Mark Howells-Mead, self-portrait January 2024

Permanent Tourist

The personal website of Mark Howells-Mead

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Paddle steamer arriving in Spiez

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Permanent Tourist

This is the personal website of Mark Howells-Mead, a British photographer and WordPress web developer/designer in Switzerland.

Latest blog posts

The blog is the heart of this website, with content on a wide range of topics which interest me. The archives contain entries going back to 2004.

  • The Camberley Obelisk

    July 2025

    An unusual folly in the woods at Camberley in Surrey… which has outlasted my junior school.

  • Spotting a fake horse

    July 2025

    The increasing difficulty of spotting fake content on social media platforms.

  • Sand dunes at Brora beach

    The Leica Lux app for iPhone

    June 2025

    I’ve been experimenting with the new Leica Lux app.

  • From the South to the North

    June 2025

    Heading from the far south of England to the far north of England in one long motorway drive.

All blog posts

Photographic archive

Recent additions to an ever-growing collection of photos I’m sharing publicly here on the site. (Don’t be surprised if the latest additions are older. I’m adding them from my personal archive in a pretty random order.)

  • Arbroath, Scotland

    March 2006
  • Melchsee Frutt OW

    January 2005
  • St. Dunstan-in-the-East, London

    April 2014
  • St. Dunstan-in-the-East, London

    April 2014
  • Melchsee Frutt OW

    January 2005
  • Männlichen, Switzerland

    August 2005
  • Männlichen

    January 2020
  • Loch a'Chroisg, Scotland

    December 2019
  • Loch Shiel, Scotland

    April 2005
  • Zermatt in autumn

    Zermatt in autumn

    October 2021
  • Schloss Crap da Sass

    October 2020
  • Eiger, early morning

    August 2020
Complete archive

Blog posts about hiking and walking

All posts about hiking and walking
  • Silver How and Lang How from Grasmere

    March 2025

    A wet and cold walk to a small Wainwright fell in January 2019.

  • Winter sun at Sunnbüel

    March 2025

    Hiking in the snowy mountains above Kandersteg in February.

  • Jo photographing the view from Loweswater Fell to Crummock Water

    Low Fell from Thackthwaite

    March 2025

    A gentle autumn walk to wonderful views across Lorton Vale and Crummock Water.

  • Alone at Hardendale

    January 2025

    A short break and brief drone flights above the farmland in the sunset near the highest point of the UK motorway network.

All posts about hiking and walking

Videos

  • Part of the Grand Bisse d'Ayent irrigation system

    Random things in July

    September 2023

    Lots of work stopped me from going out so much, but we did get in a great trip to canton Wallis.

    Watch the video

  • Random things in June

    Random things in June

    July 2023

    Making more of an effort to publish moving pictures, including one from Dartmoor in June.

    Watch the video

  • The Ice Path in summer

    The Ice Path in summer

    May 2023

    With a name like “Ice Path”, you know before you arrive that a hiking route is going to be a pretty spectacular one.

    Watch the video

  • Axalp in the snow

    Axalp in the snow

    November 2021

    Walking in the snowy landscape of Axalp, high above Lake Brienz in the Swiss Bernese Oberland.

    Watch the video

Video overview
My YouTube channel

WordPress

WordPress is currently the most popular content management system in the world. I’ve been using WordPress for personal and business projects since 2003, both as part of my day job and also as a freelancer. I have been an active member of the Swiss WordPress community since the first official Swiss WordCamp in 2014, co-organising and presenting at conferences across the country.

My work with WordPress
Mark Howells-Mead on stage at WordCamp Zurich

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Mark Howells-Mead is a WordPress designer and developer based in Switzerland. Mark has been building websites and web-apps for nearly 30 years and has over 20 years of experience building websites for small and medium-sized businesses using WordPress. He is fluent in English, German and Swiss German, having moved to the Swiss Alps in 2001.

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