Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
Hampstead Heath, London; Summer 2005 An art installation in Hampstead Heath in London in the summer of 2005. I love this – it really plays to the idea of living in a magical world. I feel like we are all miniature people, like Borrowers or Lilliputtians, and a giant is going to come along any [...]
San Diego, California; January 2010 Before I saw these paddlers in San Diego, I thought stand-up was a comedy genre not a sport. I’ve since learned that stand-up kayaking is all the rage in paddling circles. Apparently the sport started in Hawaii and is favoured by anglers because of the better manouevrability when casting a [...]
North Coast of NSW, Australia; August 2006 My mother lives in the Australian bush on a property on the North Coast of New South Wales, about half way between Sydney and Brisbane. She is a wildlife rescue volunteer and as a result often takes care of baby wallabies. Wallabies are related to kangaroos but smaller [...]
Monterey, California; September 2009 This time last year, my husband and I took a road trip with his parents south as San Francisco to places like Hearst Castle and Big Sur. We stayed the first night in Monterey, arriving just in time to see the sunset over the bay. I imagine the water was probably [...]
Barcelona, Spain; September 2007 Cable car across the harbour from the Barceloneta beach area to Montjuic Park. It was a lovely sunny afternoon and we had clear views out to the ocean in one direction and back towards La Sagrada Familia cathedral in the other. We had to queue for a while but the views [...]
Western New York; July 2010 Now this is about as far as you can get from Manhattan and still be in New York! You could call it the opposite of Sex and the City. After my trip to New York City in June I visited a little-known part of New York State – the Cassadaga [...]
San Francisco; June 2010 Colourful bus parked on John F. Kennedy Drive in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on a warm summer’s day. I think the people on the front are cleaning the windscreen, but I’m not sure. What does it look like to you? The bus looks very Northern California to me – very [...]
San Francisco; September 2009 The great thing about city life is the unexpected. You certainly meet all types, especially in San Francisco. I was greatly entertained by this unexpected encounter, on a bus heading downtown from Golden Gate Park last September. I had taken my friend Jules, who was staying with us for a few [...]
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 [...]
Fiji; 1987 K-K-K-K-K-Katmandu, I think that’s where I’m going to. If I ever get out of here, I’m going to Katmandu. When I was five years old, I heard this Bob Seger song and I took it into my head that I’d like to go to Kathmandu. I begged my mum to take me to [...]
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