Possibly the world’s most famous country and the one that everyone thinks they know everything about, right? McDonalds and guns, Hollywood and baseball. Yet, travel through USA reveals a hundred if not a thousand different identities within the borders of “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Dive in for travel writing, photographs and videos about this fascinating collection of, yes, united states…
Birds. With one stretch of their wings they can soar and glide through the sky with a majesty and freedom that man (and woman) can still only dream of. They are majestic, magnificent and make driving home for Christmas seem insignificant when compared to their staggering migratory paths.
They also freak me out…
As it turns out, once you’ve made the jump (ahem) into the water to take still photos with a piece of technology, it’s then very easy to switch to the video mode and…
How does a camera fare when you kayak, snorkel, coasteer and more? Here’s how…
Great tingling tastebuds, do Americans know about food. Yes, it’s easy to knock the hamburger, the behemoth “sodas” and the rather strangely named corn dog. The portion sizes may overwhelm and…
As a child, I always wanted to swim with dolphins. And if I’m honest, a
The sun that sets in Key West is not subtle. It flames across the sky, capturing clouds in its blaze of amber, scarlet and peach, drawing their lilac-grey sighs into a resplendent performance…For all the colourful language, it’s true…
The View Underwater
Part of this week’s photo safari through the Florida Keys…Words to follow…
Water. In the space called Frederick Sound, the water waits silently. There’s a
Seattle’s Pike Place Market has pulled off an outrageously flamboyant version of the American Dream: it’s made selling fish sexy.
It’s a narrow wooden bridge, so when a girl runs past, the reverberations affect us all. She’s a teenager, or maybe older, in classic blue jeans and US sneakers, with flowing blonde hair. A few minutes later I see her again, wrapped in a traditional Tlingit cloak and chanting with her ancestors.
We’ve crossed the bridge to the space outside Chief Shakes’ House, some 1000 miles north of Seattle.
Finally, I stop. My heartbeat reels like a dizzy child who’s been spinning around on the spot, my lungs test their boundaries and my soul smiles with joy. This must be what they mean by a natural high.
Ballard, a northerly neighbourhood of watery Seattle, has a history of seafaring, sailing and shipbuilding. Salmon and Scandinavia are the words you’ll hear around here, in between the neat rows of wooden houses with oh-so-American front porches.
I didn’t find much graffiti, but I did find…
So simple, so fresh, so utterly amazing. Ice and fire fascinate me at a level [...]
The dazzling (if incongruously named) Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA, designed by Frank Gehry. More on my recent adventures…
Despite studying science, there are a few things that always seem…
Bright white and blue – that’s the typical image of a glacier, isn’t it? Milky glacial water, iridescent ice and a sky full of sunshine or perhaps the swirl of falling snow.
The Baird Glacier in southeast Alaska has a rather different chemistry…
I’ll admit it, the very term “Flightseeing” made me flinch a little. It’s right there with staycation, functionality and deplane as the opposite of words that make me smile.
Yet, one glance at the floatplanes walking on water changed my mind…
Hi, I'm Abi, a writer and photographer who swapped a career as a doctor for a life on the road. Find out more
