Photo Friday: Cable car in Barcelona

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 [...]

Photo Friday: Amish road sign in New York

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 [...]

Chocolate martini at Ayza in Manhattan

Cocktails and chocolate in Midtown Manhattan. When I planned my trip to New York, I genuinely thought eight days would be enough time. After all, it wasn’t like I was visiting the city for the first time. I figured the TBEX travel bloggers conference would take two days, so that would leave six days to [...]

Behind the scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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 – [...]

Photo Friday: Rainbow bus in Golden Gate Park

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 [...]

Photo Friday: Guy with gas-mask bong in San Francisco

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 [...]

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: Time machine – Childhood holiday to Fiji

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 [...]

Photo Friday: Hula hoop buskers at San Francisco Ferry Building

San Francisco; March 2010 The setting was the Saturday farmers’ market at the San Francisco Ferry Building in early spring. The sun was shining and the stalls were selling asparagus, strawberries and spring flowers – branches of pink blossoms and bunches of fragrant narcissus. Around the corner by the water, I saw these buskers – [...]

Swimming pools at Hearst Castle – The Roman Pool

The second of two posts focusing on the swimming pools at Hearst Castle. If I were told I could swim in just one of the two beautiful pools at Hearst Castle, it would be a really difficult choice. The Neptune Pool is the most famous of the two and with its marble columns and scenic [...]

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