Another stamp in the passport this week, with a trip to Greenland ( population a tiny 57,564), to check out some of the homes there.  According to some research I found, the traditional colours for houses are a mid green, a dark sky blue, canary yellow, and a burgundy red. The colour-coding dates back to largely pre-literate [...]

I have an overwhelming desire to get to Cuba and photograph some of the beautiful homes there. However, there’s some talented Flickr members who’ve beat me to it… Robin Thom Ponomo ***Ellen*** d.zanzinger Henk & Anna Henk & Anna Robin Thom Sly Robin Thom

Today’s HouseAHolic on Holiday is pure eye-candy and provided thanks – as usual – to the talented Flickr community. For more information on the images or their photographers, click the links below. Thennet SBA73 FFgoatee FFgoatee SBA73 BelCan75 George*50 Jeri Peier BlueDjinn public oberberg gerag

I’ve decided to take a  break from HouseAHolic holidays in the third world today and head north to Scotland. I grew up in Tasmania, possibly the most ridiculously long way from Scotland imaginable while still staying on Earth, but my Mother (a Scot) took us there every couple of years for holidays.  All those early treks around run-down [...]

This week, there’s a Rwandan stamp in the HouseAHolic passport. Searching for these images shows that Rwanda is still very much in repair mode after the genocide in the mid-nineties. But it’s a beautiful country and is increasingly attracting tourists keen to see the mountains, wildlife and meet some of the people who’ve survived so [...]

Welcome to the latest HouseAHolic feature, HouseAHolic on Holidays. This feature is about picking a country each week and exploring some of the homes from there, as posted by the ever-talented users of Flickr. This week, we’re off to Suriname – purely because I hadn’t heard of it until a year or so ago, when [...]