It's been quite a while since I wrote up a piece of rural Portuguese property, but this little gem jumped out at me a couple of days ago...

As I was putting this design together, it struck me that it serves as a kind of pocket virtual tour around Portugal using the web-based...

I got my first job as a busboy at the Captain's Palace Restaurant when I was 14, back in 1981. I started waiting tables when I was 17, a...

Kumpupintil Lake: "Kumpupintil Lake is about 160 kilometres long and located 300 kilometres east of Newman. The 33,000-hectare...

This, as many of you will know, is Rowan, our youngest son. He just turned 12, and I have been his (and his brother, Alex's) primary...

Italy was the last country on my itinerary during the Great Big Trip to Europe, 2005. In order - Rome, Venice, Florence, Naples, and then...

After finding some great examples of Human Shadow Residue at the base of the Sagrada Familia (see previous post), I began looking at...

Shahrabad, Iran

Photos I took in Granada in 2005, along with Google Earth views of the same subject. Click on the rendered images to trigger that view...

Clicking the images will trigger the new, web-based Google Earth for oddly-rendered views of each.

Bégin Military Teaching Hospital, Paris, France I found this interesting. I was well aware that Google Earth has only rendered portions...

Bom dia, everyone and anyone. I'm coming to you whatever-the-blog-equivalent-is-of "live" from the living room of Casa de Hayes, in...