Posts from the category Travel
Permanent Tourist 2010 Calendar
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It’s been a hectic week and weekend, hence the delay in posting that I’ve released my 2010 calendar.
Snaps from the Choo Choo gig at Wasserwerk
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A few snapshots from last night’s Choo Choo gig at the Wasserwerk club in Bern.
Black and white Lightroom presets by MikeyG
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An example of an image processed using a simple preset available through the Lightroom Presets website.
Don’t ride the rails drunk, kids
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I woke a sleeping drunk last night, when the train to Interlaken terminated in Spiez due to the onward line being blocked. He looked at me blurrily and asked whether he needed to catch the onward replacement bus service to get to Grenoble. (Which is in France.) In other words, he’d staggered onto the wrong
Gaudy is Good
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I love gaudiness in the U.K. at Christmas and revel in the blinking, multi-coloured tastelessness of it all. Just so long as it’s someone else’s home, not my own.
On the rails again
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After a fairly long break, I returned to my major photographic project recently, which takes me across the whole of the city of Bern on a quest to photograph all 219 of the tram and bus stops of the Bernmobil network.
In Transit
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An attempt at the first in a series of 50 word short stories, inspired by my trip to Scotland to meet Jo in 2004.
A greengrocer selling her wares at the side of the road starts throwing cabbages at a father and son standing at her stall without bicycles but wearing cycling helmets. A carriage full of train passengers passed out in their seats at the severe smell of rotten eggs pervading from the toilet. A glazier, attending to
Pollara Lighthouse
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A small gallery of a ruined and abandoned lighthouse on the main road from Malfa, atop three hundred metre high cliffs on the north western corner of Salina amongst the Aeolian Islands.
Cablecar to Cassonsgrat
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A video of an eight minute trip from Naraus to Cassonsgrat by cablecar, high above the village of Flims Waldhaus, filmed with my iPhone.
Flims, Graubünden
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Jo and I pledged to one another that we will go on holiday during the first week of October every year and celebrate our wedding anniversary by visiting somewhere new together. This year, we chose the south eastern Swiss canton of Graubünden as our destination. The article contains a gallery of photos from our trip.
Into another world
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Last weekend, we chose to head for the Eigergletscher (“Eiger Glacier”) station high above Grindelwald: to appreciate the astounding beauty of the autumnal landscapes below the station, to be enthralled by the massive cliffs of the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau, and also to visit the polar dogs who are kenneled next to the station.
Rain, Rain
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Photos of various wetness around the city of Bern, as I head for the train station and home on a Friday night.
Free photo show in Bern
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After the success of my last talk at the English Speaking Club in Bern, at which I showed a couple of dozen of my people and street photographs, I am pleased to have been invited back for a second free evening by president Corinne Oegerli. This time, instead of people photographs, I intend to show…
Advance Passenger Information (API)
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New legislation means that pretty much every air travel passenger must submit their personal travel documentation – passport information – before arriving at the airport.
You’ve Got Mail
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An American company offers a service to send individual, custom postcards from your mobile phone or web browser via traditional mail.
Stock Ghyll Beck, Cumbria
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One of the many hundreds of gems which lie in folders in my cupboard; one of the thousands of frames taken over the years with traditional film cameras.
Visit Switzerland: The Alpine Passes
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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…
