Tasting Taiwan
Street vendor sets up his bicycle drawn food cart near a train station. There are so many places to eat in Taiwan that I wonder if anyone...
Visiting Taiwan's temples and shrines
Taiwan has a beautiful collection of temples, mainly Buddhist and Taoist, some being several hundred years old.
Feeding the birds
Rainbow lorikeet enjoys sunflower seeds in Australia. Feeding birds is a kind hearted thing to do in cold climates where they have...
Crossing Australia on the Ghan
We left Darwin on a misty morning. At 10 am on a Wednesday in February the Ghan pulled out of Darwin in Australia's tropical north and...
Resurrecting Christchurch
A Canterbury Museum special exhibition tells about the devastating 2010 and 2011 earthquakes. As you may recall, the city of...
Reflecting on another year of of travel
Green man sculpture at Lost Gardens of Heligan in Cornwall, England. Blessed thus far with good health in my retirement, I have seized...
Exploring Auckland
Auckland city centre from Torpedo Bay. I have just spent two most enjoyable weeks in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. The first time...
Building with stone
5000 year old kitchen cupboard at Skara Brae, Orkney, Scotland. For someone raised on the Canadian prairies where any structure over a...
Admiring old architecture in Riga
Likely the most photographed building in Riga. On my recent travels in several northern European countries I have been thrilled with the...
Embracing autumn in northern Europe
Many choices on an autumn day in Stockholm, Sweden. Â Since leaving the Netherlands on September 25th I have been in 5 other countries and du
