Posts about Travel and tourism
One Way Up
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The single track road from Stöckalp in the Melchtal valley up to the ski resort of Melchsee Frutt is… an experience.
Black Forest in a day
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Photos from a day on the road, travelling a total of around 720 kilometres from our home in Switzerland to the Black Forest in southern Germany.
Justis Valley, Sigriswil
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A Sunday evening drive to the Justis valley, below the Niederhorn, with a landscape photographed to the sound of roaring red stags.
Where Toblerone comes from*
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A recent blog post by a fellow Brit resident in Switzerland prompted me to head out into Bern. My goal for the lunchtime trip was a university building to the north of the railway tracks; a blue-painted building in the style common throughout the city, which dates to the end of the nineteenth century and…
Conquering Catbells
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It had long been a goal of Jo’s and mine to extend our walking and “bag” one of the Lakeland fells. However, we hadn’t anticipated doing so in quite such a challenging way.
“Church of the Motorway”, Rastatt, Germany
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A visit to the “motorway church” of St. Christophorus in Baden-Württemberg during our 2010 road trip from Switzerland to the UK and back.
Road Trip 2010 – Switzerland to Belgium
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The first leg of this year’s summer holiday takes us from home in Switzerland through France, Luxembourg and Belgium.
Evening Cruise
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Ask anyone who knows me well, and they’ll probably be familiar with me excusing myself during dinner to step out and photograph the sunset.
Get Shorty
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A gallery of images from my journey to the U.K. and back in 2006, collecting Jo to bring her to live with me in Switzerland.
London Life
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Since moving away from the UK, I miss jaunts into London, which now only take place once a year at most. A German resident of London, Konstantin Binder, provides me with a dose of the kind of exploration I would do, were I still in the UK.
Stopover in Taormina
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A set of panoramic photographs of Taormina, an ancient town built high on the cliffs of Sicily’s eastern coast.
The Big Freeze
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On our way back to Edinburgh from Angus, we stopped off at Kinross to see the impressive expanse of Loch Leven, frozen and covered with snow.
Letham in the Snow
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We spent much of the Christmas and New Year break in Letham, a small town in Angus, Scotland, where Jo grew up. Just after New Year, we took Archie, the family dog, for a walk around the town and Jo showed me places from her childhood as the evening set in and more snow fell.
Diversion to Leadhills
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We took a diversion off the motorway to explore the wintry countryside and came across the highest village in Scotland, buried in snow.
Takeoff from Edinburgh airport
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A five minute video shot out of the window of an easyJet flight leaving Edinburgh and banking west over the Firth of Forth in Scotland.
Notes from a flight home
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Short observational notes taken on a flight between Edinburgh and Geneva.
Driving home for Christmas
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If you’ve been following my Twitter stream today, you’ll probably know that while I should be almost in Scotland by now, I am, in fact, still on Swiss soil. After the third early start in a row, when we headed for Geneva to catch our flight to Edinburgh for a two week holiday with family,…
