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Christmas Tree Countdown

With Epiphany approaching, the trees and lights will soon be gone.  I’ll be sad to see this one go – it looked stunning against a bright winter sky. Linked to […]

My Travelling 2014

Sitting here and looking back at my travels in 2014, I wonder how I also managed to fit in working and moving house. I only visited one new country this […]

Happy New Year!

“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, ‘It will be happier.'” -Alfred Lord Tennyson “Write it on your heart that every day is the best day […]

Industrious Venice

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.  – Andrew Carnegie I had a great travelling 2014.  One of my favourite memories is the photo workshop I attended […]

What’s Happening this January

2015 opens with some exciting events around the world.  Maybe some of these January events will tempt you. AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Modern Times The Rijksmuseum’s first ever photography exhibition to showcase […]

Z is for… Zénobe Gramme

Zénobe Théophile Gramme (1826-1901), the father of the dynamo, was a Belgian engineer who lived and died in France. At the age of 30 he began work in a Paris electrical […]

Looking Forward to 2015

The new year is almost here, so here’s a quick look at some of the events coming up around the world. 2015 has been designated the International Year of Light and the International […]

An Alternative Face of Venice

I didn’t see much graffitti in Venice and what there was tended to be confined to specific areas, such as around the football stadium and the port.  This example made me […]