HOTELS, RESTAURANTS AND DESTINATIONS REVIEWED AT THE SPEED OF TRAVEL
Posted in Middle East, Sights/sounds on Maj 3rd, 2009
Q: What is it? A: Somewhere in the middle of the desert, (sometimes referred to as ‘nowhere’), there’s a bedouin camp where you won’t find business centers and turn-down service. However, staying in the desert is a luxury in itself! It quickly made it to my list of most beautiful places on earth. No matter [...]
Posted in Japan, Picture of the day, Sights/sounds on Nov 17th, 2008
Fresh premium pieces of tuna. Yes they are fresh. If you want to eat sushi that’s any more fresh, you’d better bring a sushi chef to the poop deck of your yacht. Fresh, was the word! Looks yummy, right? These pieces of premium quality tuna were for sale at the Tsukiji fish market. It is [...]
Posted in California, Picture of the day, Sights/sounds, USA on Nov 7th, 2008
If it looks somewhat familiar to you, you may have seen the James Bond movie ”View to a Kill”. This is the Golden Gate Bridge, built in 1937. It is a suspension bridge spanning the opening into the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. The bridge has a main span of 1280 m and [...]
Posted in Japan, Picture of the day, Sights/sounds on Okt 30th, 2008
If it looks somewhat familiar to you, you may have seen the movie ”Memoirs of a Geisha”. A monk walks through a passage of torii gates at the Fushimi Inari shrine just outside of Kyoto. A torii is a traditional Japanese gate commonly found at the entry to a Shinto shrine. It is frequently painted [...]
Posted in Sights/sounds, USA on Okt 22nd, 2008
The Navajos rent out tripods… The picture is taken in the Upper Antelope Canyon. Some refer to it as The Crack. My vote is with the LeChee Chapter of Navajo Nations. They call it Tse’ bighanilini, which means ”the place where water runs through rocks” and that’s exactly what happened during the last 100-200 million [...]
