This page contains recent writing on the site – a bit of a shock, I know – or recent modifications which means you will see both Blog posts (which are summaries of recent updates on the site plus occasional forays off into other subjects) and Travel Portfolio posts (which are the main pieces of travel writing you’ll find on this site, comprising reviews, photos, and travelogues), and you’ll see them in most recently-updated order. This is because I occasionally revisit older posts and rewrite them, and because I occasionally add a new feature to the site and need an easy way to track what’s been changed using the modified date of posts.

So, if you want to see just the newest blog posts in the order in which they were most recently published you can take a look at the Blog page. If you want to see the most recently published travelogue, review, or photo update then the Travel Portfolio will list those. To see content from both categories of website posts but in the order in which I’ve most recently made a change then this is the page for you.

A page that has to explain its purpose is probably something serious website owners frown upon, but fortunately I’m not one of them. And I’m fully aware that nobody cares enough to browse a site these days, making a page like this mostly pointless, and that it’s all about the instant gratification from clicks, but, as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, this site is for me and my memories mainly. And I like to tinker with things so this was fun to do as well.


Marble Saloon, Stowe House
Inside Stowe House, BuckinghamshireFebruary 9th, 2024 Photographs taken in a number of rooms within Stowe House in Buckinghamshire, a private school located within grounds owned by the National Trust.
Oxford Architecture
Travel Map: Oxfordshire And Buckinghamshire, 2022August 1st, 2022 Interactive map of clickable links to places visited during a weekend break staying in Oxford and looking around both it and some nearby locations.
Travel Map: Yorkshire, 2010May 1st, 2010 Interactive map of places visited and photos taken during a trip to Yorkshire in May 2010.
Liarsville, AlaskaFebruary 12th, 2025 A few photos from a fly-plagued visit to otherwise entertaining Liarsville, a popular tourist stop for cruise passengers visiting Skagway, Alaska.
Housesteads Landscape
Travel Map: Magic Weekend, Newcastle, 2016May 1st, 2016 Interactive map showing locations for travel and experience write-ups and photographs taken on a trip to Newcastle in 2016.
Alaska Cruise: White Pass Scenic RailwayFebruary 10th, 2025 Photos of the fabulous Alaskan and Canadian scenery during a cruise excursion from Skagway that saw us experience the White Pass Railway.
Beaumaris Castle
Travel Map: West Wales, 2011September 1st, 2011 Interactive map with markers highlighting locations of clickable write-ups of visits to places of interest on the west coast of Wales in 2011.
River Dee
Travel Map: Trip To Galloway, Scotland, 2010September 1st, 2010 Interactive map of locations visited allowing you to click to read accounts of what we got up and see photographs.
Humpback Whales In AlaskaJanuary 30th, 2025 A cruise excursion while at Juneau, Alsaska gave us a chance to head out onto the water and see the extraordinary sight of Humpback Whales bubble-net feeding.
Painted Wall
Travel Map: Kos, 2020October 1st, 2020 Interactive map of clickable links to travelogues and photographs of a week on the Greek island of Kos in 2020.
Photo: Galloway Hydro Power SchemeFebruary 9th, 2025 A photo of one of the dams built as part of the Galloway Hydro Power Scheme in Scotland showing the woodland either side and a heather-covered stone bridge.
Caerlaverock Castle
Caerlaverock CastleMay 16th, 2017 A pictorial visit to Caerlaverock Castle in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland in 2010.