Hello! This blog belongs to David and Annette. We previously had a website with our photo albums on, but after Apple withdrew iWeb we stopped updating it. We’re now replacing it with a new website using Adobe Portfolio, and decided to create a blog, with links to the photos, to say a bit more about some of our trips. It’s fair to say that both sites are still a work in progress.
We’ve been together since the early ‘80s when we met as students at Oxford University, and since then we’ve travelled quite a bit. Travel is quite a loaded word and often implies extended periods abroad, but we haven’t been like that. We’ve just been trying to have the best possible holiday experiences fitted around our working lives. That said, between us we’ve managed to visit:
Antigua, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France (Including Reunion Island), Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Libya, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Monaco, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tanzania, The Gambia, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom (well, we live here), United States, Vatican City, Vietnam, Western Sahara, Zambia.
A lot of our earlier trips we did with Explore. It’s fair to say that our experience with them changed our lives. Our first trip with them was a hiking / camping trip in the Jbel Sirwa region in Morocco. Seeing the fantastic scenery and interacting with the locals was a formative experience, but at the time we really wouldn’t have considered trying to do such a thing independently (the internet didn’t exist when we started travelling, of course!)
We’ve used other travel providers too, but it was Explore that really set us on our way. In time we became pretty confident travellers to the extent that when we had flights booked for an organised tour to Burkina Faso, but the tour was cancelled due to lack of participants, we simply booked a local guide and car and did pretty much the same itinerary ourselves. Since then we’ve sorted out most of our travel arrangements ourselves.
Peregrinamur 