OK, so we’ve really outdone ourselves this year, but better late than never we always say – this year, November is the chosen month for the long-awaited return of Island Week! Island week originally began broadcasting in August 2006, but…

Hello! Yes we are still here, we’ve just been caught up (temporarily at least) with offline activities. As we haven’t been keeping you bang up-to-date with the goings on on Google Maps, we should point out that Google just yesterday…

This week sees the return of our longest-standing theme week, which is now entering its sixth year: Volcano week. The theme of the week is “volcanoes”, but over the next few days we hope to discover more about the places…

We’re taking a bit of a summer breather here at Google Sightseeing, so to fill the gap in our schedule, we asked Tom Howder of the fascinating Twelve Mile Circle blog to write up a story he and his readers…

As is customary, the “much-more-interesting-than-it-sounds” desert week is one week late again this year! However, our writers have been touring (in some cases literally) the deserts of the world, to bring you the most fascinating sights to be found in…

We were recently contacted by David Nicol from Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, who had started writing an article (mostly for his own amusement), that used Google Street View to spotlight the few surviving remains of Elizabethan London as it would…