We arrived back from our trip to Japan on Friday afternoon and seemed to launch ourselves straight back into a busy weekend....

We had a brilliant time; it was a real immersion in an utterly different place.  The food was fantastic, I didn't pick up a knife or fork for two weeks, ate no bread, butter, cheese, chocolate, drank no wine but ate like ( Read more... )

We're heading down to Heathrow Airport tomorrow to start our trip to Japan.  We're staying overnight at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel at the airport and will see Peter's sister and family for supper, which will certainly beat an Airport Hotel Meal.  We can leave the car at the hotel for the full two weeks - it was a great deal especially as we don't ( Read more... )

We're going to Japan in June.....I've been dying to go there for years and years.  We're going with a friend whose been many times before and knows how things work and he's really done the work getting hotels booked via his travel agent in the USA ( Read more... )

We arrived home from Morocco late last Wednesday....we had a fantastic time, met lots of great people, saw wonderful things and some nasty things and, of course, took masses of photographs. I spent all weekend backing up the RAW files and transferring them to my external hard drive and then the epic job of keywording in Lightroom and then sifting ( Read more... )

The Morocco Photography Trip is back on! Huzzah! We still can't afford it, but I'm booking the flights anyway and they are cheaper than I had expected - it's £235 for one way to Tangier from Heathrow for two people then £45 back from Marrakech to Manchester for two, I still need to price the flight from Manchester to Heathrow. I went through the ( Read more... )

Our forthcoming photography trip to Morocco in April has been cancelled......

( This is what the trip would have involved )

I'm sitting in the foyer of the rather crappy hotel we've been staying in in Caleta de Fuste in Fuerteventura while we helped mum fit out her little flat. This is a really weird keyboard with the Y and Z swapped over so I keep typing gyberish. In fact, I'm going to type as normal to save time ( Read more... )