Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
This post is dedicated to Michelle, who is taking her 13-year-old daughter and 11 12-year-old niece to Paris this northern summer. They will have breakfast at a hotel at St Pancras station in London, before hopping on the Eurostar and arriving in the heart of Paris two hours later. What lucky girls, all three of [...]
View the interactive photo gallery The green-and-gold tram trundled down the road, a small Australian flag hanging out the driver’s window. I stared in amazement, my morning coffee momentarily forgotten. As it rumbled past, I could see the words “Melbourne, Victoria, Australia” emblazoned on the side. But I was half a world away, at an [...]
A visit to the Charles M. Schulz Museum, Snoopy’s Home Ice and more. My vintage red leather skates looked like something Snoopy might take for a twirl but my moves on the ice were not nearly as graceful. The world’s favourite beagle is a champion figure skater and hockey player; I counted it as a [...]
A rare glimpse at how one of the world’s top museums does its restoration work on art and artifacts. On the Thursday before the TBEX travel blogging conference, I joined a small group of travel bloggers on a special tour with Context Travel. Context offers walking tours in a few cities around the world – [...]
The first of two posts focusing on the gorgeous pools at Hearst Castle at San Simeon on California’s Highway 1. My very favourite thing about Hearst Castle was its swimming pools. There are two of them and they are both exquisite. They are delightful just to look at but I was itching to swim. Throughout [...]
Willliam Randolph Hearst was inspired to build Hearst Castle after travelling to Europe. Yet his tribute to the Old World is quintessentially American. Hearst Castle at San Simeon was one of the highlights of our trip down California’s Highway 1. But I suspect the fact I lived in Europe for five years made it impossible [...]
Madrid, Spain; October 2008 I stumbled across his pair of oil paintings upstairs at the famous Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. It was quite a contrast immediately after perusing the rooms full of Spanish royal portraits, mainly by Velazquez. There was quite a striking family resemblance between fathers, sons, grandsons and brothers and also sisters [...]
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