Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Want to experience Rome as the ancient Romans did? Google Earth offers the closest possible thing – a virtual tour of ancient Rome. With global environmental concerns at an all time high and a global economy in collapse, there are plenty of good reasons for the rise of virtual travel. It’s not the same as [...]
Spanish and Italian might sound like an unlikely hybrid but it works beautifully at this restaurant in Goodge Street, London. I had lunch with an industry contact today. His secretary asked me to choose the location since he was away when she was making the arrangements. I never like to do this when I’m the [...]
A guest post on sleep deprivation on the long journey from San Francisco to Rome. This is a guest post from freelance writer and tour escort Angela K. Nickerson. Her first book, A Journey into Michelangelo’s Rome (Roaring Forties Press, 2008) combines her great passions – travel, art, history, and Italy – in one volume. [...]
In the final week of the Leiths Confident Cooking Course, we tackled homemade pasta and amaretti chocolate truffles Tortellini of ricotta, lemon, parmesan and sage butter I’ve wanted to make homemade pasta for years, but I don’t have a pasta maker and I’ve not felt confident I could roll out the pasta by hand. Or [...]
The New York Times has published a list of 53 hot destinations for 2008. I have been to the following places on the list: Laos, Tunisia, Prague, Tuscany, Oslo, Lombok, San Francisco, Detroit, Kilimanjaro, London, Las Vegas, New York. There is only one Australian destination on the list – the Barossa Valley – and I [...]
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