2006 Archive
Summer in the city: Surfing at the Water Taxi Beach Bar
Photos 18
Last Saturday, summer hit New York City. It's funny how suddenly the seasons arrive: certainly there's been the occasional warm evening throughout the spring months, but then first really hot day is something else. The window-mounted A/C gets its first run of the year. Blankets and flannel sheets get stashed. The warm coat that [...]
The Land of King Krak
Hustle and Bustle, downtown Krakow
It was dark outside, and with the drizzle, the streets of Krakow didn't look particularly inviting. We headed towards the Old Town, a place noted for its bars and restaurants. After only a hundred yards or so, Jodie stopped walking. 'I don't like this. I'm not getting good vibes.'
'Look!' gestured Jodie, [...]
Don’t Flip the Fish: Rules of Etiquette at a Meal in China
I'm a bit drunk ! How's that for starters?
Blame the Baijiu. The stuff of legends, or leg ends. Depends where you are. I'm in Huayuan and its been a funny old day. Last night I made a call to Mr Ma, he works for the government education department. From there on it was full [...]
Easter Island Photos
In Chile it's called Isla de Pascua and the natives there call it Rapa Nui or Te Pito te Henua (world's belly button).
How to See the Olympic Peninsula
moclips beach
locals, rainforest trail
honeymooners, lake quinalt
ruby beach
Don't tell me I can't learn from my mistakes. I absolutely can. And now, so can you. If you're off to the Olympic peninsula and only have three days, take, please, my advice and do the following.
Go ahead and do exactly what we did and book yourself a [...]
Hangin’ with the Ulta-Budget Travelers in Bocas del Toro Panama
We stayed at the Tranquillo del Mar in Bocas. Notice the name isn't linked to their website. This isn't the kind of place with a website. Or a phone. Or a roof over all of the bathroom. In fact, we only discovered on the third night that this place actually had a name, other than [...]
Handmade Indigenous People
Chocolate process
ï Ripe Cacao 2200 ï 2202,2205 Cut open cacao, sucked on fruit covering seed, can bite the seed and taste the bitter of the chocolate ï Peel, dry the seeds outside on a wood table ï Dried seeds 2206 2186 ï 2210 Put seeds in wood tray, shake to separate husk from seeds ï Put seeds in bag and [...]
Will You Marry Me?
New York has its moments when it's almost magical. Given it's constraints, the city should really be dysfunctional all the time but somehow it often works and more, often surprising me.
I went for a walk through the village late Wednesday night and was pleasantly surprised to find that it had warmed up. It wasn't really [...]
Mexican Migration: Between the Wall and the Sword
'Prohibido' sign in San Diego County of fleeing migrants.
Photo Bob Davidson
A small Mexican girl makes her way up a path in Nogales, Mexico. On the other side of the border fence: America.
Photo Tony Allen-Mills
Mexico has a long history with walls. When Cortez first arrived at the Aztec metropolis of Tenochtitlán, now Mexico City, it was a series [...]
You Won’t Regret It!
Approaching Riga International Airport on a dark February evening, I noticed the snow outside for the first time. It was blowing past the wing in ferocious streaks of white. I turned to Jodie, wondering whether to tell her. After all, it had taken some hard convincing to get her to go to Latvia. I recalled [...]
