Welsh flag at Llangollen

A personal reflection on flags for #FriFotos

by John

The theme for the photo sharing day on Twitter on Friday 18 November 2011 was Flags. If you look at my Twitter profile you will see that I tend to spend time between three locations. In this piece, I will include photos, including flags from each of these places. Wales [...]

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Comparing Travel Carbon Footprints

by John

There are a lot of widely held views  built on hearsay and misinformation. The deeper I look, the more  complicated the story seems to get. One of my aims is to educate myself on travel environmental issues. Then to share my findings on this site and hopefully start a discussion [...]

Plougsteert Memorial

Remembering the fallen

by John

#FriFotos is the weekly photo sharing day on Twitter. On Friday November 11, the theme is “Fall”, but as is usual, it is open to interpretation. Fall is the term used for Autumn in North America. However, the eleventh of November is Armistice Day and a Public Holiday in much [...]

Waymarker on GR5

Trail gazing

by John

Have you ever stood on a railway station concourse and stared longingly at destinations on the Departures Board that were not printed on your tickets? Have you ever found yourself on the road somewhere and found that the you were travelling along one of the world’s more famous long distance [...]

5 star hotel room

What is a taste in luxury travel actually saying?

by John

Why is it so many people aspire to fly in First Class, sleep in Five Star hotels (or even Seven Star hotels) and eat in Michelin Three Star restaurants? Don’t they know that it is very poor value for money? That you can sleep just as well in a £29 [...]

Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

Britain's most popular canal?

by John

The Llangollen canal between Llantysilio and Chirk is the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in the United Kingdom than spans two countries. The listed section covers a distance of 18 kilometres and includes two aqueducts spanning deep valleys, as well as two tunnels. It was built between 1793 and 1808 [...]

Pony Pony Run Run at Brussels Summer Festival

Belgian Music Festivals 2011

by John

There are many music festivals in Belgium from big free festivals to the charged ones such as Rock Werchter, Europe’s best music festival.

HDR South Stack Lighthouse

Photo Essay: Holy Island, Anglesey

by John

The main story for Holy Island can be found as “On the trail of a Welsh Asterix” on VisitBritain’s Superblog. But here is a photo essay of some of the sights from the post and further afield on Anglesey.

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Photo essay: Lucid in Lucerne, part 3

by John

Leaving the river Reuss I headed into the into the streets of the old town. I’ll just let the photos tell the story. It’s a photo essay after all. If you want to read up about Lucerne. Look up Wikipedia or Wikitravel. If you have written a blog post on [...]

Tag : brussels

Tintin mural, Stockel Metro Station

On the Tintin trail in Brussels

While walking the streets of Brussels, I am often aware that I am following in the footsteps of Georges Rémi, better known as Hergé, creator of Tintin. From where I type this article, I can see both of the schools he attended in his youth. He left his mark in the form [...]

Christmas Market at place Sainte Catherine, Brussel

Exploring Brussels’ Winter Wonders

It is the overhead snippets of conversation, that tells me that Winter Wonders or Plaisirs d’Hiver in French, is popular with visitors. “I was like…” the repeated “like” in twenty something females’ conversations. The oral version of a Facebook Wall. Or “I am lucky, as I can catch a train [...]

Bonon spider, Brussels

Can Street Art improve a city?

by John
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Published on: September 10, 2011

Street art Last week I visited the Ixelles Museum here in Brussels before their exhibition on Street Art closed and is replaced by a Dubuffet exhibition. Bonom was featured heavily, with insights into how he plans his pieces. The photo above shows a spider on a concrete building by Chapelle [...]

The Sequence

Daily Photo: The Sequence by Arne Quinze in winter

by John
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Published on: September 5, 2011

The Sequence by Arne Quinze The art of Arne Quinze involves a lot of timber nailed together from an aerial platform. This piece is in the government quarter of Brussels. It is built above the street so that it is possible to cycle or even drive a car underneath. This [...]

Mont des Arts

Daily photo: Mont des Arts in the Brussels Summer Festival

by John
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Published on: August 18, 2011

Mont des Arts, Brussels The Brussels Summer Festival is on this week, it closes with Stromae on Sunday night. Earlier this year I uploaded a guide to Belgian Music Festival. I have been busy enjoying some of my favourite Belgian groups and discovering some new ones, even missing #TogChat on [...]

Brussels street performers

Daily photo: Waiting for the green light

by John
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Published on: July 1, 2011

Brussels Street performers at traffic lights At the start of rue de Trone. This patch is normally worked by sad looking people who look on pleadingly while holding out a paper cup. Now, though many of the traffic lights have street performers such as jugglers or in this case acrobats. [...]

Trawler exhibit at the EU, Brussels

A bicycle and a fish fight in Brussels

On Saturday afternoon, I went for a ride around Brussels using Villo! bicycles. I was looking for some street art by Muga. After I had found the piece I was looking for, I continued exploring the back streets by bike. After ending up at Place Jourdain, I decided the best [...]

Cherries

Photo essay: A close up of place Flagey market

by John
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Published on: June 20, 2011

I posted a short piece about shopping at Place Flagey Market in 2009. It is a welcome port of call on a Saturday or Sunday morning, with plenty of organic produce on sale. This week I took my camera and set the focus to macro ando took some photos of [...]

Dubuffet, Flaine, France

Free to view art: Part 2 – Murals and sculptures

In an earlier post, I shared some of my the street art I had come across on my travels. This post will also be about free to view art, but this time the art herein is all officially sanctioned.  Belgium is the capital of Bande Desinée (carton strips), many of [...]

Pony Pony Run Run at Brussels Summer Festival

Belgian Music Festivals 2011

There are many music festivals in Belgium from big free festivals to the charged ones such as Rock Werchter, Europe’s best music festival.

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