Posts/Entries
All posts/entries, for now, from over two decades of global travel. And a few colourful tags, too.
Louvre Palace, Paris, France
Palais du Louvre (Louvre Palace), which houses the giant collection of the Louvre Museum, cuts a grand Classical swathe right through the centre of the French capital of Paris, its stately ranks of carved pilasters, arches and pediments stretching west along the right...
D-Day Beaches, Normandy, France
The rural coastal Normandy countryside is an area of France famous as the land of Camembert (rich, soft, creamy cheese), Calvados (dry apple brandy), cider, seafood, and an area whose butter & cream based cuisine boasts a proud disdain for most things nouvelle....
American War Cemetery, Normandy, France
By the summer of 1944, some 5 years after the outbreak of World War II, Hitler had a firm grip on the European continent, much to the ire of the English, French, Americans and Canadians (The Allies), most of whom were taking refuge across the English Channel in...
Caen, Normandy, France
Caen is the capital and largest city of Basse Normandie, one of the 26 regions of France. It's the city that nine hundred years ago was the favoured residence of William the Conqueror. He liked it so much that he made the city the capital of Northern Normandy before...
Niagara Falls, Canada
Niagara Falls is the collective name for three waterfalls that straddle the international border between Canada and the United States or, more specifically, between the Canadian province of Ontario and the US state of New York. Spanning the Niagara River between...
LookOut, CN Tower, Toronto, Canada
I had in the past pointed a camera up from street level at the iconic CN Tower in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. But today I went one better, pointing my camera down over Toronto from the CN Tower's ingeniously named LookOut viewing deck....
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Kingston, Canada'a first capital city, is located on the north east shore of Lake Ontario. It's one of Canada's most charming and best-preserved towns. Popular with retirees and known as the Limestone City for its distinctive 19th-century buildings made of local grey...
Prague, Czech Republic (2006)
The golden, mystical medieval Central European gem of cobbled streets, riverside parks, & stunningly wonderful architecture.
Charles Bridge, Prague, Czech Republic
Sitting right slap-bang in the centre of mainland Europe (meaning it's hot, hot, hot in summer & downright freezing in winter), Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, has a unique charm that draws tons and tons of tourists each year. Guidebooks wax lyrical...
Auschwitz / Birkenau Concentration Camp, Poland
A pictorial look at the chilling Auschwitz / Birkenau Concentration Camp in Poland, the site of humankind’;s most extensive experiment in genocide.
Kraków, Poland
Kraków is Poland's most cosmopolitan and best preserved city. It survived World War II unscathed, which is miraculous considering the destruction that befell the rest of Poland. The city boasts a wealth of churches, baroque architecture and of course a medieval Old...
Market Square, Kraków, Poland
The Eastern European country of Poland was largely used as a battleground during World War II when the majority of its cities were reduced to ruin. The only exception to this is Kraków, the country's cosmopolitan second city & definitely its best preserved one -...
Warsaw, Poland
Arriving this morning in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, off the overnight bus from Vilnius in Lithuania was interesting. It was 7 a.m. and still pitch dark in the shady area of the city's outskirts I found myself. Nowhere seemed open, only the bus station's smoky...
Old Town, Warsaw, Poland
The Eastern European city of Warsaw, the capital of Poland, is not a city renowned for tourism. For the most part it's a vast, drab place with long streets full of uninspiring communist-era grey & boxy concrete (blame the Soviets). But it does have one gem up its...