Xi’an – Home of the Terra Cotta Warriors
Best known as the home of the Terra Cotta Warriors, Xi’an is also remarkable for its strong Muslim influences due to its position at the start of the ancient Silk Road trading route. It...
Category: Destinations
Flight Mode
Apart from the many flights, both domestic and international, that I have had over the years in the standard big jets, be they Boeing 707s, 727s, 747s, 767s or Airbus A330s and A380s, I...
Top Spots for Food and Wine – Mornington Peninsula
A family birthday was the occasion for our drive, once again, to the Mornington Peninsula wine region, about an hour south of Melbourne. This region is known for producing high quality cool climate varieties,...
Fabulous Firenze
Firenze, or Florence, is the capital of Tuscany and to my mind, the cultural capital of Italy. Considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, it was a centre of medieval European trade and finance and...
The Picturesque Cinque Terre
The Cinque Terre on the Ligurian coast of Italy are a photographer’s delight. These five villages cling to narrow bays and steep hillsides between Porto Venere and La Spezia. Their vibrantly coloured houses, rocky seafronts and marinas full...
Sardinian Vacation
Clark Griswold has nothing on me – whatever could go wrong on this vacation, did. We chose to go to Sardegna (Sardinia) after our week in Tuscany, as we had a week to spare...
Pompeii and Pizza
When you go to Naples there are two must do’s – Pompeii and Pizza. Naples is Italy’s third largest city after Rome and Milan, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the...
