Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 23 July 2015, updated March 2016 Articles in the series on food and restaurants in Chiang Mai are: 1 Akha Tribal Food, 2 Pho Vieng Chane, 3 Khao Soy, 4 French & Italian Restaurants, 5 Airport Plaza, 6 2017 Update. From the past articles, you will be beginning to gain an idea of some …
What travel costs 3: Scuba diving in the Philippines 2
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 30 June 2015 Trip to the Philippines, 14 to 29 April 2012 The first trip to the Philippines was so good we planned another one a year later to dive the Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park in the middle of the Sulu Sea. We booked with the Expedition Fleet for 4 days diving. …
Postcard from Vienna: Michaelerplatz sculpture
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 28 June 2015 (Other Postcards are from: Boudhanath Stupa, Dubai, Rock of Cashel, Lake Tabourie.) Trip to Europe 7 September to 8 December 2007 Going back to Vienna in 2007 seems like a time capsule to me, and it’s not long ago. I’d read John Irving’s first novel Setting free the bears years ago …
What travel costs 2: Scuba diving in the Philippines 1
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 24 June 2015 Trip to the Philippines, 22 March to 2 April 2011 This was my first trip to the Philippines with my nephew Paul who’d been previously. The trip was for 11 nights. My nephew had briefed me that the hotels were expensive by Asian standards and not to expect too much …
What travel costs 1: Alice Springs
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 7 June 2015 Trip to Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia to walk on the Larapinta Trail and to see Ayer’s Rock, 15 June to 2 July 2013. I was at a dinner the other night and some friends ridiculed me for thinking of providing information on what travel costs, because they say it …
In praise of Indian mangoes
Featured photo: Movie poster at Jubilee Hills Check Post, Hyderabad Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, December 2011 They gave me a mango at breakfast in Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, in the boutique hotel where I was staying. The mango was beautifully presented in Thai style: two halves on the plate with the seed removed. The halves were cut …
House-sitting in northern Germany: Where we live
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 14 May 2015 Trip: Europe, April to December 2014. House-sitting near Großenkneten in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), April to June 2014. Our house is a typical German two-family house, with both upstairs and downstairs. The house is relatively modern with an older section somewhere downstairs. The plan and construction (red …
Our first house-sitting assignment with strangers
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 14 May 2014 Trip: Europe, April to December 2014. House-sitting near Großenkneten in Lower Saxony or Niedersachsen, April to June 2014. Today is Sunday. We arrived two weeks ago. Settling into Lower Saxony near Großenkneten has been a strange experience. We’d had a couple of days in Paris and in Hamburg before …
Dubai Postcard
Featured Image: Looking down from the Burj Khalifa, Dubai Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 16 October 2012 (Other Postcards are from: Dubai, Vienna, Rock of Cashel, Lake Tabourie, Tongariro Crossing, Tupare Garden.) Postcard from Dubai Trip: Italy and Sicily, October to December 2012. Dubai was a surprise. I had expected Bob Marley and the Rastafarians’ Babylon with endless opportunity for cynical …
Boudhanath Stupa Postcard, Nepal
Featured Image: Boudhanath Stupa Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 11 March 2013 Trip: Everest Region March/April 2013 with Teresa. (Other posts on Nepal and Nepal trekking on this site are: Everest Trekking 1, Everest Trekking 2, Muktinath to ABC Trek, Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Pattale to Juke Trek and Pattale to Pikey Peak Trek.) Postcard from Nepal: Boudhanath Stupa We arrived in Nepal from Thailand …
