22 days and 2,300 miles through Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Arizona in September 2025
Tibby and I were in Edinburgh from 11 – 18 August 2025, our first trip back to the festivals since before COVID. We attended 19 events at the Edinburgh Book Festival, that focused on recent books of authors, but we also attended two Fringe Festival events. And of…
I travelled from Cape Town to the Kgaligadi Transfrontier Park and back to Cape Town over 23 days and 4,700 kilometres in May 2025. I was travelling with my cousin, Denise Skeffington, for most of the time, and we were joined for two weeks by another of our…
In September and October 2024, we travelled 4,200 kms in twenty days from Victoria Falls, through Chobe, Moremi, Kgaligadi, Fish River Canyon and Richtersveld to Cape Town. I was travelling with my cousins, Karen and Michelle Stodel from Cape Town and my nephew, Gordon Lycett from Brisbane, Australia.…
In August 2024 we travelled 3,700kms in twelve days from Cape Town to Maun via Khaudum National Park in Namibia. I was travelling with our friend, Annie, a Canadian who lives in Türkiye and who travelled in 1979 with us and seventeen others in a truck from London…
In March 2024 I travelled 3,500 kms in ten days, mainly in Namibia. I was travelling with my wife, Tibby, our daughter, Megan, and her partner, Tom Chisholm. Our route took us from Cape Town through the Namaqua and Richtersveld National Parks in South Africa and then in…
Our daughter, Juls, and I travelled for 200 miles in six days on the Orkney Islands and 415 miles in seven days on the Shetland Islands. We did 82,000 steps on five walks. We also used ten ferries. Juls had just finished an adventure of visiting all 104…
Tibby and spent three days in Istanbul in September 2023 before visiting our friend, Annie Cumming, in Yalikavak, Turkey Day 1 We had flown in from London, the day before, on Saturday 9th September and were staying at The Wings Hotel in the Karakoy area of Istanbul, near…
In May and June 2023 Tibby and I did a 22 day, 3,100km river cruise from Bucharest to Amsterdam on Viking Vidar. We were travelling with our friends, Mikelle and Doug, from Daytona Beach, Florida. We first met them on a river cruise in 2014 from Lyons to…
Tibby and I did a 16-day cruise on Azamara Onward from Lima to Miami in February 2023. We spent four days in Lima before the cruise and one night in Daytona after. Our friend, Vickie Downie, joined us on the cruise. We flew on 8th February 2023 to…
In October and November 2022, I travelled 6,500 kms through Botswana and Namibia in 35 days. We started in Livingstone on 22nd October, travelled through Chobe Riverside, Chobe Savuti, Moremi and the Kgaligadi in Botswana and South Africa, then went to Sossusvlei and to Conception Bay in the…
In September 2022 Tibby and I did a 23-day, 2,500 mile motorhome trip from Boston to Niagara Falls to Maine and back to Boston. We travelled with our friends, Richard and Jean Thompson from London. Each couple hired a motorhome. The guidebook company Lonely Planet produces a book…
Tibby and I met Carole and Ken McCall in Holland in 1989 and have stayed friends. Their son, Ross, married Emily, from New Orleans, on Saturday 3rd September 2022, on Nantucket. There were three wedding related events over three days which were all wonderful. There was enough time…
Tibby and I departed on 7th August 2022 for a ten-day cruise from Dublin with six stops on the coast of Iceland. We were cruising on the Azamara Pursuit and we were travelling with our friend, Vickie Downie. Seydisfordur It took us 72 hours to sail from Dublin…
We spent a week in August 2022 on the Island of Lundy, ten miles off the coast of North Devon, England where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Bristol Channel. Lundy is three miles long and half a mile wide. There are signs that the island was occupied in…
In April 2022, I travelled 5,000 kms through Malawi in 24 days. I started my trip in Livingstone in Zambia, drove two days to Malawi, did a big loop through the country, and then returned the vehicle to Livingstone.
Tibby and I travelled on the Blue Train from Pretoria to Cape Town departing on Monday 8th November 2021. The trip was a disaster.
In September and October 2021, I travelled 7,000 kms through Tanzania and Zambia in 40 days. I started my trip in Arusha in Tanzania, headed down the eastern side of Tanzania as far as Nyerere National Park and then travelled west across the width of the country to Lake Tanganyika.
Tibby and I travelled 3,000 miles around England, Wales and Scotland in 34 days in May and June 2021.
On a gorgeous spring afternoon we wandered through the Hampton Court Palace Tulip Festival with our friends Jean and Richard Thompson