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 [...]

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 [...]

Stone-age Orkney: Hobbit homes in the village of Skara Brae

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 [...]

Best of the Web – Roaming Tales: Travel links for 31 August

Collating these links collections takes up quite a lot of time but I also enjoy it as there is so much great travel content out there. In this week’s edition we have everything from the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo to expensive farm stays in upstate New York. I hope you enjoy it! Part of the [...]

Best of the Web – Roaming Tales: Travel links for 17 August

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 [...]

Best of the web: Travel inspiration

A bumper crop of inspirational travel links from the blogosphere. I really enjoyed this month’s round-up. Intelligent Travel is running a series on readers’ guides to their favourite cities. In this post, Londoner Emma Torry gives us a personal tour of Hong Kong, from her top dim sum haunts to her favourite natural beauty spots. [...]

London inspiration list

My blueprint to be a tourist in my own city. Since one of my travel resolutions for 2009 is to be a tourist in my own city and make the most of what London has to offer, I thought I should make a list of things to do. I’ve been here four and a half [...]

Travel back in time to ancient Babylon

British Museum exhibition on Babylon: Myth and Reality. In many ways Babylon is more an idea than a real place. There were other city states in Mesopotamia but you don’t see Sumer as a major preoccupation of art through the centuries. So what does Babylon have that the others don’t? The answer is easy of [...]

Photo Friday: Good and evil at Goree Island

Dakar, Senegal; May 2007 Goree Island lies just off the coast of Dakar, the Senegalese capital. Today it’s a happy and mellow place where people hang out on the beach, play soccer in the dusty town square and fish from wooden boats from the warm waters of the tropical Atlantic. A few people make their [...]

Photo Friday: Chocolate bull fighting

Barcelona, Spain; October 2008 You can’t get more classically Spanish than bull fighting but as an animal lover it’s not particularly appealing to me. Stumbling across this chocolate sculpture of bull fighting at the Chocolate Museum in Barcelona was as close as I got to witnessing the real thing during my holiday in Spain, and [...]

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