Photographs of the Week: Boats of Halong Bay

Kayaking and the water have been dominating my thoughts recently. I’ve been having a blast with mine and so boats felt like a natural subject for this week. Halong Bay remains the great disappointment in my travel life. When I planned my trip it was to be my last stop in Asia and intended to […]

Finding a new pastime

Summer weather has finally arrived here on the rock. We’ve had some glorious sunshine over the last couple of weeks and it has helped me keep a couple of promises I made to myself last year. The first promise was that following last years summer write-off due to my back problems, that I would try […]

On the Canals

I’ve just come back from a couple of hours out on the canals checking out this years Festival of Lights art installations. Happily this year I was again able to book with the guides who took me around the first time I visited. They have an electric boat, take their time and educate you both […]

Gallery: Amsterdam in Black and White

I tend not to return to places that I’ve visited because there are far too many other places that I’ve yet to visit. One exception to this rule is Amsterdam, a city that I fell in love with when I first went in December 2016. For Christmas week in 2017 I returned to a very […]

Gallery: Norway

Tromso to Bergen – Timelaspse

A timelapse shot over three days as I travelled from Tromso to Bergen

OK, I’ll finally admit they exist

Blink and you’ll miss it. I’d literally travelled to the the opposite ends of the Earth in search of sighting a whale. Iceland, New Zealand and finally the latest attempt in Sri Lanka. Hours and hours in choppy seas with people throwing up all around me when finally it happened.

Felucca on the Nile

Late afternoon on the Nile in Luxor.

Rock the boat, don’t rock the boat baby!

I’d never seen so many sick people in one place as when I went whale watching.There must have been 40 people on the boat. Of those I’d say that there were about 6 of us that weren’t throwing up all over the place.Seriously, it was bad. I got absolutely soaked through as I had to […]