The Olympics In Photos Part 2

Here’s Part 2 of the Olympics in photos series. This Part includes pictures of my favourite London Landmark Tower Bridge, as well as friend of the blog Ben’s work

POTW - Moon Shapes 6ths Olympic Ring

Here is this weeks photo of the week. A brilliant photograph of the moon forming a 6th Olympic ring, taken at Tower Bridge.

The Eastern Teahouse Scam and a Day Eating Bugs

For many travellers going to visit East Asia, a lot of online research prior explains countless scams where locals will attempt to swindle tourists out of their cash.

Geneva - Sophisticated Charm

Geneva is a busy commercial city and is situated on Lake Geneva. This beautiful city is renowned world-wide as the chief diplomatic center for many international government organizations.

The city has an air of authority. Important international headquarters like International Labor Organization, International Committee of the Red Cross, United Nations, World Meteorological Organization, and World Trade Organization conduct supreme business here.

Waving The Flag

This Week Travelling Blogger meet a guy by the name of Ben. Ben is an artist who draws flags on the floor in chalk. I know your thinking this is a strange concept well I thought so too, until I started speaking to Ben about how the art brings all the tourists and residents passing by, together.

The Olympics in Photos

Over the next 3 weeks we will be uploading some images from around London during the Olympics. Here we go with the first set of photos enjoy!

10 Tallest Buildings in the World

10. International Commerce Center

Height: 484.0 m (1,587.9 ft)

Floor count: 108

previously known as Union Square Phase 7, the International Commerce Centre is part of the Union Square project on the Kowloon peninsula which is situated across from Hong Kong Island. The ICC building stands at one end of Victoria Harbour is located across the harbour on Hong Kong Island. The International Commerce Centre will include a Ritz-Carlton hotel that is expected to be the largest hotel in the world.

Hard Rock Calling 2012 Review

Following up on the recent blog post I wrote regarding smaller festivals I decided to go to the Friday of Hard Rock Calling in London’s Hyde park.

Hitch Hiking

This is a story about the time me and a friend got lost in Beijing and hitch hiked our way out.

It was a normal Tuesday morning and me and a friend, [let’s call him T for now] decided that we would visit the ancient summer palace. We found out with our local sightseeing maps that the summer palace was actually split between the old summer palace, and the new summer palace. Naturally we decided to go and visit the old summer palace first.