After visiting Yosemite we headed back to San Francisco in order to drive down the scenic Highway 1. Once again the weather was on our side and we had glorious sunshine for the duration of the trip. First stop was a small town. We drove past a very typical shaped barn somewhere in the Californian countryside and stopped purely to […]
I’ve ticked another place off my bucket list, and Yosemite was as stunningly beautiful as I’d imagined. We had read many times to expect queues of up to 3 hours to get in, but we went on 3 consecutive days and didn’t spend more than 10 minutes queuing each time. From rivers tumbling over boulders to vast meadows. Endless vistas […]
California is not somewhere I’d really associated with stunning scenery, but that just goes to show how little I knew about it. There were a few stops along the way to and from Lake Tahoe, just because we drove past something that was crying out to be photographed. I’m drawn to tumbledown (or on the verge of) shacks for photographic […]
I’d heard great things about the city of San Francisco and it had been ‘on my list’ for some years. A 3 day stay there was to be the start of a road trip and I did absolutely love the city despite a very bad experience on the first day. We had parked at the Palace of Fine Arts and […]
I didn’t think I’d be able to do any blog posts from my most recent trip as I thought I’d had my cabin baggage stolen, which contained my camera, back up disk ,laptop, and other equipment. A very stressful 3 weeks later I was informed that it was found at Gatwick airport! A 7 hour round trip ensued to retrieve […]
At the end of March/beginning of April I spent a week in Santorini. The flights were cheap from Bristol airport and a fabulous AirBnb in one of the best spots on the island wasn’t expensive either. It was a fantastic time to go. No crowds. No unbearable heat. And not as expensive as it would be in the height of […]
On the way back from New Orleans we dropped down the West coast of Florida and spent a couple of days in Naples as some friends were also escaping the English winter and spending a month there. We enjoyed a spectacular sunset on our first evening as you can see above. The next day there was a one day car […]
Apart from the obvious tourist part of New Orleans that everyone has seen in films and photographs I had no idea what else to expect there. The central area and famous Bourbon Street was exactly as I imagined it to be, but a lot of the buildings and roads are in a pretty poor state of repair and N.O seems […]
I’ve wanted to visit New Orleans for some years, so straight after landing back from Mexico we got on the road and started a road trip from Orlando. The intention was to drive for no more than 3 hours maximum each day, and avoid the major highway as much as possible, thereby seeing some of the interesting places along the […]
Here’s a selection of images I took in January whilst in Florida. It was fantastic to escape the English winter for a few weeks 🙂 Photographing birds is not my strong point but I’m reasonably happy with these few. This Great Egret took several minutes turning this fish around in its beak until it was at the right angle to […]