Posts marked with the tag “Travel

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“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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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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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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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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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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Driving home for Christmas

From the Road
Wednesday, 23rd December, 20092 comments

If you’ve been following my Twitter stream today, you’ll probably know that while I should be almost in Scotland by now, I am, in fact, still on Swiss soil. After the third early start in a row, when we headed for Geneva to catch our flight to Edinburgh for a two week holiday with family, the plague of flight cancellations finally reached us and scuppered our plans.

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Don’t ride the rails drunk, kids

Travel
Tuesday, 1st December, 20091 comment

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In Transit

Travel / Writing
Tuesday, 24th November, 2009No comments

An attempt at the first in a series of 50 word short stories, inspired by my trip to Scotland to meet Jo in 2004.

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Things I could’ve photographed this morning, if only they’d happened

From the Road / Life / Travel / Writing
Wednesday, 11th November, 20092 comments

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Rain, Rain

Switzerland galleries
Friday, 4th September, 2009No comments

Photos of various wetness around the city of Bern, as I head for the train station and home on a Friday night.

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Advance Passenger Information (API)

Travel
Thursday, 6th August, 2009No comments

New legislation means that pretty much every air travel passenger must submit their personal travel documentation – passport information – before arriving at the airport.

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You’ve Got Mail

Advertising / Geek stuff / Internet / Photography
Tuesday, 28th July, 2009No comments

An American company offers a service to send individual, custom postcards from your mobile phone or web browser via traditional mail.

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Visit Switzerland: The Alpine Passes

Landscape photography / Switzerland galleries / Travel
Thursday, 16th July, 20093 comments

I occasionally receive emails from people all over the world, who find my photos and blog and want to know which places in Switzerland are unmissable for their upcoming trip. The most recent one has inspired me to make a series of blog posts in response, the first of which covers the high altitude mountain passes of the central Swiss Alps.

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Wedding trip part 3: arrival in England

Travel
Tuesday, 30th June, 20091 comment

After a very long pause, I continue with my series of posts telling the story of our trip to Scotland and back to get married.

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