It’s funny walking around a place that is all name brands. Fashion isn’t high on my list of hobbies, but I do need to get a new jacket – so I braved the Magnificent Mile for a morning to see…
The Windy City
Chicago is now one of my favourite cities to wander around. I parked myself on the Magnificent Mile between the Chicago Water Tower and a hospital for the few days I was in town.The Magnificent Mile is basically the stretch…
Navy Pier Gourmet
America – pioneers of fine cuisine, neatly packaged to go. I found these pretzel dogs at Navy Pier on Lake Michigan. It’s funny that the Navy built a pier here in Chicago. The lake doesn’t connect to the sea, so…
Race You To Chicago
I am on my way to the U.S, so while I am waiting for my ride I thought I would take one last photo to remind me what paradise looks like. (The photo didn’t work out that well – it…
The Ancient Mayans
The ancient civilisation of the Mayans were second best at just about everything. There isn’t really anything they were good at until the Spanish arrived and then they truly came into their own. Take, for example, the pyramid at Chichen…
Anyone For Golf? Or Maybe A Swim?
I am staying about an hour outside of Cancun this week in the Mayan Riviera. My tent at the camp site I am staying at overlooks a golf course designed by Jack Nicklaus. For those of you who aren’t into…
Worst day ever….
Not for me, but for my dive buddy – Nancy. Let me explain: I am probably only going to get a chance to dive once on this trip and that is here in Cancun. The locals won’t swim in the…
The Zombies Are Under Control
The internet crept up on the western world slow enough that no one realised until it was too late. The basis of all zombie movies, it turns out, is not actually zombies hunting for brains, but hunting for wi-fi. People…
Cuban Art
Before communism in Cuba, the indigenous people wore no clothes. Roles were reversed to what we are used to now – women would put on their armoured stilettos and grab their battle forks and ride their roosters (I was going…
Play Hard, Work Maybe….
This is sunset at Varadero, a resort town on the north coast of Cuba. Each night the government has the sun go down at dusk so tourists can take photos of it. The locals are also rationed a single sunset…