Here's the last pile of photos from Canada:

• Jasper to Vancouver

Snow in Jasper, the rail journey through the Fraser and Thompson river canyons, the "looking out towards the Pacific" photo that goes with the Atlantic one from Halifax, and an arty shot of a reflection of one building in the windows of another which I spotted entirely ( Read more... )

It's taken me a long time to sort through my photos from last year's holiday, but here's another installment:

• Eastern Canada (Halifax to Toronto)
  
• On the train from Toronto to Jasper
  
• In the Canadian Rockies
  

I started the Canadian part of the trip in Halifax on the Atlantic coast, and passed through Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto. Mostly this was ( Read more... )

The first part of my holiday (all the way back in September) involved a brief stopover in Iceland, and I've finally sorted through and uploaded the photos: all in one big album.
I had three days on Iceland, so I did a day tour of the south coast, a day in Reykjavik, and a day on the Snaefellsnes peninsula. The photos here are all south coast and ( Read more... )

I got distracted from sifting through holiday photos, but here finally are the last two albums from my Scotland holiday back in May:

• Various bits of Orkney
• East coast (Kingussie, Pitlochry, Edinburgh)

The Orkney set includes photos of the Grain Earth-House, an iron age underground cellar that would have originally had a roundhouse on top of it, ( Read more... )

Another batch of holiday photos:

• Kyle of Lochalsh and Plockton
• Rocks on the beach at Thurso
• The isle of Hoy (as seen from the ferry to Orkney)
• St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney

Plockton's a very pretty little harbour town, and the hotel was right on the harbour front. While I was there there was a wedding on, with the ceremony conducted out on ( Read more... )

My Scotland holiday last month was great, and I did particularly well with the weather. The trip was what you might call a self-guided tour: the travel agent prebooked all the hotels, train travel, and a few small-group day tours for places like Skye and Orkney. I got to see some of Scotland's more scenic railway routes, on a loop that went up from ( Read more... )

I was prompted by the recent LiveJournal terms-of-service change (and by the fact that half my friends list seem to also be abandoning that ship) to move my journal to Dreamwidth. You can find me at http://pm215.dreamwidth.org/. I'm going to use the cross-posting facility to post my entries in both places at least for a while (though I only made 7 ( Read more... )

It seems that Virgin Mobile have finally decided to kill off the tariff I'd been happily using for the last decade or more, thus forcing me to consider the confusopoly of mobile phone tariff choices :-(
I don't use my mobile much at all (occasional texts and calls; the logs say I last used it back in August), so the old Virgin PAYG-by-direct-debit ( Read more... )

Last couple of sets weeded through and uploaded:

• Tokyo at night, and Mount Mitake
• A Tokyo park, illuminated at night
• The Odaiba waterfront (in Tokyo)

You can just about tell that it had snowed in this photo -- it all melted the next day. I'm quite impressed with my camera's ability to automatically take decent photos in the lighting conditions.

Further holiday photo installments:

• Takayama
• Maruyama and Obuse
• Snow Monkey Park