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All good things come to an end, and it’s time to say farewell to my trusty Avant.

Grand Canal, Venice, photographed from the Ponte dell'Accademia

We took advantage of a much-reduced number of tourists in July to visit Venice. I came away with an unexpected number of good and unique photographs.

Going somewhere new and exploring the lake shore at Seengen, near Hallwil.

Spending three weeks in one of the most beautiful parts of the world this summer.

The news over the past couple of days has proven that there is an insane number of people taking to the countryside in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. Here in the Swiss Alps, all of the cable cars and mountain stations are closed, and even the essential trains are running on a reduced service. […]

A short film by David Jervidal.

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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.

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The old cable-car station on the Wetterhorn in Switzerland

The Wetterhorn Aufzug in Grindelwald took visitors up towards the Wetterhorn until 1915.

British photographer and videographer Thomas Heaton visits three of my favourite locations in Switzerland.

Itching to visit the historic Hörnlihütte in Zermatt.

The small town of Gretna Green, which lies alongside the M6/A74M on the border between Scotland and England, is one of the most popular wedding destinations in the world.

Our holiday to the south of England this summer took us to the most south-westerly point of the British mainland.

Photographing picturesque villages amongst the rolling hills of canton Basel-Land.

Save your money for fun stuff and stay at a Premier Inn when you’re in London. Chain hotels, but excellent locations, high standards and free wifi.

There’s a trend these days for people to use the word “stunning”: from tabloid newspapers to t.v. presenters. And their use of the word so often makes everyone else use it. A view of the sea: “stunning”. A fashionable dress: “stunning”. A film star looking average on a red carpet somewhere: “stunning”. I think that use of the […]

Hiking along a panoramic path above the lake at Oeschinensee and then over-doing it on a much steeper, rockier path on the way to the Blümlisalphütte.

The Schilthorn Cableway has released a new short advertising film today, and as usual, it makes me want to head for Mürren straight away.

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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”.

Bathing in public was forbidden to the women of Zurich until 1837. Once the ban had been lifted, the city constructed a bathing house on the river Limmat, alongside the Stadthausquai next to the city hall.

A small set of photographs from Switzerland’s largest city, taken in a classically traditional square landscape format.

Posts about Travel and tourism

Looking back on 200,000 kilometres

Surprised by Venice

Lake Hallwil

2020 retrospective – three weeks in the north of Scotland

Temptation for idiots

Capture The North

Moods of Seaton

The first cable-car in Switzerland

Thomas Heaton in Switzerland

The draw of the Hörnlihütte

A place of irregular marriages

Land’s End

The rolling hills of Basel-Land

Hotel tip for central London

Oeschinenalp to Blüemlisalp glacier via Heuberg and Oberbärgli

New sales film from the Schilthorn

Smugglers’ Island

Frauenbad am Stadthausquai

Zurich scenes