Having traveled to Bihar a little over 12 months previous with some quite disastrous consequences as far as my travel plans went I was keen not to be beat by a “small” setback and this trip took me pack to Patna where we lost out on a lot of ground on that last trip. It Read the Rest…
This trip was just a long weekend away. My girlfriend & I wanted to relax and see some scenery, mainly mountains and snow, and what better place to do it than Switzerland? We traveled out by train from Doncaster to Montreux with East Coast to London, Eurostar to Paris Nord, TGV Lyria to Lausanne & SBB to Read the Rest…
A 17 day trip to Australia, a trip that had been in the planning stages for over 12 months and was long overdue in on my list of places to visit. In the 17 days we only covered a very small part of the country, namely New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Australian Capitol Territory Read the Rest…
This trip was a relatively short one, only 2 weeks, and having flown into Mumbai we traveled through Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu & Karnataka before heading on to Australia from Bangalore. A comprehensive report of my travels can be found here in my Railway section. Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh Kerala Tamil Nadu Karnataka
Unlike some of my railway trips around the world this trip to Mozambique certainly offered up plenty of opportunity for general photography. We visited three main areas, Nampula, Beira & Maputo having traveled into Mozambique over the land border at Nayuchi in Malawi. All of our travelling, with the exception of our arrival into the Read the Rest…
A short 7 day trip, it was a quick in/out trip, railway orientated of course, which didn’t take us anywhere other than northern Tunisia along the railway lines from Tunis – Bizerte & Tunis – Ghardimaou (on the Algerian border). We based ourselves at the Hotel Omrane in Tunis, a short 2 minute walk from Read the Rest…
A weekend away with the other half, during which the weather was strangely quite good to us, despite the time of year. We traveled out and back by Eurostar, unfortunately our return journey was 90 minutes late into St Pancras and we’d missed our booked connection at Kings Cross. Eurostar on board staff stamped our Read the Rest…
This selection of photos was taken during a Railway trip to India which covered quite a distance, including the States of West Bengal, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan & Haryana. All of my travels in India are by train and my long distance train travel is always booked before flying out to Read the Rest…
We got about a bit on this trip, starting in Mumbai on the west coast we ended up in Puri, Orissa, on the east coast before Jammu Tawi in the North West state of Jammu & Kashmir and ended in Delhi! The highlight had to be seeing the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab, during the Read the Rest…
A trip from Winnipeg, through Saskatchewan & Manitoba, to reach the northern most place we visited, Cranberry Portage, Manitoba. It was well worth the effort, although we initially almost cancelled this part of our trip due to railway related issues and things not quite being as we wanted them. I’m glad we didn’t. Having stayed Read the Rest…
During part of a trip to the USA & Canada we stopped off at what i consider one of the most scenic parts of the world that I’ve ever visited, the White Pass & Yukon Route Railway in Alaska. This tourist railway runs from Skagway in Alaska to Carcross in Yukon, Canada. It travels a Read the Rest…
This trip was very hard work indeed but looking back on it after the even I wouldn’t have done anything differently and we managed to beat everything that the Railways threw at us during our journey even if we did almost miss our flight home in the end…….. For the full story please see the Read the Rest…