About

About I am a gardener and writer, and this is my travelog. It also includes miscellaneous notes, mainly to myself.

A lot of this travelog is written retrospectively. So you’ll excuse me if I am a year or so out in places. I wasn’t the best cataloguer of photos. And, I should warn, it will take me a while to catch up to the present day. You will also have to excuse the fact that some of the posts appear to have predated the Internet. This is why I have included a ‘Last updated’ field for the posts. It gives you a more accurate idea of when the post was written, as opposed to when the journey took place.

Some – most of it – also happened before we had such things as digital cameras and phones; instead we had cameras and physical photo albums. I held on to my cameras even after the advent of the iPhone, and still mostly relied upon them for a while till I gave up because of the inconvenience of lugging a camera around. And the fact that I never trusted that this little thing in my hand would ever give good enough results. How wrong was I? Some even stretch back to days of film where to add to the album you first took your films to a developer. That may be where I have struggled to get images for the journey in question. If I have, I say so.

We have spent most of our time in North America and Europe, with a few other places thrown in just for good measure. Initially, many of our travels included my daughter and our parents. But our parents have either passed away or have grown too old, while my daughter is old enough to do her own thing.

Logo image: Public domain. Daphne Du Maurier describes the fictional estate Manderley in her novel Rebecca. Menabilly is a Cornish home said to have heavily influenced that description.