Posts about Travel and tourism

  • I was planning on writing a nice, long blog post when I returned from Yorkshire a couple of weeks ago about travelling light as a photographer. Despite the fact that David beat me to it when he got back from Cuba, I’ll add my own thoughts. I now honestly feel for the people I see lugging…

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  • 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 before an upcoming visit to Yorkshire, I knew that I had to plan in a trip to…

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  • Ianto Jones was a character in the BBC sci-fi series Torchwood, who was killed off during the mini-series “Children of Earth” in 2009. This gated area on the shoreline at Mermaid Quay in Cardiff Bay was used as one of the entrances to the secret Torchwood headquarters; when I visited in 2011, this array of…

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  • A few selected images from my ever-expanding collection of aisles in places of worship.

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  • At home on the road

    I feel a new long-term photo project coming on…

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  • Kensington to Camden

    Photographer Nick Turpin straps a camera to his motorbike and shows just how hair-raising a drive through London can be.

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  • Pendine Sands is the name given to the long, flat beach at Pendine in Camarthenshire, south Wales. The flatness and level surface brought speed fiends to Pendine in the early twentieth century, when Malcolm Campbell and J. G. Parry-Thomas took turns at breaking each other’s world land speed records on the beach, topping out at…

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  • The Shard

    The Shard opened today in London and I’m looking forward to seeing Konstantin‘s photos, when he goes up to the viewing gallery – 245 metres above street level – this weekend. Firstly because I greatly enjoy seeing aerial photos of the city, but also because I received (as yet unbooked) tickets to go up the tower…

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  • As a Britischer, I am often asked for suggestions by people who plan on visiting London: where to eat, what they really must see, and where there are good hotels. I had been planning on writing a much longer and more explanatory guide of places which I really like to see, and will indeed do…

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  • The alpine passes in early or late season offer a reminder to the untamed nature of the mountains.

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  • Fans of Switzerland and train travel in the Alps shouldn’t miss a recent episode of Great Continental Railway Journeys by the BBC.

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  • Local lake shipping company BLS now runs a daily ship service in the winter months.

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  • Pradaschier toboggan run

    The dry toboggan run at Pradaschier, in the southern Swiss alps, is touted as being the longest in Europe.

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  • I adore the way that the road curves around the boulder, how a single tree grows from the top of this boulder, how the road is cambered to lean cars into the centre of the bend, how there’s a small parking place next to a well in the middle of the hairpin, and how there…

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  • The “other” village of Brienz, which we came across by chance when on holiday in Graubünden recently.

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  • A small set of black and white landscape photographs, shot on an overcast day in the Lauterbrunnen Valley.

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  • When I read online that the road leading up into the mountains from Chur to Arosa was particularly windy, I scoffed, having ascended the mountain passes on many occasions.

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  • Jo and I visited Graubünden (again) for our anniversary this year, and settled on the Hotel Seehof in Arosa.

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  • I spent a couple of days in London in June, primarily to spend time taking documentary photographs on the streets I used to pound when I lived in England. One of the things which strikes me is how so many things seem to be commercialized by supermarkets: from the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee to the simple…

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  • First Fliers

    First Fliers

    Jo’s parents have been with us for the past couple of weeks and one of their requests was to visit First, the mountain area above the eastern side of the Grindelwald valley. To see the views, you might think? No. To feed their ornithological needs and visit the alpine choughs? No. To hang from a zip…

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  • London’s new cable car

    An eight minute ride across the River Thames in London… by cable car.

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