Let's Meet For Dinner...

I do enjoy eating out.
As much as I like preparing delicious food in the galley of The Flying Tortoise, the pleasure of finding a new local restaurant with wonderful cuisine and views to equal those that I'm used to, is a delightful experience.
So I thought we, yes, you and I could meet up at The Rock, a little restaurant famous for its seafood and its location.
Zanzibar's 'The Rock' is perched high on a rock on the edge of the Indian Ocean.
At low tide you can walk from the beach to the evidently amazing eating experience without getting your feet wet. I haven't made a reservation yet but let me know if you'd like to come. It's my treat...

The Beautiful Stone Slave Huts Of Bonaire...

It's highly unlikely the slaves that were accommodated in these stone huts with no headroom would have considered their design to be beautiful. And they probably didn't get too much time to appreciate the beautiful views and the stunning beachfront locations of the dwellings they were forced to crawl in and out of.
There's more about them here.
Now restored to almost their original state when they were built, these huts are a poignant reminder of one of the darkest periods in the Caribbean's history...

Have House Will Travel...

The simple answer to the age old location location location problem. Or any old problem really. Like horrible neighbours, the desire to move to sunnier climes, keeping up with the Jonses or just wanting to go on vacation and feeling the need to take everything with you.
Including the kitchen sink...

A Vision Of The Future. A City In A Building...

It's quite a concept. And it's not a new one.
The idea of a futuristic city contained inside a single gigantic building housing a million or more people is nearing reality.
It's not something I'd wish to be part of but in a few year's time, in many parts of the world, the only space available to live will be up above.
Way up above.
There's from the top,
Buckmaster Fuller's Triton Floating City, 1960.
Vertical Urban Sprawl by Jake Murray 2010. Norman Foster's Crystal Island, designed for Moscow, 2007. Roadtown by Edgar Chambless in 1910. The Shimizu Mega-City Pyramid for Tokyo by Dante Bini and David Dimitrie in 2003.
King Gillette's Metropolis Project for the Niagara Falls area, 1894. The Broad Sustainable Building in Hunan, China, due for completion in 2013. And Grant Hamilton's What Are We Coming To concept in 1895.
In case you're thinking of buying some real estate in the future and going up in the world, have a look here and here...

Freedom Camping In New Zealand...

The owner of this house, like so many who live in the suburbs, fed up with his home being stuck on a plot of land with neighbours on all sides, decided to get away from it all.
And take his house with him.
So he bought a very large removal truck and remembering the old saying, never leave home before you've seen the country, went off to do just that.
He knows a thing or two about location location location...

Rustic Dwellings, Secluded Places...

I've just had my first visit for the year over at Cabin Porn, another of my favourite sites.
As usual the folk at Beaver Brook have a delightful display of tiny and not so tiny rustic dwellings in special and secluded places...

This Elderly Chinese Couple Are Freedom Camping In The Middle Of The Motorway...

It wasn't always like this. Duck farmer Luo Baogen and his wife have been living in their house in China's city of Wenling in Zhejiang Province for a long time, and the authorities have built the motorway around the elderly couple's home.
Because they've had to.
It's not that Luo and his wife enjoy living in the fast lane, but they refuse to leave until the government pays them a more generous amount to move.
And the couple are within their rights under The Republic of China's new laws making it illegal to demolish a property without a mutual agreement.
Power to The Little People...
Update. December 1 at 7.45 pm.
The house has now been demolished after Luo and his wife agreed to a compensation offer of 260,000 yuan.

A Tiny Home In A Dumpster...

Wandering as I do around some weird and wonderful neighbourhoods and interesting sites, this tiny home in a dumpster bin caught my eye over at Tiny House Swoon.
It was built by Gregory Kloehn as a bit of a challenge to see how luxurious he could make it. You can see more about it here, and there's a video to take you on a guided tour.
To some it could well be luxury living.
It has a roof and it's weather-proof.
It's got a stainless steel kitchen, an outdoor barbeque, an awning, a toilet of course and will you look at the outdoor shower set-up.
I'm not sure about the location location location but that could change and no home would be complete without a flower garden...