding on my shoulders at the British Museum in summer 2007. She was five at the time and is now a big girl of seven and a half. We are standing in front of the Parthenon Marbles (also known as the Elgin Marbles) and our dad [...]

Star Wars in Tunisia: Sidi Jmour or Ben Kenobi’s house

This is the second in a series of four posts about Star Wars in Tunisia. Please click here to read last week’s installment on Jedi cloaks. Djerba (or Jerba) an island in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian Mainland claims to be the “land of the lotus eaters” of Homerian fame. It is popular as [...]

Stone-age Orkney: Hobbit homes in the village of Skara Brae

See where the real-life Flintstones lived at the 5,000-year-old village of Skara Brae in the third and final post on stone-age Orkney. Plus, I am giving away two copies of the DVD Standing with Stones – for details on how to enter, please see the end of the post. When the village of Skara Brae [...]

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