Postcards from the world of athousandflights.com - Travel, photography, fun!
She glides past Fort Denison, a colonial fort built on the punishment rock the convicts called Pinchgut, and I fire off a shot, holding my breath. Click on the image to make it bigger (or head over to my Flickr page). It’s not too bad, and I can even read her name: Diamond Princess.
““Every Iranian I’ve met wants to drink alcohol, every couple I’ve met here want to hold hands in public, and every Iranian woman I’ve met wants to ditch hijab. So why not just, you know, do it?”
What?” asked our guide, “And give the government an excuse to crack down again?””
Most travel blogs are boring and dull. You wouldn't think so, the way they talk about exotic places to visit on the trip of a lifetime, but there it is: most travel bloggers write exactly the same material, take exactly the same photographs and are about as exciting as a commuter train.
This one isn't.
Brittany of Leaving Gringolandia - a blogger based in Colombia, of all places - writes about the moment that changed her blogging career.
Lifting her well above the competition, in my opinion.
“Edinburgh is a city close to my heart. Perhaps my Scots ancestry has something to do with that, but Scotland’s ancient capital stands proud in delighting tourists and locals alike. The Royal Mile, with its gradual ascent to the craggy Castle, and its mediaeval warren of lanes and closes, invites exploration. The New Town – construction commenced 250 years ago – is elegance itself, full of grand shops, haughty restaurants, upmarket hotels.”
In years to come, we’ll probably laugh when we look back at these Trumpian days, when people believed, that if they just believed hard enough, then black would be white.
The days of fake news and alternative facts, when what was written down in black and white could be denied, if one said it often enough and loud enough.
On that note, let us consider the facts of copyright law.
#copyright #veryhungrycaterpillar #idiocy
I'm not a religious person myself, but on my travels I have found the grand sacred places of the world to be nodes of tranquillity and majesty, places where the spirit soars and one might reflect on one's place in the cosmos. Ayasofya, Sagrada Familia, the Shah Mosque in Isfahan, Kinkaku-Ji Temple in Kyoto; all sublime and uplifting.
