Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Tell the United States Congress to pass the Clean Cruise Ship Act. Last week I wrote about the environmental damage of the cruise industry. Wherever we stand on cruises, hopefully we all agree that they should be as environmentally friendly as possible. Right now, that is far from true. The cruise industry is largely unregulated [...]
This post is my contribution to Blog Action Day, which this year is focusing on climate change. We’ve heard it all before. Air travel is evil. If your vacation involves a plane then you are burning the planet. While this may be somewhat of an exaggeration, it’s quite true that aviation is one of the [...]
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 [...]
Hartz Mountains National Park, Tasmania; February 2007 In February 2007, I visited my friend Katrina in Hobart, Tasmania. She was madly studying for a medical exam but she managed to take a day off to play with me and we headed up to hike in Hartz Mountains National Park. Tasmania is one of my favourite [...]
I can’t believe August is nearly over already! Ever since I arrived in San Francisco, I’ve been devouring summer fruits, especially white nectarines and peaches. I’ll be sad when peach season is over, but I have a cunning plan to extend it a little further. I bought an entire box of organic white peaches for [...]
Inveraray, Scotland; June 2009 The population density of the United Kingdom is one of the highest in the world – there are 61 million people packed into a rather small island. You wouldn’t know it in the hills of Scotland. About five out of six people in Britain live in England and within England, the [...]
News just in… Africa’s Eden, the eco-tourism project in Loango National Park in Gabon, is closed due to a dispute between the Gabonese government and the tourism operator / regional airline. The press release from Africa’s Eden says Loango Lodge will be closed to international visitors until at least 20 September this year. Catherine Eviter, [...]
Today brings another bumper collection of links to great travel content on the web. I hope you enjoy it – let me know in the comments. If I link to you below, please pay it forward and give link love to someone else. Debates, trends & reflections Island caretaker. I was less than complimentary in [...]
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