Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Will Peach is one of the site editors over at Gap Daemon, the gap year travel website for backpackers and young travellers. He has written a guest post for me on Christmas in London, which I know from experience is one of the best places to spend Christmas. Will has done a great job researching [...]
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, [...]
My mother-in-law rang my husband on Saturday to deliver this message: “Tell Caitlin the dress was beautiful but not as nice as hers.” I doubt very much that the new Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton as was, would be bothered by this highly biased declaration, but it made me smile. The royal wedding dress WAS [...]
Trafalgar Square, London; December 1998 After last week’s trip down memory lane to a childhood holiday in Fiji, here is another time travel edition of Photo Friday. This is Trafalgar Square in London in 1998, with the Canadian High Commission in the background. My mother was living in Cambridge at the time and I spent [...]
San Francisco; February 2010 This is a statue of Indian statesman Mahatma Gandhi behind the San Francisco Ferry Building. From this angle it looks like he is gazing out at the reflected sunset and full moon rising over the Bay Bridge. I took this with my new digital SLR and I’m particularly pleased with the [...]
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