Photo Essay: Benches With a View
You know the type of bench we’re thinking about: a place where you can sit and clear your head, get balanced, and soak up world in your current travel destination. Well, travel more with a spot sitting on any of these benches with a view in today’s photo essay.
Observatory Hill - Sydney, Australia
The view from Mrs Macquarie’s Chair on the peninsula of the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney is one of the city’s best viewpoints. It was named after the wife of one of the first governors of New South Wales. But don’t miss this hidden spot on Obsevatory Hill – the perfect place to watch the day go by or a sunset fall upon Australia’s largest city. And what an unbeatable view.
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Photo Essay: The Sucatas
Today’s article is by Scott Liddell.
Bank holiday weekends are traditionally opportunities to get away and take a break from normal life. If I told you there was a reasonably cheap way you could use your bank holiday weekend to see some of best cities in Europe, meet some great people and raise a stack of cash for charity you might give it a second thought?
Over the last couple of years I’ve been lucky enough to do this twice. The educational charity Gemin-i.org organise two events each year that make the best possible use of a bank holiday weekend. Sucata Split in May and Sucata Run in August are charity banger rallies across Europe that require to you get a car from less that £250 get sponsored to make it to the finish.
The organises also help out arranging cheap hostel accomodation along the routes so each run can be done with a relatively small budget.
Below are a selection of images from the two excellent weekends I spent in our much beloved bangers. You can read a full account of both runs on the team blog.
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Photo Essay: Neon
Today we tour the some of the world’s best neon. In some (actually, many) of these destinations, the light show is part of the attraction in the first place. Sit back, relax, and enjoy.
Hong Kong
I mentioned that the incredible displays of light after dark where one of the defining features and top things to do in Hong Kong.
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Photo Essay: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and all that Yuletide greetings stuff from the team here at Sharing Travel Experiences. Hopefully you’ll enjoy these round-the-world photos, then go out and enjoy your own special holidays.
Paris, France
the peacefulness is disturbed only by the lone Christmas Tree
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Photo Essay: Great Glaciers
As the season of ice approaches those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, I thought it would be more than appropriate to celebrate one of the most gorgeous features of the season (beyond Christmas lights or snow-capped mountains, of course): ice
Here are some of the world’s most beautiful and glorious glaciers. I’ve been to many of them, and every time I’ve stepped foot on a glacier I am humbled by their size and power. They’re like worlds of their own, completely insulated and separate from the space around them. Grab a hot beverage and enjoy.
Fox Glacier, New Zealand
This photo illustrates the eerie-blue colours you’ll find on a glacier. The Fox Glacier is my favourite as compared to the Franz Josef Glacier, two popular things to do on South Island in New Zealand.
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Photo Essay: Statues
Everyone knows about the world’s classic and iconic statues: Mount Rushmore in America, the Statue of Liberty in New York, The Thinking Man in Paris, The Little Mermaid in Denmark, The Terra Cotta Warriors of Xi’an China, or Manneken Pis in Brussels. But how about some of these more off-beat yet still inspiring statues you can find elsewhere?
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Photo Essay: Boats
Feeling inspired by the shorelines of the Basque Country, today’s photo essay subject is boats and harbours. Once you’ve browsed these photos for inspiration, check out our sailing super specials and get out onto the open waters yourself.
boats in Lake Bled, a charming and romantic area in Slovenia
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Photo Essay: The Ultimate Edinburgh Festival Experience
For those of you who don’t know, I’ve been crazy busy the past few weeks here in Edinburgh soaking up the vibes of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Instead of writing about it, though, I’ve decided the only way to really express this quirky yet amazing event is via photos. The follow pictures hopefully will give you a feel for the diversity and strangeness that is Edinburgh Fringe.
A special thanks to Richard Dyson from Trixta Photography who has given us exclusive rights to use many of his photos, including those of live productions! My photos have the caption “(AH)” and Richard’s have the caption “(RD)” in case you’re curious.
And as an aside… we LOVED all these shows and would recommend all of them!
Just because it’s Fringe doesn’t mean it’s all laughs. 100 Wounded Tears covers difficult topics like cowardice, rape, humiliation… (RD)
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Photo Essay: Patterns
Since it seems my last photo essay, Reflections, was a big hit, I thought we would continue with another theme this month: patterns. I chose these images because of their unique perspective on a particular minute detail; in some cases it’s clear what you’re looking at, but in others it isn’t. In all of them (except for one or two 
) you can’t really tell where the photo was taken.
It’s just a brief reminder when you’re on your travels to open your eyes. The old adage is true – look up, you’ll see more.
The controversial facade of the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Photo Essay: Reflections
I always have folks asking to see more pictures and highlight more images from the photo galleries, so I thought I’d try to do more photo essays like the photo tour of New Zealand. This week I wanted to highlight some photos of water and its reflections; these photos actually inspired a piece I wrote for Bootsnall last month called 8 Great Canal Rides. Enjoy – and if you’ve got an idea for another photo essay, let me know.
Ghent, Belgium
This is consistently a highly-viewed image and one of my favourites. Ghent is such a charming place and the canals are just picture-postcard perfection. This image is the way it is because of the unusual water flow in the canal – there is some disruption at the top but at the bottom the water is quite still. Hence the strange mirror image.
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