My favorite challenge is the Friendly Friday challenge, hosted alternately by The Snow Melts Somewhere, and Amanda at Something to Ponder About, this week with Snow, who has given the challenge of 'stay in your comfort zone'. I've had a good think about this one, and am going to start with two of my real… Continue reading Friendly Friday – stay in your comfort zone
I wrote this series of blogs a while back now. They have sat in obscurity in the darkest archives of my blog, and to be honest have never really seen the light of day. This year will be the 30th anniversary of my first trip to Greece, so I think it's time to give them a… Continue reading Greece – the start of a love affair
After years of travelling in the Ionian Islands, I came to Crete and instantly feel in love with the Island. I mean not the really crazy bits around the airports, but the more quieter locations that can be found easy enough across this large Island. This year we were based in the foothills above Rethymnon,… Continue reading Crete in B&W
I woke up to rain this morning. It was about 6 a.m. and the day was silent apart from the constant rhythmic falling of the rain outside. It was the heavy windless winter rain, cutting through the empty air silently, to patter against the trees and houses alike. A gentle sound that drowns out any… Continue reading Rain
I was talking the other days about buildings, and had this grand idea to put up a blog of all the shiny buildings I had taken photos of in various places. When I started to look through my backlog of photos, I realised that the shiny buildings were not really the most interesting buildings. This… Continue reading Buildings, beautiful and varied
I was listening to this album over the weekend, probably one of my all round favorite albums. I say probably because it is hard to tell. Music is like emotions, the feelings that come can be triggered in different ways, and what works for you today might be totally different tomorrow. That said, this is… Continue reading The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
Gunung Rinjani was the first mountain I ever climbed. And probably the hardest, but not for any other reason than it was where I broke my climbing muscles in so to speak. Once you have climbed one mountain it gets easier. Well that has been my experience. The mountain is the main feature on the… Continue reading Gunung Rinjani, Lombok, Indonesia
