My first trip away in recent years was to the Dominican Republic in 2006. A friend suggested an all-inclusive trip somewhere, and we managed to get a good deal on a package for a two-week holiday. We stayed in Puerto Plata in the north of the Island. The beaches are not as sandy as in […]

I visited Stonehenge ten years ago on my birthday (April 2007). This year, in 2017 my parents again asked me, what I would like do on my birthday. And again I said i would like to visit Stonehenge. We made the thirty minute drive to the henge from their home. I was taken a back […]

In 2007 armed with my new digital camera (Canon EOS 400d), I set off one autumn evening with my dad to drive the 27 miles, from Dorset where my parents live into Wiltshire. This was not only an excuse to try out my new camera but I felt the start of the adventure I had […]

My first trip away this year was in January, to Carcassonne, France. I had decided that I could not feasibly take any more photographs of Liverpool and needed to book flights, and I had always wanted to see Carcassonne. I was talking with my sister about the trip and she reminded me that our aunt […]

It is disputed whether the Citadel of Mont Saint Michel, is in Normandy or Britany. When visiting my sister in the July of 2013, we decided to take a road trip there. We set out early in the morning around 7am and the drive took nearly 4 hours, from Swiss Normandy where my sister lives. […]

We took a road trip to Lumbini, setting off at dusk leaving Kathmandu to huge traffic jams which held us up for three hours or more. We arrived in Lumbini, at around four in the morning. after quite a scary taxi ride in heavy rain covering the two hundred kilometers from Kathmandu. We then had […]

In 2007 I bought a ticket to Kathmandu, in Nepal, flying from Manchester airport via Dubai to Nepal. I knew nobody there and I was travelling on my own, but for me it was important to take this step into the unknown. When i arrived i stayed in a hotel called the Thamel Guest House, […]

Durbar Square, Kathmandu Durbar Square, holds the palaces of the Malla and Shah kings who ruled over the city. Along with these palaces, the square also surrounds quadrangles revealing courtyards and temples. The square is presently known as Hanuman Dhoka, a name derived from the statue of Hanuman, the monkey devotee of Lord Ram, near […]

I’ve been to Nepal for another adventure. On the 10th December 2012 I caught the long haul flight to Kathmandu, from Manchester airport; the flight took nearly 24 hrs. The flight time is actually only 13 hours to Kathmandu, but there was a long stop over in Abu Dhabi. I was flying to Nepal to […]

I went to Nepal in 2007 with the intention of trying the Everest base camp trek. Mainly due to the circumstances of the weather that year the flights to Lukla were rained off. I’ve been to Nepal several times since, but on each occasion there was some reason or another why the base camp trek […]

Kathmandu is one of the Coolest cities on the face of the Earth…photos from the start of my visit in 2016

“Kathmandu is alive, vibrant, magical a living city. I have never know a more colourfully textured, rich and aromatic place. To give it it’s due, Kathmandu is a very busy place. Everybody seems either constantly on the move, or quite conversely – sitting through the heat of the midday sun. It is a peaceful city […]

Last autumn, I had the opportunity of visiting a friend in Amsterdam. The weather was really changeable, one moment there were showers lasting only a few minutes and then the next would be sunshine. My friend assured me this was typical of Amsterdam in the autumn. I have been to this city many times over […]

In the December of 2018, I set off for Peru – this had been a long time ambition for me; something which had been on my bucket-list for many years. I flew via Mexico city, to Lima, with a short layover there. I arrived into Jorge Chávez international airport, in the mid-afternoon. Coming out of […]

In 2018, i had cause to visit Poland – I was with a friend called Ryszard, who was Polish, and he from a place called Olszstyn, which is where we were visiting. Olszstyn, is known for its Lakes and is said to be the Lake district of Poland. Olszstyn is a pretty town; some of […]

In the September of 2011, I headed up to the Highlands to wild camp and hike in the wilderness there. After a week on the mainland at the Cape wrath I caught the ferry and headed over to the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. I caught the bus out to Callanish, a small […]

Just recently, I flew to Malaga with a friend and we transferred to Granada by bus. I then spent a week in Granada photographing the city and the Al Hambra; with its imposing walls. What lay outside these walls was a beautiful and vibrant city with a lot of atmosphere. The temperatures were some days […]

There is no reference to the Alhambra as being a residence of kings, until the 13th century, even though a fortress had existed since the 9th century. The first kings of Granada, the Zirites, had their castles and palaces on the hills of the Albaicin, and nothing remains of them. The Nasrites were the emirs […]

A night visit to the Alhambra We waited patiently as the sun set over the Alhambra. As the light faded into the west, the sun dipping down below the horizon, spreading shadows across the walls of this majestic palace. The security man, lifted the barrier and we entered; for our night visit to the Alhambra….

Just recently I have been reediting some of my photos from my trip to Nevada in 2014. I went to stay with a friend in Las Vegas, and to attend among other things a Powwow put on by the Paiute Nation at the Reservation at Snow Mountain. Driving away from the Powwow we went through […]

Several years ago I had the opportunity to visit a friend living in Las Vegas. I had many adventures during the time that I was there, but perhaps the highlight of the trip was sleeping in the Nevada desert at Key-hole Canyon. It is a sacred site to the indigenous of that area and the […]

The Hoover Dam is situated on the border between the States of Nevada and Arizona. It is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado river. On the day I visited the temperatures were nearly 102 degrees – the baking sun reflecting off the concrete structure making it seem even hotter… It […]

A few weeks ago I was fortunate enough to be able to attended the Snow Mountain Paiute Annual Pow wow 2014. I was visiting a friend in Las Vegas. Part of my reason for the trip, certainly the timing, was that the Annual Paiute Pow Wow was being held just north of Las Vegas, in […]