Featured image: Lucinda Fredericks AUS Flying Finish, Jump 5 ICE-VIBE Oxer, Luhmühlen 2014 Breadtag Sagas ©: Authors Denise & Tony, 25 November 2015 Luhmühlen CCI**** Three-Day Event 12-15 June, 2014 Introduction to the sport Having covered an esoteric sport in Addicted to Sumo too a few weeks ago, Tony thought it was time to cover another: also …
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 …
What travel costs 6: Dubrovnik, Croatia
Featured photo: Old City of Dubrovnik, walls & Lokrum Island Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 26 August 2015 This is the second country breakdown of our trip to Europe from 22 April to 6 December 2014. What travel costs 4 covered the whole trip. The current article covers our holiday to Croatia immediately on quitting Germany. Adria Adventure, Dubrovnik and the …
What travel costs 5: Germany
Featured photo: Newly sown field near Großenkneten Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 15 August 2015 This is the first country breakdown of our trip to Europe from 22 April to 6 December 2014. What travel costs 4 covered the whole trip. The current article covers our house-sitting in Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) from 25 April to 28 June 2014. …
What travel costs 4: eight months in Europe
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 30 July 2015 Trip to Europe, April to December 2014. Background Denise and I travelled to Europe on 22 April 2014 and returned on the evening of 6 December. Our trip in Europe lasted just less than 8 months (226 days). One of the reasons for going was to undertake some house-sitting internationally and to …
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 2017 Update. From the past articles, you will be beginning to gain an idea of some …
What travel costs 3: Scuba diving in the Philippines 2
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 30 June 2015 Trip to the Philippines, 14 to 29 April 2012 The first trip to the Philippines was so good we planned another one a year later to dive the Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park in the middle of the Sulu Sea. We booked with the Expedition Fleet for 4 days diving. …
Postcard from Vienna: Michaelerplatz sculpture
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 28 June 2015 Other Postcards are from: Boudhanath Stupa, Dubai, Rock of Cashel, Lake Tabourie, Tongariro Crossing, Tupare Garden. Trip to Europe 7 September to 8 December 2007 Going back to Vienna in 2007 seems like a time capsule to me, and it’s not long ago. I’d read John Irving’s first novel Setting free the bears years …
What travel costs 2: Scuba diving in the Philippines 1
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 24 June 2015 Trip to the Philippines, 22 March to 2 April 2011 This was my first trip to the Philippines with my nephew Paul who’d been previously. The trip was for 11 nights. My nephew had briefed me that the hotels were expensive by Asian standards and not to expect too much …
What travel costs 1: Alice Springs
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 7 June 2015 Trip to Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia to walk on the Larapinta Trail and to see Ayer’s Rock, 15 June to 2 July 2013. I was at a dinner the other night and some friends ridiculed me for thinking of providing information on what travel costs, because they say it …
British Food — an appraisal of the middle
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony May 2015 Trip to the UK 16 July to 16 September 2014 In Britain or in far-flung outposts around the world in what either used to be the British Empire or in countries influenced by Britain, one meets the British. And when the conversation turns to food, the Brits inevitably bore you about how …
Food in Chiang Mai 3: Khao Soy
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, January 2013, updated March 2016 Articles in the series on food and restaurants in Chiang Mai are: 1 Akha Tribal Food, 2 Pho Viang Chane, 3 Khao Soy, 4 French & Italian Restaurants, 5 Airport Plaza, 6 2017 Update. Chiang Mai is the second city of Thailand but it is a small city …
In praise of Indian mangoes
Featured photo: Movie poster at Jubilee Hills Check Post, Hyderabad Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, December 2011 They gave me a mango at breakfast in Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand, in the boutique hotel where I was staying. The mango was beautifully presented in Thai style: two halves on the plate with the seed removed. The halves were cut …
House-sitting in northern Germany: Where we live
Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony 14 May 2015 Trip: Europe, April to December 2014. House-sitting near Großenkneten in Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), April to June 2014. Our house is a typical German two-family house, with both upstairs and downstairs. The house is relatively modern with an older section somewhere downstairs. The plan and construction (red …
