One of the added bonuses of a Chamonix Season Lift Pass, is the chance to discover three other winter resorts in Haute-Savoie, so decided I’d like to explore Evasion Mont Blanc, a series of linked resorts including St Gervais, Megeve, Combloux and La Giettaz. In all 445 km of pistes. [...]
A photo essay of the Udal Peninsula on North Uist, Western Isles, Scotland.
There are a lot of widely held views built on hearsay and misinformation. The deeper I look, the more complicated the story seems to get. One of my aims is to educate myself on travel environmental issues. Then to share my findings on this site and hopefully start a discussion [...]
Street art Last week I visited the Ixelles Museum here in Brussels before their exhibition on Street Art closed and is replaced by a Dubuffet exhibition. Bonom was featured heavily, with insights into how he plans his pieces. The photo above shows a spider on a concrete building by Chapelle [...]
Why is it so many people aspire to fly in First Class, sleep in Five Star hotels (or even Seven Star hotels) and eat in Michelin Three Star restaurants? Don’t they know that it is very poor value for money? That you can sleep just as well in a £29 [...]
The Llangollen canal between Llantysilio and Chirk is the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in the United Kingdom than spans two countries. The listed section covers a distance of 18 kilometres and includes two aqueducts spanning deep valleys, as well as two tunnels. It was built between 1793 and 1808 [...]
There are many music festivals in Belgium from big free festivals to the charged ones such as Rock Werchter, Europe’s best music festival.
The main story for Holy Island can be found as “On the trail of a Welsh Asterix” on VisitBritain’s Superblog. But here is a photo essay of some of the sights from the post and further afield on Anglesey.
Leaving the river Reuss I headed into the into the streets of the old town. I’ll just let the photos tell the story. It’s a photo essay after all. If you want to read up about Lucerne. Look up Wikipedia or Wikitravel. If you have written a blog post on [...]
Lake Annecy, France Lake Annecy is one of the cleanest lakes in France. It is favoured by fishermen, swimmers and many different types of water sports, ranging from hiring pedalos to wakeboarding. Enough said, I’ll stop writing and let start meditating.
Jachthuis St.-Hubertus Though in name a hunting lodge, it is actually a castle built by Berlage in the shape of a pair of antlers. Many things about the building has symbolism linked to the legend of St Hubert, the patron saint of hunters. Helene Kröller-Müller, the founder of the world [...]
This is a companion post to The Antrim Coast: Mythical Giants and incredible geology on the VisitBritain SuperBlog. My walk on the Causeway Coast path started at the Giant’s Causeway UNESCO World Heritage site. Cliff top walks are always exhilarating experiences. The only downside I experience, comes when I wander [...]
On Saturday afternoon, I went for a ride around Brussels using Villo! bicycles. I was looking for some street art by Muga. After I had found the piece I was looking for, I continued exploring the back streets by bike. After ending up at Place Jourdain, I decided the best [...]
The North Face of the Eiger was the last of the six great European North Faces to be climbed. Eiger literally means ‘ogre’ and Eigernordwand is its German name for the North Face. The mountain has a fearsome reputation due to rockfalls, claiming the lives of at least sixty four climbers since 1935.
Blue tram on Mont Blanc Tramway Today on #FriFotos on Twitter, the theme is ‘Blue’ so I will be posting a number of photographs on the theme. The problem is choosing just one to represent my feelings on the subject. This photo comes closest. The Tramway Mont Blanc runs from [...]
The town has become eponymous with a place where the waters are used for their health enhancing properties. Spa-Francorchamps, the Belgian circuit, home to the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix is close by. There is also a large French language music; festival Francofolies, held each year in the town.
Suleymaniye Mosque Built between 1550 and 1558 the Suleymaniye Mosque is the second largest in Istanbul. If you are returning to Istanbul on one of the ferries the mosque dominates the skyline by the ferry terminal and Galata Bridge. This was my view one evening, arriving on the ferry from [...]
Chamonix Médiathèque is open in the afternoons, from Tuesday to Saturday. I joined when I lived there for a season in 2010. There was a deposit to pay and a 6 monthly membership fee, that was not exorbitant considering it included loan of books, CD’s and DVD’s. Another draw was the free WiFi. Yes, free, as you don’t have to be a member of the library to use it.
I posted a short piece about shopping at Place Flagey Market in 2009. It is a welcome port of call on a Saturday or Sunday morning, with plenty of organic produce on sale. This week I took my camera and set the focus to macro ando took some photos of [...]
One of the added bonuses of a Chamonix Season Lift Pass, is the chance to discover three other winter resorts in Haute-Savoie, so decided I’d like to explore Evasion Mont Blanc, a series of linked resorts including St Gervais, Megeve, Combloux and La Giettaz. In all 445 km of pistes. [...]A photo essay of the Udal Peninsula on North Uist, Western Isles, Scotland.
While walking the streets of Brussels, I am often aware that I am following in the footsteps of Georges Rémi, better known as Hergé, creator of Tintin. From where I type this article, I can see both of the schools he attended in his youth. He left his mark in the form [...]
It is the overhead snippets of conversation, that tells me that Winter Wonders or Plaisirs d’Hiver in French, is popular with visitors. “I was like…” the repeated “like” in twenty something females’ conversations. The oral version of a Facebook Wall. Or “I am lucky, as I can catch a train [...]
The theme for the photo sharing day on Twitter on Friday 18 November 2011 was Flags. If you look at my Twitter profile you will see that I tend to spend time between three locations. In this piece, I will include photos, including flags from each of these places. Wales [...]There are a lot of widely held views built on hearsay and misinformation. The deeper I look, the more complicated the story seems to get. One of my aims is to educate myself on travel environmental issues. Then to share my findings on this site and hopefully start a discussion [...]
#FriFotos is the weekly photo sharing day on Twitter. On Friday November 11, the theme is “Fall”, but as is usual, it is open to interpretation. Fall is the term used for Autumn in North America. However, the eleventh of November is Armistice Day and a Public Holiday in much [...]
The abbey of Val-Dieu was founded in 1216 by Cistercian monks. Surviving wars, floods and moral crises, it was temporarily dissolved by the French Revolution. Then in 1844 with the aid of the church and the last surviving monk, it was re-established and flourished again for another 150 years. The [...]
Have you ever stood on a railway station concourse and stared longingly at destinations on the Departures Board that were not printed on your tickets? Have you ever found yourself on the road somewhere and found that the you were travelling along one of the world’s more famous long distance [...]Street art Last week I visited the Ixelles Museum here in Brussels before their exhibition on Street Art closed and is replaced by a Dubuffet exhibition. Bonom was featured heavily, with insights into how he plans his pieces. The photo above shows a spider on a concrete building by Chapelle [...]
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