Trip reports

”Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain

"One's destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things." - Henry Miller



Here is a list of links to my trip reports around Europe and within the UK:

European trips

Republic of Ireland - January and February 2020

Netherlands - December 2019

Coming soon …. North Finland and north Norway - June and July 2019

Coming soon …. Bulgaria and Romania - May and June 2018

Hungary, Slovakia and south Poland plus Prague, Czech Republic - May and June 2017

Estonia and north east Finland plus Saint Petersburg, Russia - May 2016

Iceland - June 2015

North Greece - May 2015

North east Poland - May 2013

South and west Spain - April and May 2012

North Norway - March 2012

South and north west Spain - September 2010

North Finland and north Norway - April 2010

North east Spain - November 2009

North and east Finland and north Norway - May and June 2009

North Norway - February 2009

UK trips

Kent, Suffolk and Norfolk - December 2024

Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk and East Yorkshire - June 2024

Essex, Sussex, Suffolk, Wales and Somerset - May 2024

Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk - January 2024

Kent, Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk - November 2023

Essex, Norfolk and Lincolnshire - September 2023

Dorset - July 2023

Essex, Norfolk and west Wales - June 2023

North and mid Wales - May 2023

Essex and Norfolk - January and February 2023

Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk - December 2022

Suffolk, Norfolk and Yorkshire - June 2022

Wales, Dorset and West Sussex - May 2022

Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Norfolk - April 2022

Yorkshire - July 2021

Somerset and south, mid and west Wales - June 2021

East Anglia and south west England - January 2020

West Scotland - September and October 2019

North and west Scotland - June 2019

East Anglia, Wales and south west England - May 2019

Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and south west England - January 2019

North and west Scotland - June 2018

North and mid Wales and the Somerset Levels - May 2018

South west England - January 2018

Northumberland - December 2017

West Scotland: Islay and Mull - November 2017

North and west Scotland - June 2017

North and mid Wales - May 2017

West Scotland: Ardnamurchan peninsula and Mull - September 2016

North and west Scotland - June 2016

North and mid Wales - June 2016

South west Scotland: Dumfries and Galloway - January 2016

West Scotland: Ardnamurchan peninsula, Mull and Skye - September 2015

North and west Scotland - June 2015

South west Scotland: Dumfries and Galloway - January 2015

West Scotland: Ardnamurchan peninsula, Mull and Skye - September 2014

North Scotland - June 2014

North east England - June 2014

North, mid and west Wales - May 2014

West Scotland: Ardnamurchan peninsula - October 2013

North Scotland - June 2013

Mid and north Wales - May 2013

Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cumbria and south west Scotland - January 2013

North Scotland - June 2012

West Scotland: Argyll and Mull - November 2011

North Scotland - June 2011

Mid and north Wales - May 2011

North Scotland - June 2010

Mid and north Wales - May 2010

North Norfolk and Scotland - December 2009 and January 2010

Mid and north Wales - May 2009

West and north Scotland - April 2009

West Scotland: Islay and Mull - November 2008

North Scotland and Shetland - June 2008

Wales - May 2008

West Scotland: Islay - November 2007