Chemainus is a community in the Chemainus Valley on the east coast of southern Vancouver Island. The community was founded as a logging town in 1858, and has an fascinating industrial history. Logging and machining of timber is only a […]
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Parksville is a small city on the eastern coast of Vancouver Island fronting Craig Bay. Sue and I shared a lovely house with Sue’s sister Sharon, her husband Byron and son Kyle. This is a very popular resort with some […]
Most of our first few days were spent in and around Victoria, capital city of British Columbia. Victoria is a city of some 84,289 people with a vibrant downtown area and large suburbs. The population of the greater metropolitan area […]
A day trip to Northam Burrows, north Devon. This interesting bit of coast is a peninsula bordering the River Torridge to the east, the estuary of the Rivers Taw and Torridge to the north and the open sea to the west. […]
Christmas with Sue, Anna, Gethin, Mo and Pete in a house on the River Arun in Littlehampton. The weather was mostly grey and damp but we had a very relaxed time, eating, drinking, listening to music and playing games. On […]
The annual visit to the lovely Dulverton Starlights event. I was still getting over a cold and only dropped in for a short time but I had a drink in Woods with Sue and saw the fireworks. Fortunately it was […]
Love Glastonbury. Love Glastonbury people. Great fun yesterday, meeting and photographing people at the Glastonbury Frost Fair. As a taster, here is Ariel who summed up the style. I said: “That’s a gorgeous outfit”. She replied: “It’s normal for Glastonbury”. […]
I caught a train from London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street to join a group of old school friends for a reunion at Weatherspoons, Maghull. Next day I took MerseyRail to West Kirby, an old haunt where some of us […]
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