After a couple of years of jumping through hoops in order for occasional travel to be possible, things are starting to open up again, so in January I travelled to the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. The idea was to see the iconic Chichén-Itzá, but then get away from the tourist and well known spots and explore some of the ‘real’ […]
At the end of November I spent 4 days in Prague, a city that a few friends have visited and liked and somewhere that’s been on my list for several years. Many miles were walked and that was a great way to see the city. Above is a photo of the very old Charles Bridge; its construction started in 1357 […]
Here are a few photos from my recent trip to Florida. It’s certainly a great escape from the English weather and I look forward to visiting again in the winter. A very interesting day was spent at the Kennedy Space Centre. It’s hard to understand the scale of these rockets, until you see just how small people are compared to […]
Just as the weather was beginning to get cooler, greyer, and darker early back home, I escaped to sunshine, blue skies, and the most turquoise ocean you can imagine. My final destination was to be Florida (where I am now), but as the USA still isn’t allowing us in directly from the UK, I had to endure the hardship of […]
Our final stop on the way back from the Lake District was Salford Quays to meet a friend who was on our photography trip to Namibia. We met for dinner and then went out around Media City to photograph the buildings at sunset.
On our way home from the Lake District we stopped at Liverpool and Salford Quays on the outskirts of Manchester. No first visit to Liverpool is complete without photographing the famous Liver Building. And of course, the Fab Four. I liked this statue below as it’s so lifelike. It’s of Captain ‘FJ’ Johnny Walker, who commanded the most successful anti-submarine […]
Well, Covid really messed up my international travel plans again earlier this year. I had to postpone a Costa Rica photography trip, a tiger safari in India (which was already postponed from last year) and my Namibia photo trip (now postponed three times!!). So, nowhere nearly as exotic as my usual posts, but here’s a selection of images from British […]
After several cancelled flights, we finally made it to the island of Zanzibar for a few days of complete contrast to the safari. I had intended to go to a forest where red colobus monkeys live as I hadn’t seen them before, but had a pleasant surprise to discover a troupe roaming in the hotel grounds. A couple of times […]
The last day of safari was spent in Tarangire national park before heading back to Kilimanjaro after lunch for an overnight stay before flying on to Zanzibar. Tarangire has many baobab trees, which are the giants in Africa and can live for up to 600 years. We spotted a small group of Waterbuck, which are very distinctive especially when viewed […]
An early morning and cool start saw us heading down into the Ngorongoro crater, a place that I’d heard of for many years. It’s an UNESCO World Heritage Site and the world’s largest inactive, unbroken and unfilled volcanic caldera. Absolutely nothing had prepared me for just how vast it is however. When it was a volcano it’s thought to have […]