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Norfolk Island Postcard

In Travel, Australia by tony5 Comments

 Featured Image: Vista to Bird Rock from Captain Cook Monument   Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 27 July 2025 My postcard series is idiosyncratic. The postcards are short descriptions of travel and places, but there is no theme or rhyme or reason. They are short snippets about things that you might not have heard about or experienced otherwise. The series …

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Madagascar Wildlife Adventure 2

In Travel, Madagascar by tony2 Comments

 Featured Image: Tails-aloft beside the Berenty Spiny Forest, Berenty Private Reserve   Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony, 23 March 2025 Madagascar Wildlife Adventure: Part 2 Ankarafantsika, Berenty, Andasibe-Mantadia Why go to Madagascar? Look at any map of Africa and the eye is drawn to down south to this big island off the east coast, Madagascar. What is it? Geographic isolation …

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Chinese Ceramics Treasures

In Travel, Taiwan, Country by tonyLeave a Comment

Featured Image: Detail from Vase with wucai polychrome decoration of one hundred deer motif, Wanlai reign, Ming dynasty 1573-1620.   Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  1 October 2024 My first visit to Taiwan was permeated with ignorance, which stimulated me to write articles because Taiwan fascinated me in unusual ways. The first article First Visit to Taiwan summarised what I …

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Snail Lane Taiwan

In Travel, Art, Asia, Taiwan by tony2 Comments

Featured Image: A colourful snail from Snail Lane, Tainan, Taiwan   Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  12 August 2024 My first visit to Taiwan was permeated with ignorance, which stimulated me to write articles because Taiwan fascinated me in unusual ways. The first article First Visit to Taiwan summarised what I thought I discovered. The second article, though about Snail …

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Making Rubber Bands in Burma

In Travel, Burma by tony6 Comments

Featured Image: Fallow Fields Outside the Weaving Village on Bilu Island Breadtag Sagas ©: Author Tony,  1 August 2019 Making Rubber Bands near Mawlamyine, Burma, February 2017 By the old Moulmein pagoda lookin’ lazy at the sea… wrote Rudyard Kipling on his 1889 visit. Introduction Travelfish contends not much has changed from Kipling and apart from the traffic they are partly …