My mother was the born traveller. Whilst she managed a number of destinations in Europe, Poland (when part of the USSR: I accompanied her on this trip), Russia (when part of the USSR), the West Indies, Haiti, North America and Taiwan (accompanying me) she still wanted to see more but circumstances did not permit it. In contrast, at first I was much more timid.
In business, I had to travel and I made a number of trips to Europe, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand and India. The trip to India in 1992 illustrated the problems of travel for business. Whilst I was in India for almost seven weeks, I only had two full days off. Of course, there were periods of free time of a few hours, but never enough to do more than see a little more of Delhi. I made good use of those two full days, travelling by train to Agra, with its Red Fort, Taj Mahal and nearby Fatepur Sikri on the one day and flying to Varanasi (formerly Benares) with the River Ganges on the other. There's an introduction to these early, mainly business, trips here.
After my partner, Daemon, passed away in 1999 I decided it was time I saw a little more of the world, before age, infirmity or poverty precluded such jaunts. With the limitations imposed by the earlier business trips in mind, I decided that, to give me the freedom to visit where I wanted, when I wanted, I would have to pay for my own travel. Let me say at once that I'm aware how fortunate I've been in being able to make these trips. There's an introduction to these more recent (and, I hope, continuing trips) here.
The Potala Palace, Lhasa, Tibet.
With the advent of inexpensive digital photography, these more recent trips have given rise to quite a number of pictures (of rather variable quality) which you can find on my 'Flickr' site. There's an index of my travel pictures on my 'Flickr' site here or, alternately, you can choose a country from the list below and jump to a list of collections of pictures for that country.
Antarctic Peninsula: here (trips in 2007 and 2016)
Arctic: here
Argentina: here
Armenia: here
Australia (including Tasmania): here
Australia: (Thursday Island): here
Austria: here
Azerbaijan: here
Bali (Indonesia): here
Bhutan: here
Botswana: here
Brazil: here
Burma
2008 (1st trip): here
2008 (2nd trip): here
2009: here
2010: here
2011: here
2012: here
2013: here
2014: here
2015: here
2016: here
2017 (1st trip): here
2017 (2nd trip): here
2018: here
2019: here
Cambodia: here
Canada: here
Chile: here
China: here
Cuba: here
Dubai (U.A.E.): here
Equador (and Galapagos): here
Egypt: here
Falkland Islands: here
Georgia: here
Germany: here
Hong Kong and Macau: here
India: here
Japan: here
Java (Indonesia): here
Jordan: here
Laos:here
Malaysia (around KL): here
Malta: here
Mexico: here
Mongolia: here
Molucca Isles (Indonesia): here
Namibia: here
Nepal: here
New Zealand: here
Pacific Islands: here
Panama: here
Papua New Guinea: here
Peru: here
Qatar: here
Russia
2011: here
2012: here
Sabah (Malaysia):
2010: here
2015: here
Sarawak (Malaysia): here
Singapore: here
South Africa: here
Sulawesi (Indonesia): here
Taiwan: here
Thailand: here
Tibet (China): here
Turkey: here
Ukraine: here
United Kingdom: here
United Kingdom Overseas Territories:
(South Georgia) here
(St. Helena/Ascension Island) here
(Tristan da Cunha) here
United States of America: here
Vanuatu: here
Vietnam: here
West Papua (Indonesia):
here
Zambia: here
A rather damp Jan at Victoria Falls.
[Updated 16-Jan-2017: 28-Nov-2017: 19-Jun-2018: 9-Oct-2018: 28-Jun-2019: 30-Dec-2020]
Monday, 12 October 2015
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