Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Mountain Venues
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games start today and Google has treated us to excellent new imagery of many of…
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The world famous Custard Lake in Australia supplies the entire state of South Australia with 90% of its annual custard requirements. Um, maybe. Mmmm, custard . . . My guess is that this is probably the bottom of a dry…
As visitors to Melbourne travel along the city’s new CityLink motorway, they’re confronted by 39 giant red poles lining the road, and an enormous yellow pillar tilted precariously over the traffic below. Officially named the ‘Melbourne International Gateway’, the locals…
Island Week is technically over, but we had to squeeze one more post in after loyal reader woowoowoo alerted us to Low Isles, off Port Douglas, Queensland, Australia. The Low Isles comprise of Low Island to the West and Woody…
Consisting of 29 atolls and 5 separate islands, the Republic of the Marshall Islands could have been Island Week all on its own. It probably could have been island month – all but 9 of the atolls are inhabited, and…
The unique Gagudju Crocodile Hotel is located in the world heritage listed KAKADU National Park. It’s probably called the Crocodile Hotel as it’s shaped like a 250m long Crocodile, with its jaws as the entrance and guest rooms in the…
This feels a little like ambulance chasing, so in no particular order, here are 9 (possible) traffic accidents. 1. Highway A13 just north of Rotterdam (there’s a couple of vehicles on the hard shoulder, and traffic is backed up for…
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games start today and Google has treated us to excellent new imagery of many of…
NASA’s first visitor centre, and one of the world’s largest public collections of space bits is the U.S. Space and…
Exactly 20 years ago today, on the 11th February 1990, the anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released from a 27-year…
Here in the United States somewhere (we think, we haven’t checked), we’ve found this random patch of land that we…
The continuing rollout of 45° “birds eye view” images across the globe1 has now revealed a real-life tragedy. On the…
In a country renowned for its natural beauty, one of the most spectacular landscapes is found along the Trollstigen (Troll’s…
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