Featured Image: Heavily modified panorama of Machhapuchhre or Fishtail from above MBC towards ABC. Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 6 March 2018 Muktinath to ABC (Annapurna Base Camp) trekking in Nepal, 2004 (Other posts on Nepal and Nepal trekking on this site are: Boudhanath Stupa, Everest Trekking 1, Everest Trekking 2, Annapurna Sanctuary Trek, Pattale to Juke Trek,and Pattale to Pikey Peak Trek.) Introduction We went …
The last days of Osama bin Laden 1: Abbottabad
Featured Photo: Aslam Jadoon /EPA 2011 Abbottabad, between the Piffers and the Balochis Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 28 July 2015 This post somehow got erased. It is not a new post in 2018! Part 1 merely sets the stage and tries to answer the question posed by newspapers at the time and recently: Whether Osama bin Laden was …
Postcard from Lake Tabourie, Australia
Featured image: Crampton Island at Twilight Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 16 January 2018 Other Postcards are from: Boudhanath Stupa, Dubai, Vienna, Rock of Cashel, Tongariro Crossing, Tupare Garden. A postcard from coastal Lake Tabourie, NSW, southeastern Australia We spent five days at New Year at Lake Tabourie with Judy, Neil and other friends. It was a wonderful time with good food, wine and …
19 Best Travel Blogs & Websites
Featured image: Sadhu and God, Pushkar, 1995 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 2 July 2017 19 Best Travel Blogs & Websites & Why The true reason I chose to write about travel blogs was that I was embarrassed about my links page. I’d neglected it since shortly after setting up my blog. I thought that writing articles about the relevant …
Food in Chiang Mai 6: 2017 Update
Featured update image: Muang Mai Wholesale Market, March 2017 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 4 May 2017 Food in Chiang Mai 6: 2017 Update 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 2017 Update. Denise …
Morocco Accommodation
Morocco featured image: Modern Table, Fes Tile Factory Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 17 March 2017 Morocco Accommodation Variety AirBNB & Other, October 2016 Introduction In planning our trip we used personal recommendations from friends who had been to Morocco twice and an acquaintance we stayed with in far Western NSW who all loved Morocco, and also from some well travelled …
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 …
Bosch 500th Centenary Exhibition, The Prado 2016
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 4 November 2016 The two 500th year Bosch Exhibitions in the Netherlands and Spain Hieronymus Bosch: Visions of Genius, Noordbrabants Museum, Den Bosch, Netherlands from 13 February to 8 May 2016. Bosch: The 5th Centenary Exhibition, Museo del Prado, Madrid from 31 May to 11 September 2016. Introduction, controversy and a little spite We’ve got to take …
Dog Story
Featured image: Jack, Dukie and Denise Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 20 September 2016 Doggie Tails Original title, which I much prefer. House-sitting, Buckinghamshire, UK Setting The Chiltern Hills form a chalk escarpment in South East England. We were house-sitters in two locations here in Buckinghamshire during the summer of 2014. The first place we spent one week, had a …
AirBNB Adventures 1: Italy & Sicily 2012
Featured image: View of Ortygia Island, the historical centre of Syracuse, Sicily Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 25 May 2016 AirBNB Adventure 1: Florence to Syracuse, Italy & Sicily 2012 Introduction In thinking about this series, I decided to contact all my previous AirBNB hosts to ask whether they were still active and wanted to be identified specifically or …
What Travel Costs 7: Chiang Mai, Thailand
Featured photo: Meat Stall, Muang Mai Markets Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 27 April 2016 What Travel Costs 7: Chiang Mai, Thailand (& Hyderabad, India) The main purpose of my trip was to go to India to undertake a promised visit to my friend Rukmini to catch up. I chose to fly via Bangkok rather than take a cheaper trip with …
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 Food in Chiang Mai 5: Airport Plaza with some side notes on Bangkok Articles in the series on food and restaurants in Chiang Mai are: 1 Akha Tribal Food, 2 Pho Vieng Chane, 3 Khao Soy, …
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, …
Postcard from The Rock of Cashel
Featured image: The Rock of Cashel, Old Tower, 1101 Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 24 January 2016 Other Postcards are from: Boudhanath Stupa, Dubai, Vienna, Lake Tabourie, Tongariro Crossing, Tupare Garden. The Rock of Cashel, Co. Tipperary, Ireland Introduction We left the fancy penthouse, we’d stayed in for two nights on the Quayside in Dublin and headed West on 18 September 2014. Cashel …
