Day-tripper
Some days you just have to get away from the all the usual day-to-day tedium and see somewhere else. It’s good for the soul. With time on my hands and just the blue sky overhead, I am impelled to set my SatNav and put my foot down, driving away from home (thirty miles or more). Without a care in the world. There’s a lot of nice places to see out there.
I don’t always drive, I also like trains and buses, and I often stay away for longer than a day. Neither am I confined by the coastline of the British Isles – in spite of the madness of Brexit, Europe is still just a Eurostar away. This is a photographic and video selection of my ‘day-tripping’. Other trips are yet to be made.
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Return of the Native
Caught up in the street entertainment laid on for the Liverpool tourists and the Mayas at the World Museum.
Turning Japanese in Port Sunlight
A sunny afternoon across the Mersey in Port Sunlight at the beautiful Lady Lever gallery to see the Edo-Pop exhibition.
Wandering the Capital
Stanley Kubrick, Vincent van Gogh, the teeming hordes of tourists enjoying the London sunshine and a train ride home.
Barging through Cheshire
A quiet sixty-third birthday spent on the Shropshire-Union Canal at the helm of a narrowboat.
In search of the ancestor
Stonehenge, Monkey World and the Jurassic Coast. Escaping the pandemic blues one sunny September in 2020.
East Coast Adventures
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Humber, Flamborough Head, Scarborough, the Angel, Bamburgh and Lindisfarne.
Skandomania in Malmö & København
Crossing the Oresund by Flixbus, boating around Copenhagen and collection of sculpture at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
Dropping in on Stan
A bus pass and a little planning can take you far - and all for free! Manchester without the rain.
A minor Welsh odyssey
Taking chances on the dangerous edge of nostalgia on a brief trip around the Llyn Peninsula.
Looking back
A trip back in time around Grasmere and Rydal Water, one cold January in 2022.