Best of the Web: A carnival of travel and food

Travel around the world with food, from gelato in Rome to coffee in Hanoi. Food in Europe Italy. David Lebovitz trades Paris for Rome and tries to find out how much gelato he can eat in a day. Spain. Michelle Rowe from The Australian takes a gastronomical tour of Madrid. France. These days it’s easy [...]

Photo Friday: Trafalgar Square with pigeons in 1990s London

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 [...]

Photo Friday: Gandhi in San Francisco

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 [...]

Photo Friday: Travel back in time to Victorian England

London, UK; May 2009 / 19th century Discovered – a rare colour photograph of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Orangery in Kensington Gardens in London. Since colour photography didn’t exist in the Victorian era, this clearly proves the existence of time travel. Maybe the Doctor and his TARDIS had something to do with [...]

Best of the Web: Carnival of travel and art

Last week the theme was food and travel, this week I have focused on art. Exhibitions and museums Sydney. Dee at Babel at Bedlam says the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney is “venerable yet hip”. I know it well – it’s certainly a great place to check out Australian art and the main galleries [...]

Best of the Web: A carnival of food and travel

Welcome to the first installment of my new-style Best of the Web feature. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback when I ran my poll. I’ve decided to keep the format going as an occasional feature but to focus on themes. This first one is on the intersection of food and travel – something I suspect [...]

My 3 Best Kept Travel Secrets

Steven at the Latin American travel blog Travelojos has nominated me to share three travel secrets in the Trip Base blog tag. I like the idea of highlighting obscure places. 1. Dougga, Tunisia Dougga in Tunisia gives Ephesus in Turkey a run for its money when it comes to impressive Roman ruins. It is not [...]

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 [...]

Travel back in time to 1920s London

This gem of a video is from the British Film Institute but came my way via my friend Joanna Moncrieff on Facebook. Jo is a qualified tour guide in London and has a blog Westminster Walking. The video shows London in 1927 – in colour! Lots of familiar landmarks like Westminster and Buckingham Palace and [...]

Photo Friday: Giant water lily pads at Kew Gardens

Kew, London; May 2008 When I was seven my third-grade teacher gave us our very first assignment. We could do a project on any topic we wanted. I chose flowers. I liked flowers and still do but the deciding factor was my aunt Frances who promised she would help me do one on flowers. She [...]

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