During our USA road trip this summer we hopped over to Jamaica for 4 days. We went with my friend, Sandi who is from Jamaica. She hadn’t been for 17…

Completing my collection of “The British Isles” we went to Northern Ireland last summer for a quick 4 day break.  For a person who grew up in England under the…

We spent a grand total of 20 hours in Qatar during the summer of 2013 on our way back from Morocco to Hong Kong. Not the ideal time of year…

The recent ‘It’s been a great year’ photo albums created for me by Google and Facebook got me thinking about the year as it ends. It’s been a seriously amazing…

Here is my first post after our trip to Azerbaijan.  Andrew and I headed there for a week just after school finished. It was a busy week and we saw…

This last trip had been a long time coming. In 2007 Andrew and I planned to go to Myanmar. Despite reservations about supporting the regime, a friend of ours had…

As I mentioned in my previous post, the northern town of Chefchaouen is simply gorgeous, due to the blue paint that adorns many buildings in the old part of the…

I spent a day on “The Rock” in July this year. We went on a day trip (an easy walk across the border from Spain). It’s a funny place, a…

When: Skiing in 1986, August 1995, Skiing in 1999, July 2005 View Austria in a larger map Where: Vienna, Saltzburg and ski resorts Who:Skiing on a school trip and with…

The country of my birth.  Can’t really do the usual destination summary here as I have spent so much time there, and some of it I can’t even remember. Places…