I write about my life: experience, memories and some photography.
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A bit more timely this one and it seemed for most of the month that this would have been one of my photos from Bruges (click here for that album) but at the last minute it had to be Alex…
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2016: not a totally bad year
I’ve set a precedent with reviews of the year in 2013, 2014 1nd 2015 so here’s 2016. To some extent it’s been a year like the others: some sadness but so far not too much, some successes and some enjoyment.…
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Reflections on Xmas dinners past
This year we’re enjoying Xmas at Alex and Clare’s house. That’s the third year when we’ve had Xmas dinner with them and it got me thinking about the journey that I’ve taken in terms of my Xmas dinners.
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Nov 16: photo of the month
I’m still in catch up mode but here’s the photo from November and it’s a cliche. I think I take this photo every year and its leaves and berries from the Rowan at the front of the house, fist frost…
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Oct 16: photo of the month
Oops this is a bit late. Not sure why, no good reasons. This is Ragussa in Sicily on our walk down to the old town on the last evening of our recent holiday. I took this with my Sony SLT-A58…
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Grandparents and how they define you
There was a lady on the radio talking about grandparents. The point was of course that they were a mixed bunch and that’s what defined her: a mix of four different cultural connections. That got me thinking. How do my…
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5 memorable railway journeys
It seems like a truism that everybody likes trains. Maybe not commuter type trains but long distance ones that take you on a journey. For some reason people don’t really like buses; maybe it’s because buses get stuck in traffic.
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Sep 16: photo of the month
The National Botanic Garden of Wales in Carmarthen is a quite magical place with quiet water, the world’s largest single-spanned glasshouse and Paxton’s Tower, framed by ‘pi’ by Rawleigh Clay, in the distance.
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My list of five hotels
I stayed at the RAF Club in London this week. The location is super, on Piccadilly at the Hyde Park Corner end and overlooking Green Park, it’s steeped in RAF culture, my room, albeit a single, ticked all the boxes…
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Tour guides I have loved and not …
We’ve only been taking package tours since about 1998 when we went with Travel Editions to Hidden Italy. We were based in Padua and I seem to remember it was early in the year and that the weather was not…
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