Posts about Travel and tourism
Writing for Best Western
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I am now writing articles and sharing my photos on the new Best of Switzerland blog, set up and run by international hotel chain Best Western.
Balchrick, Scotland
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Although it doesn’t look much, this remote – really remote – hamlet was the turning point on our mammoth road trip last summer, from Switzerland to Scotland and back.
Oldshoremore
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Beyond Kinlochbervie lies one of the most beautiful sandy beaches in Sutherland: Oldshoremore.
Annual siren testing
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One of these days, I’m going to remember (without looking it up) that the annual siren test takes place across the whole of Switzerland on the first Wednesday of February. More information on the Swiss government’s portal. (Post updated 4th February 2026 with a current video from Faulensee.)
Campione d’Italia
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Looking on the map at the area on the eastern shores of Switzerland’s Lake Lugano, you’ll come across a small anomaly: the municipality of Campione d’Italia. The municipality, which is entirely surrounded by Switzerland’s territory, is tiny: little more than a village, a winding road clambering its way up a vertiginous cliff, and a section…
2011 calendar now available to order
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The 2011 edition of my annual photographic calendar, featuring travel and landscape photographs from Scotland, England, Switzerland and Italy, is now available to order via the Lulu.com website.
Eleven, Cathedral St. Ursen, Solothurn
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The number eleven has a lot of relevance in the Swiss city of Solothurn.
Loch a’ Chàirn Bhàin
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Clouds draw in over a remote sea loch in the far north west of Scotland, as we pass by on a long day’s round trip from Alness.
Driving off-piste
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Jo and I took a drive up to Grindelwald last night to take some moonlit landscape photos. After an abortive attempt to head up to Bussalp–which saw us having to reverse back down a single track lane which got too narrow and way too steep to pass, after following the misguidance of Google Maps on
The Main Road in the Western Highlands
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During a day’s driving to the north western corner of Scotland this summer, much of the round trip to our destination was on a road like this.
Schilthorn in the mist
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A day in the clouds at the Piz Gloria mountain-top revolving restaurant.
Alpine Festival, Lenk
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Mum and Dad were with us in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago, and we visited Lenk – in the mountains above the Simmental valley – to see the alpine festival.
A day above the clouds
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Shots from a day trip to the small, local alpine ski resort of Melchsee Frutt in canton Obwalden.
Alphorn on the Bonistock
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A lone musician plays alphorn music on the Bonistock mountain peak, high above the lake and village at Melchsee Frutt in canton Obwalden.
Above the clouds
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The “Nebelmeer” (lit. sea of cloud) is a fabulous meteorological phonemenon at this time of year, caused by a band of dense cloud sealing cold air beneath it in alpine valleys.
