For the Photographers

jukkatolppi photography a very simple blog as far as design goes, but the photography is brilliant.

As you can see, simple ideas captured beautifully.

Brilliant Handcrafts

Here's a sample

Altered Alchemy is a brilliant blog. I have known the author and crafter for some years; although, with the Google fiasco of my Blogspot blogs and account all disappearing, we lost contact.

Yesterday I found her blog again. It's changed, the style of her blog is wonderful, but her craft seems to have matured, it's awesome.

Luthien Thye is a truly remarkable person, which is reflected in her skills, a far cry from beginning life as a professional.

I can only suggest that you have a look and judge for yourself.

Ex-pat in Rio de Janeiro

Eat Rio is a great look at Rio de Janeiro from an Englishman's point of view.

Melzinho, literally 'little honey' image: Eat Rio

I am an ex-pat in Rio, but I look from a different angle and I find Tom's view refreshingly informative about life in this city of 12 million people. He talks about small things that I have overlooked like melzinho and how important it is on long journeys.

Blurb from his 'about': My name is Tom Le Mesurier. Originally from England, I travelled around quite a bit and am now settled in Rio. I enjoy food, drink and over-indulgence of all kinds.

If you want a good read, then definitely check this one out.

A New, but Prolific Blogger

Fractal Tree

Tony's Posts of Hypnotic Suggestion is a new blog, by admission in his latest post only 29 weeks old; in fact he hadn't read a blog until three months ago. All of which makes the quality of his posts even more dramatic. The posts are long, thoughtful and well worded, but appear to have a level of spontaneity about them.

The posts are varied, not doing random, red wine hiccups, Cataluña, Quantum Determinism, gate-crashing cells, slaps in the face by wet kippers and many other unique topics; all of which keep you wanting to read more.

In fact I am, at the moment, at a loss as to how to characterise this blog, what heading to put it under. But don't worry, that'll come to me.

As Tony is such a new blogger, this is the ideal place to welcome him to the blogosphere. While the Cafe is still in its infancy, my previous blog had quite a good readership, I am hopeful this version will attract a similar following and therefore add more readers to the blogs presented.

I've decided to park it under Niche Blogs in Library 1 at the moment.

Two Travel Blogs

The first is An Englishman in Italy, An Englishman, his Sicilian wife and an Italian / English Dictionary, which is all pretty self explanatory.

His last two posts are on Marmite, a challenge issued by the next blogger and a Red Cross parcel from Blighty that has all the necessary items for an Englishman to surive. I wish someone would send me one of those...

You will also find things like this:

His first attempt at growing wine trees.

The next blog, I'm not sure if they are ex-pats yet, but describes the adventures in buying a home away from Blighty.






Our Adventure in Croatia

"Having lived most of our lives in a chaotic, cosmopolitan, exciting, attractive, great European capital city like London, we often wondered what if we could own a property abroad, where we could spend lots of holidays and “quality time” in a warmer climate, where the sky is not always grey and overcast." - From the About page.

Stories cover adventures with policemen, taxi drivers and Google's street view car, so there's plenty to read here. 

That's their house, the one with the red shutters and the washing outside.

Both blogs well worth reading. 

A blog about drinks

boydrinksworld is a blog about drinks. It's an in depth look at all sorts, well written and often humurous. It looks at drinks from the side, the side we don't often think about.

"Gentlemen of a century ago expressed their identity through the gentlemanly arts.  Drinking and making cocktails for friends is to me part and parcel of the expressing the gentlemanly arts."

If you like foodie photos

Cool blog found.

BunnyandPorkBelly

life is always sweeter and yummier through a lens

Lots of food and restaurant photos from around the Boston area, and some further afield. The photos are quality, according to Bunny, not always the food.

One of her fab photos from Sushi Island...

Image credit: bunnyandporkbelly