Posts about UK over Christmas and New Year 2009-2010
Jo and I travelled from Switzerland to the UK to spend Christmas and the New Year with family in Scotland. A combination of bad weather, cancelled flights and personal circumstance made the trip very eventful: mainly due to driving unexpectedly from and to the south of England twice.
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.
A friend asked me over the Christmas break how I manage to retain my drive for taking photos. I gave it some thought over the past few days and thought that my answer might be useful or interesting to other photographers or artists and so here it is.
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.
We took a diversion off the motorway to explore the wintry countryside and came across the highest village in Scotland, buried in snow.
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.
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,…
