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Category Archives: Travel
Pinot Noir: Otago’s New Gold Rush
For two weeks we have been rambling through New Zealand’s south island, zigzagging from Christchurch to Queenstown, back to Dunedin and down through the Catlins to Invercargill, west to Lake Manapouri and Milford Sound, north to Cromwell and over to … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, New Zealand, Travel
Tagged Beetlejuice, blanc et noir, Blondie, Chard Farm, Clyde Dam, Cromwell, Finla Mor, Gewürztraminer, Judge & Jury, Kawarau Gorge, Lake Dunstan, New Zealnd, Otago, Pinot Noir, South Island, Wooing Tree
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Alex Down the Hobbit-Hole
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down … Continue reading
Posted in New Zealand, Travel
Tagged Bag End, Bilbo Baggins, Hobbiton, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Matamata, New Zealand, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit, The Shire
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“More is More & Less is a Bore”
This theory for interior design also applies to the use of chilli in Bali. And if there isn’t enough chilli in the dish already, there is always sambal. This Indonesian red hot chilli relish will ensure that food in Bali … Continue reading
A Day in Bali
Bali. An island of contradictions and contrasts. Modern technology and ancient crafts. Modern tourism and ancient rice fields. Modern shopping malls and ancient temples. Spicy food and soft smiles. Up in Ubud for the Writers & Readers Festival, I have … Continue reading
Posted in Indonesia, Local Culture, Travel
Tagged Bali, Banyan trees, frangipani, rice paddy, temple, Ubud, Writers & Readers Festival
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Recapping on Canada
I realize I have already told you a lot about our Canadian trip, but while presenting a talk to the Lyceum Club about our trip, I realized how much I had left out, and for my own benefit,at least, will … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Travel
Tagged Athabasca Glacier, Banff, British Columbia, Canada, Icefields Parkway, Jasper National Park, Manitoba, Montreal, Nanaimo, Okanagan Valley, Ontario, Portage la Prairie, Quebec, Regina, Saskachewan, Toronto, TRans Canadian Highway, Vancouver, Vancouver Island, Victorian, Winnipeg
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Into the West…
Vancouver Island. An island off the south coast of British Columbia that is 456 km long and 100 km across at its widest point. The population of Vthe island is around 90,000, half of whom live in Greater Victoria on … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Food & Wine, Travel
Tagged California sealions, Canada, Cathedral Grove, Florencia Bay, Humpback Whales, Lake Cowichan, Nanaimo, orcas, Roy Henry Vickers, Salish Sea, sea otters, Steller sealions, Tofino, Vancouver Island, Victoria
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To Be Seen, To Be Heard: Art as Action
Colonialism is not a beautiful picture sometimes. When we talk about Native people, we’re wards of the Crown, we are under separate citizenship. It’s a polite way of saying you’re a slave to colonialism. It’s still “us and them.” ~ … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Local Culture, Travel
Tagged Bill Reid, British Columbia, Canada, colonization, dispossession, Eric Robertson, First Nations, indigenous, Inuit, Métis, Museum of Anthropology, potlatch, totem pole, UBC, Vancouver
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…Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
The road from Toronto to Jasper goes on forever, and mostly in a straight line. It makes you believe in the possibility of a flat earth, and I find myself watching the horizon fearfully In case we should tumble off … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Local Culture, Travel
Tagged Canada, Manitoba, Portage la Prairie, Regina, Saskatchewan, WAG-Qaumajuq, Winnipeg
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A Walled Garden and a Copper Pig
I have been waxing lyrical about the National Trust for the past few months, as we made plans to travel through the UK. The National Trust – in case you haven’t heard me mention it before – is a charity … Continue reading
Posted in England, History, Travel
Tagged Cambridgeshire, Hardwicke Rawnsley, medlars, National Trust, Octavia Hill, Oxford Sandy & Black, Robert Hunter, Shire horses, Wimpole EState
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Lion City
The merlion is a mythical creature with the head of a lion and the body of a fish. It became the logo for the Singapore tourism board in 1966. Singapore – Singapura means ‘lion city’ in Malay, hence the lion … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Singapore, Travel
Tagged All Things Delicious, Blue Jazz, Gardens by the Bay, merlion, Pashas, Saint Gregory the Illuminator, Sinapore, St Andrew's CAthedral
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