Blog posts about spring at Permanent Tourist

Editing multiple shots of the same scene together to get a massively-improved level of sharpness throughout the image.

I bought a bike because it’s fun, it will improve my fitness rapidly – thereby helping me to get ready for hiking season – and because it means that I don’t have to rely on public transport or on my car for my daily trip to work and back. It also allows me to enjoy the local scenery more; getting me further more quickly than on foot.

A spring-like day and an afternoon stroll around a little village on the shore of Lake Brienz.

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Visiting lake shore villages in the French-speaking Romandie region of Switzerland feels like a little foreign holiday.

The name “Giessbach” translates literally as “pouring stream”, and pour it does, magnificently and powerfully, when there is a lot of rain.

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In which we start the hiking season as early as we possibly can, with the longest route we’ve done to date.

Travelling, even in my own country, has given me much more interest in the places which many pass by, giving them little thought as they are so familiar. A small Forestry Commission car park at the side of the road not far from Inverness offers a place to stop at one such place: the “Clootie […]

The Rosengarten (Rose Garden) in Bern is high on the hill to the east of the city, with fantastic views across the Aare meander and the lower part of the old city.

A photo I took a year ago today reminds me to put down the lighting gear and head out with just a camera and a pair of comfortable shoes, to capture the light which needs no help.

Jo, photographed on a Sunday outing to the Gurten hilltop park on the outskirts of Bern.

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Spring flowers in bloom in the small copse near the house where I grew up.

Mist rising from the lake during the early morning in Brienz, Switzerland. Photograph taken in 2005.

A small collection of images I took on a spring trip to Basel in 2005 with friends from the Swiss blogging scene.

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Being Easter weekend, Jo and I decided to spend the weekend exploring new places. We started today by getting the train and bus to the top of a hill between Thun and Bern, to walk across the rolling hills with views of the Alps between Gerzensee and Kiesen. You can see the full route we […]

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It’s been a long time coming, but Spring is here. Beautiful weather this past weekend, so it’ll soon be time once more to travel to Thun by ship for shopping trip, and time to dust off the camera to capture summer sunshine.