Photos from a winter visit to Malta: Valletta, Mdina, the three cities and around golden bay.
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Gallery: Drielandenavontuur
Photos from our October adventures- mostly in the Netherlands, but with detours into Germany and Belgium too.
Gallery: Seattle 2018
Collecting together most of the photos from our time in Seattle – including some from general wandering not covered in other posts.
Seattle Museum of Flight and the Jet Blast Bash
A visit to Seattle’s Museum of Flight not only ticked another Concorde off my list, but gave me a chance to hear about something even faster, thanks to a talk by SR-71 pilot Brian Shul.
Oregon Rail
To get to Portland, Eugene and back to Seattle we used both of Amtrak’s rail services in the area: the Coast Starlight and Cascades.
Gallery: Eugene Street Art
Our visit to Eugene coincided with the downtown visual arts festival, which included the addition of fresh murals to the 20×21 project. We set out to find some of those, plus other pieces of street art around the city.
A tour of the Columbia River Gorge and Mt. Hood
Discovering some of Oregon’s beautiful scenery by guided tour.
Two Nights in… Madrid
A hotel voucher to burn, a new camera to test out, and a quirk of BA’s scheduling combined to send me to Madrid – where I was happy to find that this unfamiliar city was an architectural delight, soaking in winter sunshine.
Visting Etna and Alcantara from Taormina
Mt Etna in three courses: a gentle stroll around the Silvestri craters; a more demanding hike up from the cable car station; and paddling in the refreshing waters of the Alcantara gorge.
Photoset: Taormina
Having completed our long trip to Sicily, we spent most of our visit in the pretty cliff-top town of Taormina.
Visiting Pompeii from Naples
The frozen-in-time Roman settlement of Pompeii was a bit of challenge to visit without joining a tour group – but it was easily worth the effort! Here’s what we learnt (plus the obligatory photos).
The Bernina Express
Getting from Switzerland to Italy in style – by narrow gauge railway across the Alps.
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Four Nights in… New York
A work trip for a conference in Times Square gave me the chance at a longer visit to New York, which I split across two hotels and a variety of attractions. I also got to add an iconic BA experience to my list: flying Club World on the upper deck of a 747.
Two Nights in… Oslo
Despairing of the lack of a proper winter in the UK, I took a weekend in Oslo in search of snow.
Three nights in… Brussels
A long weekend in Belgium – based in Brussels, with a side trip to Ghent – plus Eurostar’s standard premier service.
