Travel photos and journals from across Asia [1997-2025]
Back in the northwest of England where things had brightened up a little again, we took a drive into the Peak District again to find some viewpoints around Kettleshulme and on to the very dry Errwood Reservoir. It had been one of the hottest and driest years on record for much of England. The landscape…
After a couple of days back on the farm catching up, we headed back to Stonehaven to visit Dunnottar Castle. The weather was great when we left but had turned into mist and fog by the time we reached the castle just a few miles up the road, such is the nature of things up…
Having exhausted many of the places to visit in the local vicinity, we wanted to venture further north so booked a hotel on Loch Ness. Getting there would be the good bit as it involved driving through the Cairngorms, the UK’s largest national park, to Inverness. There were other routes but the sun was forecast…
From here it was the long drive to Scotland and the new ‘Château de Jarvo’ in Aberdeenshire where we would be based for the next few weeks. Our rental shed had started to make some strange noises raising a few concerns but nobody wanted to answer the phone at the car company so we drove…
After two and a half years of lockdown in Thailand, travel restrictions were finally lifted in July 2022 paving the way for a long-awaited road trip. I hadn’t been back to the UK for three years and needed to attend to banking and business as well as make some long overdue visits to family and…
A year after my first trip to Scotland it was time to return for another reunion. The journey north seemed to take forever in our bright blue rental but the sun was shining on arrival and we would be spending the next week or so at Ray’s place on the Burnton Farm in Laurencekirk. Gary…
Four pals who met in the late nineties in Hua Hin decided to have a reunion in Scotland this summer. It was a ten hour drive north in Jonny’s silver bat-mobile to a wee village called Laurencekirk halfway between Dundee and Aberdeen. Our base for the next week was a stone cottage on a little…
Our trip had reached its most northerly point so it was time to head back south towards the coast once more. After some horsing around with good friends in Oxfordshire we crammed once again into the Silver Citroen Shed that had been our reliable wheels for the whole trip and made the long drive south. Cornwall…
Another foray into the Peak District took us to Stanage Edge, a gritstone escarpment near the village of Hathersage and mecca for local climbers. Wondering why the car park was empty, we headed through the Stanage Plantation and up to the rock face to be greeted with some house sized boulders and a climb to…
It was time to get out into the wilderness and take some hikes across the rolling hills of the Peak District. Just 20 miles from Manchester central the sprawling uplands offer an opportunity to get back to nature and take in some stunning vistas across farmlands, moors, villages and outcrops. This particular walk took us…
Just 7 miles from Folkestone, Dover has plenty to see for those on the tourist trail. Walking across the top of the white cliffs is something I’d always wanted to do, the hike to the lighthouse took about an hour and offered some spectacular vantage points on the cliff edge. A second trip to Dover…
It was time to get back down to the coast to Folkestone where we would be based for a couple of weeks. We spent the time exploring the town, and taking a trip on the Romney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway which ended up in a bleak and windswept Dungeness; it satisfied the inner trainspotter in…
Taking advantage of off season accommodation deals we took a break and headed northeast into Anglia and Great Yarmouth for a few days at the Hotpon Holiday Park. Caravan parks are not really my thing but at under 30 quid a night for a brand new three bedroom unit we had to give it a…
After such a great trip to the UK last year I vowed to return and bring the family this year for a couple of months. No greater introduction to the motherland would beat a trip to London so we gambled on the spring weather and jumped on the Tube at Elm Park. There would be…
I’m not going to do my usual photo trip report here as a lot of it was personal and visiting family so I’ll post a series of observations and comparisons to living in Thailand and Asia along with a few photos. The following observations are simply what I saw, felt and experienced on a 5…