Year: 2016
Back from Norfolk
I arrived home from Norfolk Island on Wednesday afternoon after a solid week of activity. I had a busy week and I was pretty tired after having three early mornings (3.45 am) in a row. I filled in my second last day (free of any planned activity) revisiting some of the places that I had […]
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Norfolk Island Photography
The weather turned yesterday – back to a sunny day with a slight breeze. It was very different to the gloomy fog and humidity of the previous day.. We were very active again with so many interesting things to photograph. Hrere’s a sample of some of my images from the day. I found this Golden […]
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More Time on Norfolk Island
I have been very busy over the last few days with our photography group on Norfolk Island. We have enjoyed the scenery and the opportunity to take an unlimited number of shots throughout the day. Michael Snedic has presented us with a lot of opportunities to photograph the highlights of this place in a well […]
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Back on Norfolk Island
Well, I’m back on Norfolk – a place that I hadn’t expected to return to, at least for many years. This time, I have a different set of expectations and I’m busy with a photo workshop run by Michael Snedic, a Brisbane based photographer. Last time I was here, I was disappointed. Not by the […]
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Donald Trump and the Return to ‘Leave it to Beaver’
I have previously only made one political comment in all of my blog postings and that was to express my relief in seeing Barack Obama (a man of integrity) replace George W Bush as President of the United States. Now that Donald Trump has been elected as the new President of the United States, I […]
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Back to Heathrow
We left Cheltenham this morning without a firm plan as to what to do during the day as we drove back to Heathrow where we will stay overnight before catching our flight home tomorrow morning. We started with a visit to Gloucester to see the redeveloped area around the docks n the River Severn. Its’ […]
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West in the Cotswolds
We awoke to a bright, sunny day today – although it was very crisp. It was a beautiful sight in Cheltenham, where we have been staying, to see the streets and their grand Georgian style buildings lit by bright sunlight. The yellow autumn colour of the elm trees was vibrant. Our guide book tells us […]
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North in the Cotswolds
The weather has cooled over the last couple of days and I’m back to wearing warmer clothes. For the last couple of days it has been 18C and very mild. We have been very lucky with the weather. Over the last four weeks, we have only had one rainy day and a couple of other […]
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East in the Cotswolds
Today we drove eastwards to see more of the scenic villages that we had identified in our pre-trip research. I really enjoy driving through these country roads and little villages although most other cars on the road (especially Audis and Jaguars) drive much faster than us and invariably tail-gate us right up our clacker, as […]
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South in the Cotswolds
We’ve begun the final phase of our visit to SW England and that is to spend a few days in Cheltenham so that we can visit some of the beautiful villages in the Cotswolds region of England. The time has changed for us today as Summer Time ended last night. Moving the clocks one hour […]
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A Day in Bristol
We spent a lot of time today visiting the museum site of the SS Great Britain in Bristol. This is a womderful exhibit of a ship which, on its own, during the second half of the 1800’s took about 4% of the population of Australia (at that time) out to the colonies. The ship made […]
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Driving to Bristol
Our journey today turned out to be just a transit day as we travelled from Ifracombe to Bristol. This positions us to have some time to look round the city tomorrow before we reach our next (and last base) at Cheltenham. We could have whizzed up the highway and been in Bristol in a couple of […]
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