Cinque Terre – La Spezia
Black-and-white photos from wanderings in the Italian Cinque Terre.
Published on 17th August 2019
Blog posts about coast
Moods of Seaton
One has to wonder what happened in the Devon seaside town of Seaton to bring it from a self-touted “artisanal haven” to its current dilapidated state.
Published on 16th June 2019
Cinque Terre – Vernazza
Black-and-white photos from wanderings in the Italian Cinque Terre.
Published on 28th May 2018
Cinque Terre – Monterosso al Mare
Black-and-white photos from wanderings in the Italian Cinque Terre.
Published on 27th May 2018
Sandbanks peninsula, Dorset
A small community on the British coast, near Poole in Dorset, is a prime piece of land. Measuring just eighty-eight metres at its narrowest point, the peninsula is amongst the most expensive pieces of real estate in the world, after…
Published on 17th May 2018
The Jurassic Coast
Mattia Bicchi smashes it out of the park again with this wonderful time-lapse video of the Jurassic Coast in the south of England.
Published on 21st March 2018
St. Michael’s Mount, Marazion
The small tidal island off the coast of southern Cornwall called St. Michael’s Mount has been home to the St. Aubyn family since the middle of the sixteenth century. The island, which is connected to the nearby mainland by a man-made…
Published on 15th February 2017
Smugglers’ Island
Burgh Island, off the coast of Devon, was re-christened by Agatha Christie in 1941 for her famous Hercule Poirot novel “Evil Under The Sun”.
Published on 13th August 2016
Lizard Point, Cornwall
As time goes on, we’re getting to see more and more new parts of the U.K. One goal we’ve set ourselves is to visit all of the most remote corners of the British “mainland”, as well as more remote spots…
Published on 3rd August 2016
Tintagel Not-Castle
I was a little disappointed that the “castle” at Tintagel was little more than a few bits of wall at the coast. (I suppose I have been spoiled by the castle ruins at Dunnotar and Tantallon.) Our walk…
Published on 14th July 2016
Trebarwith Strand
We recently spent a lovely couple of weeks on holiday, touring the south of England and spending a full week in Cornwall. On arrival at the self-catering cottage we’d booked, we chose to make things easy for ourselves and head to…
Published on 13th July 2016
Brora beach
A winter visit to the large beach at Brora, in the far north of Scotland.
Published on 9th January 2016
Aerial sequence of Brighton’s West Pier
Filmed by Sam Moore of Visual Air, these are touching sequences of a structure which can't be much longer for this world.
Published on 26th August 2015
Secret Britain
A new BBC travel programme seeks out lesser-known spots in the British Isles, starting this evening.
Published on 8th April 2015
Water spout on the Amalfi Coast
An unexpected water spout on the boat journey between Ischia, Capri and Positano in Italy.
Published on 20th July 2014
Seven Sisters
One of the most iconic pieces of landscape in the world is the stretch of white chalk cliffs along the south coast of England. Visible from many miles away when arriving by sea, the cliffs are one of the most…
Published on 25th November 2013
On the western edge
As part of our travels in Britain – in particular since Jo’s parents moved to the northern part of Scotland – I’ve wanted to visit the far extremes of the islands. I’ve decided to make do with the mainland destinations…
Published on 21st June 2013
More than just wooden stumps
If you’re heading along the A9 across the Cromarty Bridge in Scotland when the tide is out, you’ll see a number of blackened stumps sticking out of the mud of the estuary just next to the Ardullie roundabout for Dingwall. There…
Published on 2nd June 2013
Flamborough Head
Just up the coast from the collapsing cliffs in East Yorkshire is the more solid mass of Flamborough Head, one of the northernmost sections of chalk which thread their way up from the…
Published on 9th May 2013
The coastal erosion of East Riding
The sandy coastline at East Riding in Yorkshire, on the east coast of northern England, has the unfortunate designation of being the most heavily eroding piece of coastline in Europe. That meant that when I found Neil White’s photos shortly…
Published on 23rd April 2013
Camber Sands, East Sussex
Photos from a visit in June 2012…
Published on 3rd July 2012
Capo Sant’Andrea, Elba
The rocky coastline in the north west of Elba is unique in the world; granite magma, deposited by a volcano seven million years ago, is impregnated with orthoclase crystals and forms a peculiar, smoothed surface. On first seeing the…
Published on 24th August 2011
Viticcio
One of the joys of a holiday on the Mediterranean coast is finding small villages, hidden away amongst the folds of the coast, and the special places therein. Although I didn’t know it when I took this photo, there’s an…
Published on 22nd August 2011
Gallivant
A clip from the personal video essay by British filmmaker Andrew Kötting.
Published on 13th November 2010
Tarbat Ness Lighthouse
The classic lighthouse of the children's storybook is a tall white tower, banded with red and surrounded on most sides by the sea, looming above treacherous rocks and shining its light far and wide to tell people to stay away.
Published on 16th August 2010
Spring in Bournemouth
Published on 31st March 2010
Free photo show in Bern
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…
Published on 13th August 2009
Clifftop, Freshwater West, Wales
Going through photos from our wedding and honeymoon trip last year, to compile a book from Blurb. So expect a few more ones you haven’t seen yet being added to this Flickr set.
Published on 19th October 2008
A Light In The Darkness
We drove around back streets before asking a local for directions to the cliff-top lighthouse above Cromer, on the north coast of Norfolk. Against advice, we bumped up a narrow track to a small clearing, gained grudging permission from the…
Published on 7th February 2007
