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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Have you ever read the 1940s classic The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford, or the sequel Love in a Cold Climate? The books are largely autobiographical so fans of the book may be interested in seeing the house where Nancy and her sisters lived in their childhood. This is Batsford House in the Cotswolds, [...]
We did several hikes in Death Valley, but my favourite by far was Golden Canyon. We started at the Zabriskie Point look-out with stunning views over the canyon and down towards the Badwater salt flats. There were three options – we could hang out at the lookout and then take the bus to the other end [...]
I feel absolutely shattered tonight, having just returned from a trip to Canberra with my husband and the babies. We went to help celebrate my husband’s aunt’s 70th birthday and to catch up with her and various cousins. I’m glad we went – we all had a good time, especially introducing the twins to their [...]
If you are in Sydney and have the opportunity before next Saturday then get ye to Paddington to see the Murray Fredericks’ Salt exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography. It is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Fredericks camped solo for weeks on end at Lake Eyre, the vast salt [...]
The idea of a ghost town has always enthralled me. There’s something about the emptiness and the weird relationship with time that fires my imagination. You don’t get the usual modernisation and general change that comes with the forward progress of time but it’s not quite like travelling back in time because of the decay [...]
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