Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
The idea of a ghost town has always enthralled me. There’s something about the emptiness and the weird relationship with time that fires my imagination. You don’t get the usual modernisation and general change that comes with the forward progress of time but it’s not quite like travelling back in time because of the decay [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
London, UK; May 2009 / 19th century Discovered – a rare colour photograph of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Orangery in Kensington Gardens in London. Since colour photography didn’t exist in the Victorian era, this clearly proves the existence of time travel. Maybe the Doctor and his TARDIS had something to do with [...]
This gem of a video is from the British Film Institute but came my way via my friend Joanna Moncrieff on Facebook. Jo is a qualified tour guide in London and has a blog Westminster Walking. The video shows London in 1927 – in colour! Lots of familiar landmarks like Westminster and Buckingham Palace and [...]
This is the second in a series of four posts about Star Wars in Tunisia. Please click here to read last week’s installment on Jedi cloaks. Djerba (or Jerba) an island in the Mediterranean Sea off the Tunisian Mainland claims to be the “land of the lotus eaters” of Homerian fame. It is popular as [...]
This is the first in a series of four posts on Star Wars in Tunisia. In 2006 we were living in London and looking for somewhere to spend our Christmas holiday.We chose Tunisia for several reasons. Firstly, it was cheaper than Sicily, our first choice. Secondly, Tunisia offered an intriguing mix of winter sun, Roman [...]
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 [...]
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