A Road Trip in The Faroe Islands – Part II

Getting To The Faroe Islands The date for our departure on our long anticipated road trip in the Faroe Islands finally arrived on the 25th May 2023. Our first was flight from Stanstead, UK to Aalborg, Denmark, an old city...
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A Road Trip in The Faroe Islands – Part I

Why visit the remote and northerly Faroe Islands? A volcanic archipelago of 18 islands situated between Iceland and Norway in the most turbulent part of the North Atlantic might not seem like the most promising destination for a road trip....
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Three Days in Venice

Arriving in the afternoon from London, I took a water taxi into the city.  It’s a great way to arrive with passing boats throwing up spray as they speed past and I was in a high state of excitement by...
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From Muscat to the Mountains Part 2

The next day we left Muscat and headed for Jebel Akhdar - the Green Mountain. This forms the central section of the Al Hajar (Rocky or Stone) Mountain range, which run for about 700 km thorough Oman and the UAE....
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From Muscat to the Mountains Part 1

Though I’ve seen a little of the Middle East from trips to Dubai and Doha, I didn’t feel like I’d really experienced much in the way of authentic local culture from visiting those sleek, high rise metropolises. Each time I...
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Death in Tijuana

This is the last post in a short series that covers a week-long roadtrip from Vancouver to Tijuana with two old friends, and to be clear - no one dies - that was just an unreliable forecast of how the...
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From San Francisco to Pismo Beach

On day 6 of our trip from Vancouver to Tijuana we awoke in San Francisco.  From there we would continue down the coast to our stop for the night at Pismo Beach -  a  small city between San Francisco and...
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Though the Redwoods to San Francisco

This was day 5 of our trip from Vancouver to Tijuana and our longest drive.  We had to cover some 400 miles, mostly on twisting two lane highways, from our lodge near Gold Beach on the Oregon coast  to San...
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The Magnificent Oregon Coast

US-26 To the Coast It was day four of our epic roadtrip from Vancouver to Tijuana, and time to hit the Oregon coast.  Over the past three days, of the 1,823 miles we would eventually travel between Mexico and Canada we...
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The Fine City of Portland

On the third day of our epic roadtrip from Vancouver to Tijuana, we took the I5 Interstate from Seattle to Portland.  It is the main and most direct North-South route in Washington State and the drive takes less than three...
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From Vancouver to Tijuana

At the end of April 2018, I embarked on a week long roadtrip from Vancouver to Tijuana with two old friends.  Our planning was limited to some banter on WhatsApp and covered just the start point, the end point, and...
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The Industrial Beauty of Gas Works Park

On the north shore of Lake Union, overlooking the skyline of downtown Seattle, a rusting collection of industrial era technology, partly overgrown and daubed with graffiti, forms the unlikely centre piece for Gas Works Park.  I found myself there on...
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The Blues Trail – Mississippi & Arkansas

Into Blues Country It was in the Mississippi Delta that sharecroppers first fused the rhythms and tones of Africa with the scale and instruments of American folk music to produce the blues.   This new musical form was was first described by touring...
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The Blues Trail – Memphis, Tennessee

At the age of 14 I was listening to a Pirate radio station broadcasting from the North Sea when I heard a track from George Thorogood and the Destroyers.  It was probably a song from from their self-titled album of...
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Darkness in Las Vegas

Through the eyes of a lifetime resident Today's Las Vegas is very different to how it was in its formative years, when it grew to provide gambling and other adult entertainment to dam construction workers partially funded by Mafia investment....
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Encounters with Japanese Dragons

The ryū - Japanese Dragon "In Japan, the dragon is a good guy, not a bad guy." This was the comment of our guide in Kyoto on a trip across Japan, where we had several memorable encounters with Japanese dragons....
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10 Days in Japan

Between 13th and 23rd May 2017, I travelled across Japan with a small group of friends on a trip organised by Trailfinders.  I have wanted to go for more than a decade and my expectations were sky high, and I...
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Shooting Las Vegas

Origins Las Vegas is undoubtedly one of the stranger places in the USA.   Its sheer scale, the juxtaposition of replicas of famous landmarks, the relentless 24 hour gambling and the fantasy element of the place all contribute to that...
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Route 66 & Monument Valley Road Trip

The typical advice you will find on the web about combining Route 66 and Monument Valley on a trip is 'don't', and I will admit that we (myself and two old friends) cranked out some substantial mileage in 8 days...
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The Cuban Jungle in a ’55 Chevy

In 2014 I visited Cuba. I had been shooting with professional photographer Ramses Batista for several days in Old Havana when it occurred to me we should take a trip out of the city into the jungle in one of...
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