Bird’s Eye: We start with the best of Google Street view, the most interesting images to get recorded when the googlemobile rolled up that street. Then we look at an amazing Dutch machine that prints a brick road out as it goes by (hotly pursued by the googlemobile, no doubt). Sometimes icy streets have problems, (as our Antarctic driver learned), or the Cambodian hotels aren’t up to snuff, so we visit the Pushkar camel festival, probably the best place in the world to get yourself a really good deal on a slightly used camel. We end with the Guardian’s Travel Photographer of the Year excerpts.
* Best of Google Street Views Jon Rafman Nine eyes
Brick roads are beautiful and durable, but we don’t see them too often due to the effort it takes to produce them. What once was a labor-intensive, back-breaking job has now become a snap with this automatic Dutch paver laying machine, called the Tiger-Stone. The device rolls out a beautiful and sustainable hardscape, creating an instant road anywhere it travels. While the process may look magical, the secret lies in a smartly designed gravity-based system.
