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  • Home
  • Destinations
    • England
      • London
      • Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    • Europe
      • Austria
      • Bulgaria
      • Estonia
      • France
        • Paris
      • Germany
      • Iceland
      • Italy
      • Jersey
      • Latvia
      • Norway
      • Portugal
      • Spain
        • Seville
      • Switzerland
      • Ukraine
    • Beyond
      • Africa
        • Botswana
        • Cape Verde
        • Gambia
        • Kenya
        • Morocco
        • Namibia
        • Senegal
        • Tanzania
        • Zimbabwe
      • Americas
        • Belize
        • Canada
        • Chile
          • Rapa Nui
        • Costa Rica
        • Ecuador
          • Galapagos Islands
        • Guatemala
        • Jamaica
        • USA
          • New Mexico
          • New York City
          • Washington State
      • Asia
        • DPRK
        • India
          • Kerala
          • Rajasthan
        • Indochina
          • Cambodia
          • Laos
          • Vietnam
        • Japan
        • Oman
        • Syria
        • United Arab Emirates
        • Uzbekistan
  • Themes
    • Architecture
    • Art
      • Crafts
      • Street art
    • Colour
    • Dark tourism
    • Eco-tourism
    • Food & drink
    • Gardens
    • History
      • Ruins
      • War
    • Landscape
      • Coast & seascapes
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    • Nature and wildlife
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        • The Friendly Friday Challenge: how to join in
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      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
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      • Sunday Stills
      • The Changing Seasons
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        • CBWC
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        • CMMC
    • Challenges archive
      • Bird Weekly
      • Friday’s Foods of the World
      • Just One Person
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
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  • Friendly Friday,  Travel in general

    Travelling through the pages of books

    April 27, 2022 / 40 Comments
    Shelf of travel guide books

    Perhaps the next best thing to travelling is reading about travelling. Whether travelling through the pages of books, browsing internet travel sites, or reading travel blog posts; armchair travelling is a pleasure in itself.

    Carry on reading

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    Large group of teenagers

    My first taste of adventure: a 1970s camping trip

    August 14, 2021
    Small purple blossoms

    Gallery: a bouquet of purple flowers

    August 11, 2021
    Rear of white car

    California dreaming: our first US road trip

    May 23, 2021
  • Travel in general,  Writers' Quotes Wednesday

    Sailing away from the safe harbour: some travel dreams

    February 22, 2022 / 43 Comments
    View of water with small boats and distant hills

    Sometimes people say to me, you’ve travelled to so many places, there can’t be anywhere left that you want to visit. How wrong they are! The world is full of so many amazing sights and there is always somewhere new to tantalise and intrigue.

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    Three large highly decorated buildings around a central square

    Gallery: building in threes

    May 13, 2022
    Mountain scene with caption

    My love of travel: some special moments

    March 14, 2021
    Blue glacier edge

    Travel dreams

    October 16, 2020
  • History,  Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  People,  Travel in general

    Learning through travelling

    January 30, 2022 / 41 Comments
    Simple shop in a wooden shack and toddler in the scruffy lane alongside

    'Try to travel, otherwise you may become racist, and you may end up believing that your skin is the only one to be right' The above is the opening verse, in translation, of the song Viaggiate by Gio Evan, poet and songwriter. A friend posted it on Facebook and for me it sums up everything that is wonderful and important about travelling.

    Carry on reading

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    Large adobe church with white doors and crosses on towers

    Around the world in ten photos: day six

    December 22, 2020
    Row of old shops and cafes

    A stroll around Las Vegas

    October 19, 2021
    Lake with domed structure and birds

    Tales of death in Jaisalmer and beyond

    February 19, 2021
  • Destinations,  My photography

    A year in numbers

    August 30, 2021 / 49 Comments
    Signpost with numbers against a lake backdrop

    A year ago I was at home, and bored with the limits put on our travels by the pandemic. Travel outside the UK was clearly going to be off the agenda for a while yet, so what to do? Maybe this was the perfect time to start a new challenge, one I had been considering for a while. I would launch a blog!

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    Road between graasy fields and woods, leading to mountains

    Gallery: getting away, or, there’s a wonderful world out there!

    July 18, 2021
    Seascape with icebergs and snowy shores

    Travel inspiration – where does it come from?

    August 8, 2021
  • Destinations,  Lens-Artists,  Travel in general

    Travel inspiration – where does it come from?

    August 8, 2021 / 57 Comments
    Seascape with icebergs and snowy shores

    I am often asked where we get our inspiration from when deciding where to travel next. What makes us choose one destination over another, when there are so many places we could go?

    Carry on reading

    Or what about ...?

    Signpost with numbers against a lake backdrop

    A year in numbers

    August 30, 2021
    Road between graasy fields and woods, leading to mountains

    Gallery: getting away, or, there’s a wonderful world out there!

    July 18, 2021
  • Destinations,  Lens-Artists,  Travel galleries

    Gallery: getting away, or, there’s a wonderful world out there!

    July 18, 2021 / 42 Comments
    Road between graasy fields and woods, leading to mountains

    There’s a wonderful world out there, and I can’t wait to be able to travel again to see it all. But while I wait I am lucky to have so many great memories of past trips, and so many photos of them too.

    Carry on reading

    Or what about ...?

    Signpost with numbers against a lake backdrop

    A year in numbers

    August 30, 2021
    Seascape with icebergs and snowy shores

    Travel inspiration – where does it come from?

    August 8, 2021
  • Landscape,  Lens-Artists,  Nature and wildlife,  People,  Travel in general

    My love of travel: some special moments

    March 14, 2021 / 70 Comments
    Mountain scene with caption

    It feels as if I have always loved travelling, but where did that love come from? Not my childhood experiences, for sure, although the seeds may have been sown then. My first holidays were of the ‘bucket and spade’ variety, on the Kent coast within easy reach by train of our London home.

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    Two lions on a sandy river bank

    Gallery: taking a wider view in Botswana

    September 12, 2021
    River with small boats and rocky cliff

    A day on the Nam Ou

    July 3, 2021
    Landscape with old wall on hillside

    Outpost of the Roman Empire, Housesteads

    December 5, 2020
  • History,  People,  Travel in general

    Travelling in the 1930s: a flea market find

    February 13, 2021 / 22 Comments
    Page from old photo album

    In the mid 1930s a young couple set sail on the SS Moldavia with a group of friends, cruising to Lisbon, Madeira and the coast of north Africa on what they termed a ‘proper holiday’. They captured their adventures in photographs which they carefully stuck into an album and labelled. Later they added to the album: photos of a walking holiday in Germany, camping in Devon and more.

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    Two images of narrow city streets

    A walk in Seville’s picturesque Triana district

    December 2, 2021
    Stone circle in a landscape with blue sky and white clouds

    A visit to Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain

    June 21, 2022
    Sepia photo of old houses

    Port Royal, the richest and wickedest city in the world

    May 21, 2021

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Some favourite photos

Man in a turban with fishing nets
Fisherman in Fort Kochi, Kerala
Two elephants in long grass
Okavango elephants
Blue glacier edge
Glacier Grey, Torres del Paine, Chile
Elderly woman in black hat and sunglasses
In Santiago, Chile
Very large statues of North Korean Leaders
Statues of the Great Leaders on Mansudae Hill, Pyongyang
Water reflecting the sky with clouds and low sun
Approaching sunset in the Okavango Delta
Feet of huge metal sculpture, with man standing beside
The feet of the Angel
Large moai with row of more behind
The ‘travelling moai’ and Ahu Tongariki
Man in knitted hat by water, black and white photo
Waiting for the ferry, Banjul
Mountain reflected in a lake
On the road to Dyrholaey
Sunset at Wahiba Sands, Oman
Squirrel with a conker in his mouth
In Walpole Park, Ealing
Silhouette of a man in a gateway
Looking out from Bundi Palace
Blue and pink bird on a dead tree
Lilac-breasted Roller, Chobe NP, Botswana
Buddhist monk in orange robes with mobile phone
Monk at Wat Nong Sikhounmuang, Luang Prabang
Man sleeping in a tuk tuk by a carved stone wall
Tuk tuk driver by the Terrace of the Leper King
Close up of flamingo with head tucked under
Flamingo (Jersey Zoo)
Lady with baskets of fruit sitting by a canal
In Hoi An, Vietnam
Small fishing boat with a man in it, on a large lake
Lake Atitlan
Wet street and two people with bright pink umbrella
Street in Lucca, rainy day – edited

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