Another new diving review came in today, this one for a visit to the Christ of the Deep statue, sunk off the Florida Keys.
Nothing particularly odd about that, but when I had a look at who had added the post I discovered that the author was an LK Barrowmet also responsible for our reviews of Rio’s Christ the Redeemer and Cochabamba’s Christ of Peace. Makes him look like an expert on Great Statues of Christ doesn’t it.
There are lots of people out there looking for great diving sites - though like surfers they don’t necessarily want to share their own secret coral gardens with the rest of us in case we crowd it out. I get a lot of cards-held-close-to-the-chest responses from our diving experts, but they’re surprisingly forthcoming with sites people already know about… So maybe they’ll warm to us and share a bit more down the line.
On that hopeful note I’d like to welcome to the site Danny Jones who was quick to tell me that: “I’d rather be diving, but telling you about it comes a close second.”. Danny is a PADI dive instructor who has worked in 12 countries and dived in about 40 so hopefully he’ll be spilling his secrets to us in the future, but first he’s reviewed a couple of the classics, Mary’s Place, Wreck Alley and Auau Canyon.
As a post script from yesterdays article on the most romantic places to escape for an amorous summer interlude, here is one for the literal lovers, Honeymoon Beach, contributed by our starry eyed in-office-romantic, Jackie Kochell.
More suggestions are always welcome…
At moment of typing WR has 6237 recommended experiences…
That is a lot to look through. So in an effort to make things easier to find we have decided to write more articles (weekend paper travel supplements-esque.) grouping our experiences for different reasons. At the request of an amorous anonymous friend of mine who keeps asking me where to take his intended, one of the first is about romantic places to escape in the summer time when old stalwarts Paris and Venice are packed to the gills with red, sweating, snapping crowds and Harry’s Bar is bursting at the seams, try our Romantic Summer Escapes
For those of you who spent last Glastonbury in more mud than you thought possible (and considering how much mud there is most years the fact that there could be more mud seemed impossible!) and are looking for another way to get your outdoor music fix, check out our Sounds of Summer - Great Summer Festivals.
One of the great things about working on the website is considering categories you haven’t before. I would say I probably like gardens as much as the next person… I’ve been to Kew several times, it was lovely, and to Canberra’s Floriade, and this year I even went to the Chelsea Flower Show… But talking to our garden experts really gets me enthused about visiting more gardens.
It must be the time of year but World Reviewer has been showing a lot of activity on the garden front in the last week: Donna Dawson has added a few more recommendations to her list and a couple of new gardening experts have joined us, Ted Harper and Emile Harridan. One of Ted’s recommendations was the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, which he also sent me a link to a great time lapse video a friend of his made of the garden’s cherry tree walk. I have attached it to the site - it certainly helped me to understand the Japanese cherry blossom parties - wow and Emile recommended a garden in Tokyo, known for its miniature landscapes as well as its graceful blossoms. If I needed a reason to get outside I think the recent additions to our Best Gardens list would be more than enough…