Permanent Tourist is the personal website of Mark Howells-Mead, a British photographer and web developer living in Switzerland.
Latest blog posts
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Squeaky snow
When the temperature of snow is above -10°C, it melts slightly when you crush it by walking on it. At temperatures below -10°C, the ice crystals are crushed, which makes a squeaking sound. -
Lake Hallwil
Going somewhere new and exploring the lake shore at Seengen, near Hallwil. -
Enjoy nature while it lasts
If you find a natural feature, enjoy it while it lasts. -
Christmas Day in Narnia
Strolling in a winter wonderland on an unusual Christmas Day. -
Aeschiried in the snow
Photos from a wander in the winter sunshine in 2019. -
Scotland at night
Wonderful and unusual drone and time-lapse sequences from the Visit Scotland YouTube channel. -
Bern by night, 2011
My first little video put together using Adobe Premier Pro, using some old video clips from 2011. -
2020 retrospective – three weeks in the north of Scotland
Spending three weeks in one of the most beautiful parts of the world this summer.
Latest Instagram photos
About me and the site
I’m Mark; a photographer, web developer and blogger living in Switzerland. Permanent Tourist is my personal website. I came up with the name because I try to live like an interested visitor, whether at home or elsewhere.
WordPress
Back in 2001 and 2002, I collaborated on a piece of blogging software called b2/cafélog. After the original developer stopped working on the project, it was taken over by Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little and re-released as WordPress in May 2003.
Since then, I’ve been using WordPress for personal and business projects, both as part of my day job and also as a freelancer. In the late 2000s, I began contributing to the community as a plugin developer, and the first WordCamp conference in Zürich in 2014 led me to begin contributing to the Swiss WordPress community. WordPress is currently the most popular content management system in the world, by quite a long way.
Sharing my experience at WordCamp Zurich in 2019
Some statistics about the website
1,341 blog posts published since 2004
8,573 photos published since 2005
17 years online