Featured Image: Magnificent Glacier Riven Mustagh Ata, 7546m, between Tashkurgan and Kashgar, China, 1995 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 May 2022 Rain and Danger in Sust, Pakistan: Our Trip 5, 1995 This is the sixth article in travelling the Karakorum Highway series. The others are: 1 The Karakorum Highway (KKH), 2 The Lower Karakorum Highway, 3 Besham to Gilgit, the Terrain, 4 Extreme Polo …
Postcard from McLaren Vale
Featured Image: McLaren Vale Vineyards Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 April 2022 Postcard from McLaren Vale Other Postcards are from: Boudhanath Stupa, Dubai, Vienna, Rock of Cashel, Lake Tabourie, Tongariro Crossing and Tupare Garden. Australian outsiders often don’t think of South Australia. But, South Australia is an amazing tourist destination. We came to McLaren Vale to house-sit a vineyard, a dog and two horses in …
Clive Purcell WWI Soldier
Featured Image: Frank Hurley, Infantry Marching in Single File to the Front Line, Western Front 1917, State Library NSW Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 March 2022 Clive Purcell WWI Soldier, Gallipoli and France/Flanders, 1915-1919 Main Points What was the Australian Infantry Force (AIF) in World War I (WWI)? What role did it play in Gallipoli and in France? Why …
Hunza Valley, Pakistan: Our Trip 4
Featured Image: Lady Finger or Bublimating (6000 metres) and Hunza Peak (6270 m) above Karimabad, Hunza Valley, Pakistan. Ultar Peak (7388 m), Bojahagur Duanasir II (7329 m) are within 5 km. Rakaposhi (7788 m) and Diran Peak (7266 m) although around 27 kilometres away dominate the horizon across the river and the Karakorum Highway, KKH, May 1995. Breadtag Sagas ©: …
Extreme Polo in Gilgit Pakistan: Our Trip 3
Featured Image: Shandur Pass Polo Festival, photo by Shipton Trekking, the polo ground is at 12,300 feet (3800 metres) and the mountains rise up to 8,000 feet higher Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 2 August 2021 Extreme Polo in Gilgit and surrounding areas on the KKH 1995: Our Trip 3 This is the fourth article on our trip up and …
Besham to Gilgit the KKH Terrain: Our Trip 2
Featured Image: Indus Valley from Alai Road Looking Towards Besham Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 July 2021 Besham to Gilgit, the Terrain on the Karakorum Highway: Our Trip 2 This is the third article on our trip up and down the KKH. The others are 1 The Karakorum Highway (KKH), 2 The Lower Karakorum Highway, 4 Extreme Polo in Gilgit, 5 …
Clarice Beckett Painter, 1887-1935
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 June 2021 Clarice Beckett Australian Painter, 1887-1935 rediscovered in 1971 Introduction We are house-sitting in McLaren Vale in South Australia for three-and-a-half weeks. I have covered house-sitting before in Germany and England in earlier articles. House-sitting is a great alternative to tourism because it takes you to wonderful places that you probably wouldn’t go …
The Lower Karakorum Highway: Our Trip 1
Our trip on the Lower Karakorum Highway in 1995 was in a simpler time & age. The trip covers Taxila, Abbottabad, the Kaghan and Alai Valleys…
The Karakorum Highway KKH
Featured Image: Nanga Parbat, the ‘Killer Mountain’ 8126 metres, from Fairy Meadow, 1995 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 2 April 2021 The Karakorum Highway (KKH) in 1995 This is the first article in travelling the Karakorum Highway series. The others are: 2 The Lower Karakorum Highway, 3 Besham to Gilgit, the Terrain, 4 Extreme Polo in Gilgit, 5 The Hunza Valley. …
The Last Five Years: Global Threats 2021
Featured Photo: Five hundred homes were lost in Canberra in 2003; the whole coastal and near inland of south-eastern Australia was aflame in 2019/2020. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 March 2021 The Last Five Years, Global Threats in 2021: mass extinction, climate change, human population, refugees, Covid-19 and the Internet This article is a companion to my last …
Killing Osama bin Laden, Update 2021
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, 1 February 2021 The Killing of Osama bin Laden, Update 2021 In July to September 2015, I wrote three articles on The Last Days of Osama bin Laden. These were: 1 Abbottabad, 28 July 2015; …
Life Fragments
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 2 January 2021 Life Fragments I A work by Tony Stewart in September 2002. Introduction One of the pluses and minuses of making photomedia artworks on the computer — as well as not enough time in the fresh air — is that it is possible to make very large works that will sit in cyberspace …
Hummingbirds
Featured Image: The Zion Canyon camping area at Watchman on the Virgin River where hummingbirds flew over the river Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 July 2020 Hummingbirds Preamble The featured image shows just how adaptable specialist hummingbirds who migrate to North America are and have to be in the habitats they migrate through and to. Hummingbirds are feisty and …
White Island, New Zealand
Featured Image: The Main Vent Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 1 June 2020 White Island Volcanoes and Other Dangers I’ve seen and climbed on a number of volcanoes around the world including Mount Bromo in Java, Mount Agung and Mount Batur in Bali; Mount Vesuvius, with Pompei and Heraculaneum; Mount Etna and Volcano in Sicily; Mount Fuji in Japan and …
Johannes Vermeer Paintings
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 13 April 2020 Johannes Vermeer Paintings (1632-1675) Personal Background In my last article International Peasant Foods, I spoke of a trip from Canada down through Mexico and South America, which included two-and-a half weeks in New York. From this article and the one on Winnipeg food you may have gathered that I was a conventional …
