Even Dairy Queen’s Dangerous!
Middle of nowhere British Columbia, beware of bears…wolves…avalanches… …and teen burgers. Caution Picture #2 When did these appear?
CAREFUL! You just might…trip?
Are children still constantly told to tie up their shoelaces? Or did that go out of fashion when ‘Pull up your pants!’ did? The latter warning used to seem more serious. That is of course until the current fashion craze (and that word has several meanings) consisting of offering the world to see that your…
Easter Redux
The scent of incense, the boom of the drums and the rattle of the snares, pushy yet well dressed crowds, dolled up children trying to be pious, hooded penitents doing the same… It’s Easter once again here in Spain. Click over for a look from my window.
Destino España
Having a little fun with bulls, blues and bars on national Spanish television.
Springing Spring
Why does it seem that with every year, winter seems to get longer and longer? No matter how mild the year, as with this past winter here in Extremadura, the dark days of the ‘other’ equinox drag on longer than your 10th grade math teacher droning on about algebra. I even sometimes find myself wishing…
A Tripoli a world away from now
I look down and check the time on my Ghaddafi watch and remember walks through the old town in Tripoli, a world and a war away from the hell that it must be now. Click over to Trazzler trip in the old medina. A different time from now.
Tripping Through the Okanagan
Helmcken falls, Wells Grey Provincial Park, B.C I’ve been working with the great people over at Trazzler again, this time trapsing through the beautiful Okanagan valley in southern British Colombia. 10 trips, 10 different things to do while you pinch yourself and wonder if you really are in the frozen Great White North. OK…a few…
III Premio de Periodismo Ciudad de Cáceres Fundación Mercedes Calles y Carlos Ballestero
“Travel, set out and head for pastures new. Life tastes richer when you’ve road-worn feet. No water that stagnates is fit to drink for only that which flows is truly sweet.” – imam Al-Shafi and travel I have…20 years ago I set out from a frozen, snowy place somewhere near the top of the world.…
Interview in El Periodico
After winning the III Premio de Periodismo Ciudad de Cáceres Fundación Mercedes Calles y Carlos Ballestero, here’s a short profile in El Periodico de Extremadura.
Two Places, 2 Different Worlds
National Geographic’s photography contest 2010 Two places…same world…only just Pakistan and… Saskatchewan