Pictures coming! Check back often!! Wednesday, May 13, 2026 I don't know what it must have felt like for a medieval peasant to visit Rome, but I am in a similar position at the 34th annual Congress…

Miles: 13 P.U.D.s - Pointless Up and Downs. A large section of the trail was deemed uncrossable by the forest services so today was literally one massive detour. Most of it was walking on dirt roads,…

Sunday, we woke up early to check out the Shishiden (Lion stage) on the grounds of the Namba Yasaka Shrine I saw this on social media...and there were quite a number of foreigners out and about…

About 25 years ago when we arrived in Wisconsin, this wooded area behind the house was wall-to-wall buckthorn and honeysuckle. I spent two summers grubbing those out, and within a year or two the…

metrocentric:Windsor Road / East Tyndall StreetCaerdydd / Cardiff

These photos are from about a week ago. I didn’t have time to upload a […]

Galicia, May 2026.

After our hike at Catwalk Recreational Area, we were both hungry, so we drove up to the Alma Grill for lunch. It was a bustling place with lots of characters, staff and customers. I had the best…

Town in Comarques Gironines, Catalonia.Photo by Xarxa de Municipis Indians.

The post describes my last three days in Rome.On the day that I switched to Alessandro Palace & Bar hostel, Prachi and I took a guided walking tour called Heart of Rome Walk that you can get from…

Before diving into this piece, please be sure to read the 3 previous instalments called Glaciers I Have Known – Parts 1, 2 and 3. Most of what was shown up until now were glaciers in British…

It’s amazing to me that we are walking along a road that was built 2000 years ago…

If you’re looking for the best eSIM for Morocco, I recently tested Simify during my trip through the country. In […]

Finding some cats in Houtong Cat Village…

Local nature is in a silly mood today. Our walk with the dog this morning was quite amusing.70 words · 3 images

A visit to a town in a part of the country I love, but not somewhere I had visited before. But in what was only a stop of a few hours, I found a thriving, bustling place with plenty of history, oh,…

Birds aren't too fussy about looks

13 May 2026 While we slept 3.88 million birds flew over Allegheny County last night! BirdCast’s Migration Dashboard as of 5:20am shows a huge jump in migration. Here’s the rest of…

Two months spent surfing and traveling around the kingdom of Morocco with a Nikon F3 and a couple rolls of film... The post Morocco Photo Essay by Courtney Hurrell appeared first on Shoot It With…

Last time I had a chance to photograph airliners was way back in February in AMS. And although I've been thoroughly enjoying capturing small airplanes in CNL, I did miss proper airports and big…

With illustrations by Samantha Gallagher. I saw this book somewhere on the Fediverse and decided to give it a go. I like bugs. I like seeing them and taking their pictures, even though I have no idea…

Hot off the press. I found some very affordable hotel rates for really good hotels in the heart of Bangkok's Chinatown. Priced around 1000 THB to 1400 THB. For May/June 2026. Mostly around Yaowarat…

Sakrisøy is one of the most picturesque villages in Norway’s Lofoten Islands. Most of the houses are painted in the distinctive yellow colour produced by a mix of ochre and cod liver oil,…

Small structure, giant stones On a visit to Liverpool recently, I was very taken with the docks, the Royal Albert Dock in particular. Its imposing and innovative structure deserves at least one post…

I was up in northern Sydney today, and saw the longest and most vivid rainbow I think I’ve ever seen in my life! I didn’t have a proper camera on me, and was almost late to a meeting, but…

This edition of our For A Change series combines stoke and sustainability as we pull back the curtain on Hope Academy. The UK manufacturer of ornate alloy components also commands a fleet of 2,000…

I recently spent 2 weeks in New York City to feed my nostalgia and revisit this place that I kind of grew up with. I used to stay with a relative here on my past visits, who sadly passed away a few…

Where: Rocky Point Park (Port Moody), DeBoville Slough (Port Coquitlam)Weather: Mostly sunny, 21°C Today the weather was more seasonal, but still a bit warmer than normal. It was warm enough for a…

Cicadas spend most of their lives tunneling through soil. Herkimer Diamonds — doubly terminated quartz crystals — are found in the soil of Herkimner, New York. Sometimes they’re…

It was another exhausting but fun day in New York City for the Old Blogmeister. I had time to take in one Broadway show this trip so my pal/editor Charlie Kochman and I went to see Hadestown. I liked…

Spring has sprung all over the world.  Flowering trees, shrubs, grasses and plants of every imagination put forth a cornucopia of color to attract pollinators to set their fruit and seed. …

I usually write with the conviction that faith elevates the practice of birdwatching. But sometimes faith can sabotage it. Thus begins the tragic tale of my best worst birding adventure.

Miles: 13 Try not to eat all your food on first day challenge. difficulty: impossible. I’ve been going to chow town so much I need to remind myself to not eat everything at once! I start out with my…

In a few hours time I’ll be setting off on my fully loaded steel touring bike (it weighs a ton) down to Dover. I have booked a ferry over to Dunkirk sailing at 6.00 am. When I booked the ferry…

Quick tips on best practices, with links to my detailed articles. This post covers: How to clip horizontal ring anchors, be nice to your cams, how to rap from a tree, a caution on the HollowBlock,…

A relatively short drive today, and except for an annoying detour by Google Maps who routed us through a narrow road neighborhood, it went without incident. Sometimes, Google Maps sucks. I am…

I finally watched Twin Peaks and made the obligatory pilgrimage.

you don't have to travel too far if you're looking to switch things up. be a tourist in your own country. i'm a lover of travel. i'm trying to visit as many countries as i can but unfortunately i'm…

a while ago an internet friend posted that they got a bird feeder to add some enrichment to their cat’s enclosure, to help with food anxiety. i thought that might help ravioli, since he’s often…

Travel logs. to be added.

Had to burn some vacation time, so we executed a multi-day travel extravaganza through another part of the US we've never been. The New York Finger Lakes. Let's get this out of the way immediately. I…

Sunday 5th April 2026 Like, totally .... A lot of water has flowed under the bridge (probably a Scottish one) since I brought my remaining Oxfordshire tally down to just two pubs on Easter Sunday,…

Songkran, silom

Diving Scapa Flow (Part 2) - SMS Karlsruhe This is a pretty regular 'shake out' dive in Scapa Flow as its shallow and more broken up than some of the bigger ships, despite that, it's still one of my…

This article was produced in partnership with U.S. Travel Association (USTA). Few cities in the United States can claim the cultural and historical gravity of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and even…

Galicia, May 2026.

70mm 1/800 sec f/4.5 200You're seeing this e-mail because you signed up for Good Rectangles.June 25, 2020. From one of many, many walks around the strange little neighborhood I lived in Venice,…

It’s time for another article in my Tet Zoo Reviews Zoos series, and this time we look at a zoo in that troubled and terrifying nation known as the USA, specifically in the north-western state of…