Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
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 [...]
Read the article to learn more about San Francisco’s historic F-line streetcars. This is day 27 of NaBloPoMo – National Blog Posting Month. I am publishing 30 posts in 30 days for the month of November. Previous NaBloPoMo posts: November 1 | David Austin roses at Carriageworks, Sydney November 2 | Books in Krakow, Poland November 3 | Rhyolite, [...]
Chic, cosmopolitan and with a relaxed, happy-go-lucky vibe, San Francisco has much to offer visitors, as Caitlin Fitzsimmons discovers. When gold fever struck in 1849, San Francisco was transformed from provincial shanty town to thriving multicultural city. As much an idea as a place, it has seduced fortune seekers ever since – from the wide-eyed [...]
Airship Ventures is giving away a flight for two aboard its zeppelin Eureka, as part of its sponsorship with Passports with Purpose. For your chance to win, buy a $10 raffle ticket at passportswithpurpose.com/donate before midnight (US West Coast time) on December 13. The funds will be used to construct a village in India for [...]
Since moving here last year, I have been seduced by the beauty of San Francisco and the California coast. The sweeping red arches of the Golden Gate Bridge never fail to move me and I fell in love with the sparkling waters and wild cliffs of the coast on my Highway 1 road trip last [...]
After leaving the goat dairy in Pescadero, we headed back to the car with our purchases. Before setting off we had a little nibble of the artichoke bread with the fromage blanc. We didn’t eat much, having only recently had lunch, but wanted to try the bread while it was still warm. It was just [...]
Saturday was a day of spontaneity and serendipity. I haven’t had so much fun for ages! My husband and I decided to drive to Pescadero for lunch at Duartes Tavern. We’d been there once before on our Highway 1 road trip with my in-laws last year. Pescadero struck me as a charming town but we [...]
If you have even a passing acquaintance with San Francisco, it’s worth making this trip. You don’t have to leave your chair – just sit back and let this video transport you back in time to Market Street in April 1906, shortly before the Great Earthquake and Fire. The film seems to have been shot [...]
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 [...]
I’ve just got back from a lunch at Waterbar on Embarcadero in San Francisco with six other bloggers. We were hosted by Patrice Lamothe of a new social media company called Pearltrees. I greatly enjoyed the lunch and found the Pearltrees concept very interesting. Waterbar I eat out a lot but I rarely write about [...]
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