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 [...]
Lews Castle at Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, Scotland Lews Castle and the tree filled park is pretty unique on the Isle of Lewis. If was built by James Matheson who built a fortune in the Chinese Opium Trade. The Mathesons also planted the trees around the castle, even going so [...]
Electric Mountain, Llanberis, North Wales Dinorwig Pump Storage Power Station is hidden, not behind the low Welsh clouds, but inside the mountain itself. This project is a vital part of the United Kingdom’s electricity supply infrastructure. The last time I visited, it was a construction project. Now the power station [...]
Welsh Highland Railway, North Wales The Welsh Highland Railway is North Wales’ newest railway, even though it is a reopening of a line closed to passenger traffic in 1936. This section graphically illustrates why the railway was built in the first place, as the Beyer Garratt locomotive hauls the train [...]
The cannon, Tryfan, Snowdonia, Wales Photo by Joelle Dubois. I chose a poor day to attempt Tryfan with Joelle. Setting off in sunshine, the weather changed as soon as we reached “The Cannon”. Although only part of the way up, low clouds started to drop their load of water making [...]
Tryfan, Snowdonia, Wales I am currently in quiet mode on Twitter, Facebook and Google plus as I am travelling around Wales. Today I was on the West Highland Railway. On my way I passed Tryfan. Tryfan is my favourite mountain in the United Kingdom. At only 3010 feet high, it [...]
Porth Dinllaen, Llyn, North Wales Owned by the National Trust since 1994. The only access without a vehicle permit, is across the beach from Morfa Nefyn or across the golf course. The most important building is the Ty Coch (red House) Pub. The views from the headland above the small [...]
Last week, we visited a friend in Liege, Belgium and went to see her allotment garden. Now allotments aren’t places of obvious beauty and this one was no exception. The fences were all homemade and so were the huts and of course they were mainly producing vegetables. But look a [...]
Cochem, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Cochem is located on the banks of the Moselle River in Germany. The distinctive castle was actually a rebuild by a Berlin businessman in 1868, the former castle having been destroyed by troops of the French king Louis XIV in 1688 in the Nine Years War. Along [...]
Amsterdam, Netherlands View towards the Rijksmuseum. Currently undergoing restoration works. Johannes Vermeer is one of my favourite artists with works on display. Amsterdam is great if you like cities where the car is not top of the transport food chain. Here the bicycle is the most useful mode of individual [...]
Brussels Street performers at traffic lights At the start of rue de Trone. This patch is normally worked by sad looking people who look on pleadingly while holding out a paper cup. Now, though many of the traffic lights have street performers such as jugglers or in this case acrobats. [...]
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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