Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
When I tell people I have been to Detroit, they are usually surprised. When I tell them I liked it and would recommend it to other travellers, they are usually even more surprised. For starters it’s in “Flyover Country” and is not somewhere foreigners would generally go. Secondly it’s a city known for industrial grit [...]
Manhattan, NY; June 2010 I can’t help myself – when I see a piano, I want to play with it. I say with because my rudimentary skills mean that I am not really playing the piano, just fooling around. I can peck out part of Beethoven’s Ode to Joy with my right hand and that’s [...]
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 [...]
My interview with world musician Youssou N’Dour at his home in Dakar, Senegal in May 2007. You have just come back from New York – what were you doing there? “I was invited by Time magazine. Every year they nominate the 100 most influential persons around the world, sometimes artistically or politically. I was there [...]
Before I went away, there were a few social events to keep me amused. I went to see Prince at the O2 (formerly the Millennium Dome) with Yahoo!. They have a corporate box and they were hosting a number of journalists. Grant, their corporate PR, is a fellow Aussie and he made sure that there [...]
I love Nouvelle Vague! Watch this awesome video clip from the polar bear song on their new album. Perhaps some clever clogs can tell me who they’re covering? As far as I know Nouvelle Vague only do covers but I could be wrong. Ich möchte ein Eisbär sein im kalten PolarDann müßte ich nicht mehr [...]
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