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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
        • Colombia
        • 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
        • Nepal
        • 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
      • Deserts
      • Mountains
      • Rivers
    • Nature and wildlife
      • Animals
      • Birds
      • Plants
        • Flowers
        • Trees, forests and woodland
    • People
      • Culture & tradition
      • Street photography
    • Travel in general
  • Photo galleries
    • Themed galleries
    • Travel galleries
  • Postcards from the road
  • Challenges
    • Photography challenges
      • Just One Person
      • Lens-Artists
      • Mid-week Monochrome
      • Monochrome Madness
      • Nature Photo Challenge
      • One Word Sunday
      • Photographing Public Art
      • Pick a Word
      • Squares
      • Sunday Stills
      • The Changing Seasons
      • Words of Wisdom
      • Cee’s challenges
        • CBWC
        • CFFC
        • CMMC
    • General challenges
      • Monday walks
      • Writers’ Quotes Wednesday
    • Challenges archive
      • Bird Weekly
      • Friendly Friday
        • The Friendly Friday Challenge: how to join in
      • Friday’s Foods of the World
      • Life in Colour
      • One-to-Three
      • Ten photos
      • Thursday Trios
      • Thursday Doors
  • About me
    • Contact me
    • ‘Always Write’ interview
    • My love of travel
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      • Photographic techniques
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  • Lens-Artists,  My photography,  Photographic techniques,  Themed galleries,  Travel in general

    Gallery: the roads I take

    March 12, 2023 / 66 Comments
    Road through a mountain pass

    It’s only eighteen months since Anne asked us to define our ‘photography groove’. My answer then was travel photography, and now that John asks much the same question about our favourite style or genre, the road we most often take, my answer remains the same.

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    Giraffe eating

    Giraffe Manor: getting up close and personal

    January 11, 2021

    Seen better days: the ruined villages of Oman

    October 2, 2021
    Soft focus image of a dramatic flower

    Gallery: soft orchids from Colombia

    February 22, 2023
  • Sunday Stills,  Travel in general,  Writers' Quotes Wednesday

    My travel year in review, 2022

    January 2, 2023 / 70 Comments
    Collage of travel photos

    All of us who love to travel, and are fortunate enough to be able to do so, will I hope be looking back on a year filled with both familiar and foreign places. For most of us, 2022 was the year in which we began to feel comfortable travelling again. When, despite a few new forms to fill in and masks to be worn, perhaps reluctantly, on planes, the world opened up again and we could scratch that travel itch, relieve that homesickness ‘for the places we have never known’.

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    Dried fruit and nuts displayed with price tags

    Gallery: tenderly love the apricots

    September 15, 2022
    Large heron on top of a mangrove tree

    Gallery: the birds of the Gambia

    February 22, 2021
    Two cups of coffee

    Gallery: cosy coffee breaks around the world

    November 30, 2021
  • Lens-Artists,  Themed galleries,  Travel in general

    Gallery: travel photography is my ‘groove’

    August 8, 2022 / 62 Comments
    Two young Buddhist monks in robes, carrying umbrellas

    For those of us who grew up in the sixties, groovy was the feeling we all aspired to. Groovy was exciting, fun, cool (another sixties word!) Too young to really be part of hippy culture, it nevertheless influenced my tastes in fashion and music. Getting ‘in the groove’ was where I wanted to be, even if as a schoolgirl I was probably very far from being so!

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    Rocky foreshore and distant cliffs

    Gallery: not just any day!

    November 1, 2021
    Large illuminated reindeer model

    Celebrating Christmas in London and (a little way) beyond

    December 6, 2021
    Stone statue on a plinth on a grassy hillside

    Admiral Lord Collingwood, a forgotten hero

    April 25, 2021
  • 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.

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    Cobbled pavement with black stones depicting a castle

    Gallery: underfoot in the Algarve

    April 12, 2022
    Snow scene with pine trees and mountain

    Gallery: a snowy walk in Paradise

    November 21, 2020
    Wartime sign about spies

    Cracking the code at Bletchley Park

    June 19, 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
    Seascape with icebergs and snowy shores

    Travel inspiration – where does it come from?

    August 8, 2021
    Large group of people with flags and posters

    Precious moments at Virtual Tourist Euromeets

    December 14, 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.

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    Elegant stone buildings and a large church with a lawn

    A visit to King’s College Chapel, Cambridge

    July 21, 2022
    Low chairs around a table, dark wood wall units

    Welcome to the 1980s in Bulgaria

    October 20, 2022
    Yellow Victorian house

    Gallery: the Painted Ladies of Cape May

    October 10, 2020
  • 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?

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    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.

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    Or what about ...?

    Seascape with icebergs and snowy shores

    Travel inspiration – where does it come from?

    August 8, 2021
    Signpost with numbers against a lake backdrop

    A year in numbers

    August 30, 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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    Savannah landscape under blue sky

    A walk on Palm Island: hippos, hogs and crocs

    May 4, 2021
    Water reflecting the sky with clouds and low sun

    The sun will come out tomorrow (and I will photograph it)

    November 9, 2020
    Rough wooden fence

    What a difference a day makes

    February 28, 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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