Featured update image: Muang Mai Wholesale Market, March 2017 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 4 May 2017 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 Update. Another article is about What Travel Costs in Chiang …
Everest Region Trekking 2
Featured Image: Just another mountain (outside lodge gate, Dingboche) Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 December 2016 Trekking in the Everest Region in Spring 2013: Phortse to Lukla via Dingboche (Other posts on Nepal and Nepal trekking on this site are: Boudhanath Stupa, Everest Trekking 1, Muktinath to ABC Trek, Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Pattale to Juke Trek,and Pattale to Pikey Peak Trek.) April 16 to Macchermo …
Everest Region Trekking 1
Featured Image: What it is all about! (near Machhermo) Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 14 November 2016 Trekking in the Everest Region in Spring 2013: Lukla to Gokyo (Other posts on Nepal and Nepal trekking on this site are: Boudhanath Stupa, Everest Trekking 2, Muktinath to ABC Trek, Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Pattale to Juke Trek,and Pattale to Pikey Peak Trek.) Preamble Reading my Postcard from …
What Travel Costs 7: Chiang Mai, Thailand
Featured photo: Meat Stall, Muang Mai Markets Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 27 April 2016 I started my series of travel writing with a bee in my bonnet about what things cost. In once sense it is a nice snapshot in time of how much the type of long leisurely travel we tended to do did cost. It made me learn …
Food in Chiang Mai 5: Airport Plaza
Featured Image: Airport Plaza, entry to Kad Luang Food Hall, pre-prepared meats to take home Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 9 April 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 Update. Another article is …
The Colour of India
Featured image Lambadi Woman, Gramya 2005 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 23 March 2016 The Colour of India Introduction Having just visited India in February/March 2016. I’m inspired again by the wonders of India, even though the NGOs I’m aware of despair at the the excesses of the current central government. In mid-2010 the South Coast Pastel Society (New South Wales, …
Marie Kondo, Tidying
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 14 March 2016 Introduction Marie Kondo The life-changing magic of tidying 2014. 2016 might be my year for getting excited over weird books. The Big Twitch in January and Gut in February are good examples. I mentioned my normal views on self-help books in my discussion of Gut by Giulia Enders and how I lean towards Steve …
Autumn in Japan
Featured image: Not quite Autumn, Miyajima Island, near Hiroshima, 28 October Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 27 October 2015 Japan in Autumn, 2013 Introduction When I was doing my postgraduate research, I found that Canberra in Australia — where I have lived most and reside now — has four seasons of almost exactly three months each. This may be …
Addicted to Sumo too
Featured photo: Simon Q Flickr, Wikimedia, Sumo bow-twirling ceremony, May 2014 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 20 October 2015 Sumo Wrestling Japan Introduction We made our first trip to Japan from 16 October to 25 November 2013. A friend had done a textile tour with Shuji Yamazaki a couple of years previously and had convinced us to …
Large dams 3: Oustees India
Feature photo: On the Godavari River, 2009 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 10 October 2015 Oustees across India : The tragedy of displaced people Introduction This is the last of three articles on large dams the others are Large Dams 1: An Introduction and Large Dams 2: Aswan High Dam. The Murray-Darling Basin Catastrophe describes a similar issue in Australia. …
The Last Days of Osama bin Laden 3: The killing
Featured Photo: Pete Souza, Official White House Photographer, 4.06 pm EST, 1 May 2011, Situation room for bin Laden raid Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 8 September 2015 The two preliminary articles which preceded this article were: 1 Abbottabad, 28 July 2015 and 2 9/11, 9 August 2015. The first sets the stage and tries to answer the question …
Food in Chiang Mai 4: French and Italian Restaurants
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 Update. Another article is about What Travel Costs in Chiang Mai, part of another memorable series. …
What travel costs 3: Scuba diving in the Philippines 2
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 30 June 2015 I started my series of travel writing with a bee in my bonnet about what things cost. In once sense it is a nice snapshot in time of how much the type of long leisurely travel we tended to do did cost. It made me learn the subtle art of forensic accounting …
What travel costs 2: Scuba diving in the Philippines 1
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 24 June 2015 I started my series of travel writing with a bee in my bonnet about what things cost. In once sense it is a nice snapshot in time of how much the type of long leisurely travel we tended to do did cost. It made me learn the subtle art of forensic …
Rukmini Rao Woman of the Year 2014
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 22 June 2015 Rukmini Rao has been my friend for a very long time. I have been travelling to India on and off for many years. Since 2004 I have worked with Rukmini and Gramya for up to two months each year as a volunteer.