Cobalt Coast

Welcome to our first blogged holiday adventure. We are excited as we anticipate our trek along the lovely Northwest Coast in our marvelous Chevey Cobalt (not all holidays can involve a convertible!).From a restored 1914 guest house to overly flowered B&Bs ...

... to count a dozen different colours of paint, all fading together on the highest parts of the wall: yellow, ochre, brick, blood, cobalt, turquoise. The national colour of Mexico. And the scent of Mexico is a similar blend: jasmine, dog piss, cilantro, ...

... the line was. We walked over to the Palace of Fine Arts and I shot some night photos with my tripod, the sky still a cobalt blue. We wandered through Parque Alameda again, quite busy by now, stopping to buy a purple, Cinderella balloon for Sophia and an ...

... a few. One of the night dives was over a giant clam bed, where the clams are around 1 metre long and have the most brilliant cobalt blue centre. Although nobody knows how old the clams are, the dive team reckon they are around 70! We also came across a ...

... we told them we were walking they gratefully joined us. Fridas house is in a lovely part of the city and is painted a vibrant cobalt blue. Inside there is a good collection of her works, plus lots of her personal effects. Her studio is set up exactly as ...

... Kahlo Museum in Coyoacan, where the surrealist artist was born and lived her bohemian life with muralist husband Diego Rivera. Painted cobalt blue from the outside, her house has a central garden filled with tropical plants and primitive statues that she ...

... this time around. But having got to Coyoacán I felt it would have been senseless not to do so, especially once I saw the dazzling cobalt blue walls of the Casa Azul and remembered how much I'd liked it the first time. The museum is small, and at 55 ...

... them, after a quick discussion with Eti as we both desperately try and remember our school chemistry we diced its is from copper and cobalt – no idea if we are correct. I take far too many pictures, memory is so cheap and I will delete probably ...

... .  It is stunning at the moment.  In winter it is a steely blue but in summer it changes to the most incredible cobalt blue colour (which also has something to do with the limestone) and you just can't help staring at it whenever you pass ...

... and began on the scenic drive around the lake. We stopped at the lookout and braved the wind for a few pictures - it wasn't cobalt blue, as promised in the summertime, but it certainly wasn't an unattractive grey either. As you looked around the rim, you ...

... to the point where most of the street names read like a table of chemical elements. You find not only Silver St. and Cobalt St. but also Bromide, Chloride, Oxide, Iodine, etc. The surrounding area is so desolate and other worldly that it was chosen as ...

... collect our hire car - Enterprise were expensive we thought for a one-way but they were actually the cheapest! We ended up with a Chevy Cobalt, which wasn't too huge (like a lot of cars in the US) so we were pretty happy.  So we ...

... the crashing surf just beyond the palm trees...I believe I'm out of reach of the big waves and should be pretty well protected from any rain.  But in a pinch if I really need it, there's always the Chevy Cobalt waiting in the parking ...

... Cobalt and once with a Subaru Imprezza. Cheap cars are not what they used to be - they are so much better. The Chevy Cobalt drives great while the Subaru Imprezza is a "rocket" (that must be kept in context as coming from a retired ...

... of the airport at Kahului.   I had just hit the sidewalk in front of the airport when up rolled a bright red Chevy Cobalt with a smiling Barbara at the wheel. Now that was a turn of events I had not anticipated.   The time for ...

... plane proceeds along the coast to the town of Hilo . Within a short time of our arrival, we had picked up a Chevrolet Cobalt from Budget Car Rentals and we were on our way to the hotel. The Chevy Cobalt turned out to be an excellent ...

... as the towns water supply.  The lake is so-called as during December to March the lake has a vibrant cobalt blue colour (before turning a colder grey-blue during the colder months).  When we got there we were happy to be told ...

Ever dream of spending a warm summer day in the cobalt blue sea of the Mediterranean. Just off the coast of Naples and Salerno, between Cape Miseno and Amalfi, a great rock soars like a dream lost in the cobalt blue sea that surrounds it. This ...

...  The medina in Fez was the oldest part of Fez.  At the entrance of the Medina was a large archway.  The outside was cobalt blue, which is the color of Fez.  It is often referred to as Fez blue.  On the other side of the archway ...

... were going to be put on a plane live en route to Taiwan by the end of that day! We visited the stunning cobalt Blue Lake in Mount Gambier, the southeast of South Australia's moderately uninspiring commercial centre. Heading inland and closer to the ...

... Ocean Road had its moments but you can't beat driving under a canopy of forest trees with the spectacle of a sunshine-enhanced cobalt sea studded with islands appearing regularly to our right. It was a real driver's drive and we were now regretting not ...