Travel

Articles relating to trips I take or travel in general.

“Church of the Motorway”, Rastatt, Germany

Individual photographs / Travel
Friday, 16th July, 2010No comments

A visit to the “motorway church” of St. Christophorus in Baden-Württemberg during our 2010 road trip from Switzerland to the UK and back.

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Road Trip 2010 – Switzerland to Belgium

Travel
Wednesday, 23rd June, 2010No comments

The first leg of this year’s summer holiday takes us from home in Switzerland through France, Luxembourg and Belgium.

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Evening Cruise

Travel
Monday, 14th June, 20101 comment

Ask anyone who knows me well, and they’ll probably be familiar with me excusing myself during dinner to step out and photograph the sunset.

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Get Shorty

Life / Travel
Thursday, 22nd April, 20101 comment

A gallery of images from my journey to the U.K. and back, to collect Jo in 2006 and bring her back to live with me in Switzerland.

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Eiger Run

Individual photographs / Landscape photography / Travel / Video
Wednesday, 24th February, 20101 comment

A photo and video from the Eiger Run sledge route, between the mountain-top hamlet of Kleine Scheidegg and tourist centre at Grindelwald.

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London Life

By other people / Life / Travel
Thursday, 28th January, 20102 comments

Since moving away from the UK, I miss jaunts into London, which now only take place once a year at most. A German resident of London, Konstantin Binder, provides me with a dose of the kind of exploration I would do, were I still in the UK.

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Stopover in Taormina

Italy galleries / Travel
Saturday, 23rd January, 2010No comments

A set of panoramic photographs of Taormina, an ancient town built high on the cliffs of Sicily’s eastern coast.

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The Big Freeze

Individual photographs / Landscape photography / Travel
Thursday, 14th January, 20101 comment

On our way back to Edinburgh from Angus, we stopped off at Kinross to see the impressive expanse of Loch Leven, frozen and covered with snow.

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Trossach Mountains from the A9

Individual photographs / Landscape photography / Travel
Monday, 11th January, 2010No comments

Driving between Stirling and Perth on our way back to Angus, I saw this jaw-droppingly beautiful pink sunset over a fog-covered winter landscape alongside the main road. So, I jumped on the brakes, pulled into a farm access road and waded through calf-deep snow to get as many shots as I could before the light changed.

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Letham in the Snow

Scotland galleries / Travel
Sunday, 10th January, 2010No comments

We spent much of the Christmas and New Year break in Letham, a small town in Angus, Scotland, where Jo grew up. Just after New Year, we took Archie, the family dog, for a walk around the town and Jo showed me places from her childhood as the evening set in and more snow fell.

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Diversion to Leadhills

Landscape photography / Scotland galleries / Travel
Saturday, 9th January, 20102 comments

We took a diversion off the motorway to explore the wintry countryside and came across the highest village in Scotland, buried in snow.

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Takeoff from Edinburgh airport

Travel / Video
Thursday, 7th January, 2010No comments

A five minute video shot out of the window of an easyJet flight leaving Edinburgh and banking west over the Firth of Forth in Scotland.

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Notes from a flight home

From the Road / Travel / Writing
Tuesday, 5th January, 2010No comments

Short observational notes taken on a flight between Edinburgh and Geneva.

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A word is worth a thousand pictures

Individual photographs / Landscape photography / Travel
Tuesday, 5th January, 2010No comments

While we were in the U.K. this Christmas, Jo and I travelled down to the south coast of England at short notice to visit family. On our return, we headed back up along the west of England and south western Scotland, stopping off in the small town pictured here as we’d heard so much about it, but never visited.

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Permanent Tourist 2010 Calendar

Individual photographs / Landscape photography / Prints for sale / Travel
Monday, 14th December, 2009No comments

It’s been a hectic week and weekend, hence the delay in posting that I’ve released my 2010 calendar.

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