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Monday 5th August One of the sites many blogs will tell you to visit in Colombo is the Red Mosque. Although I had survived my first day of driving in Colombo the previous day, we decided to park the car somewhere in the city, then catch tuk-tuks wherever we needed to go. We got dropped…
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Sunday 4th August We landed at Bandaranaike International Airport around 23:30 local time on Saturday night, some 26 hours after waking up in Gosford. Our hire car company ferried us to their depot, got us in our car, and off we headed for our nearby accommodation. Sunday morning, we hit the road for Colombo itself,…
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It’s midnight or thereabouts, and I’ve just returned home from my first time visiting the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade. I figured this would prove a challenging environment in which to get familiar with my new camera, and it sure was! Particularly as I was shooting with a manual focus lens (my new…
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Through the week, Tammy Clifton (#razzatazza on instagram) who I shot with in September last year, asked if anyone would like to collaborate on a car-themed shoot in the Newcastle/Hunter Valley area. I said I’d be happy to shoot with her again, and to my delight, she said she would be happy to shoot with…
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A week or so back, I had an opportunity to do a quick shoot with model Tammy Clifton. We had a small window of opportunity, and did some portraiture in the Lane Cove National Park in Sydney. Tammy was only in town for the day, having traveled down from Taree. She was great fun to…
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Day 28 This morning, we caught the tour company courtesy bus from our resort for the hour-long commute to the marina. From there, we boarded our boat which ferried us around a bunch of iconic islands to the east of the Phuket peninsula. I don’t know what it was, but I felt crook all day,…
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Thailand… where rules are pretty easy-going. I suggested to Max that we should go and hire a couple of jet skis. He was totally up for that, having never been allowed to pilot one by himself. We hit the beach at Pathong and negotiated a price on a couple of jet skis for half an…
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Day 25 We were up at 05:00, and out the door by 05:30 this morning. At Heathrow by 06:00, two hours ahead of our 08:00 departure. A fairly uneventful flight to Doha, a 3 hour stopover, and a connecting flight to Phuket in Thailand. We’d decided to spend 4 days in Thailand as it would…
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We’d booked a hire car for the day, with a view to driving out to Windsor (to check out the Castle), then on to Bath, then down to Salisbury, and then back to Heathrow. We were on the road a little later than we’d planned (about 10:00), and by the time we got out to…
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Up after 4 1/2 hours sleep, and we’re off to Gare du Nord, the train station from which the Eurostar will depart for London. On the way, Cath mentioned that we’re booked into a hotel out near Heathrow, about an hour and a quarter train ride out of the centre of London. We agreed that…
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Today was another big day of walking around the city of lights. First stop was the Musee d’Orsay, which in a prior life, served as the main railway terminus for Paris. That big clock? That was the clock that gave travellers an idea of when their train was leaving. Then, it was on to Sacre…
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Although we’ve done a lot of walking on some of our sightseeing days on this trip, today epitomised what I had come to call “The Walk of Madness”. The three of us walked about 15km or so for the day, me lugging 12kg of camera gear. From our Air B’n’B on Rue de Clery, we…
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We caught an early bus down to the Palace, and were faced with a couple of options. We could join the queue waiting for access to the inside of the Palace, or we could go and wander through the gardens, which at this time of the morning, were largely deserted. It looked like the queue…
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Today we drove from Bordeaux to Versailles, on the southern side of Paris. We’ll be doing a tour of the Palace tomorrow, but this afternoon, we checked into our Air B’n’B, jumped on a bus, headed toward the Palace, and spent a few hours wandering the streets.For whatever reason, I was not inspired to take…
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Today, we drove from Zumaia to Bordeaux, another long-ish day of around 7 hours. I didn’t shoot anything along the way, as we just wanted to get there and get settled so we could hit the streets of Bordeaux. Our Air B’n’B turned out to be the dodgiest of them all (I guess one of…
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We’ve been in Zumaia for 24 hours and absolutely fallen in love with place. Today, Cath went off and sat on the beach and had some quiet time while I wandered around with the camera taking photos. These rocks are just mind boggling. At the left end of the beach (the Southern end), I could…
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As has been our modus operandi on this trip, we decided yesterday afternoon that it was time to start looking for accommodation for our next port of call (for tonight). We were originally going to go to San Sebastian, but when she started looking for an Air B’n’B there, Cath said “It’s more expensive than…
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While we absolutely loved the atmosphere in Fao, it wasn’t an overly photogenic town, so this ended up being a bit of a rest day for the camera. But come the evening, I was starting to feel guilty that I hadn’t shot anything all day. So I dropped Cath back at our Air B’n’B and…
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So, having decided to skip our second day in Lisbon, we packed up the car and headed out to Bellum to see the Tower of St Vincent. We then headed out to the area known as Sintra about an hour’s drive west of Lisbon. This area is full of historic buildings. The one place that…
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Today we headed back into the centre of Lisbon and wandered the streets some more. We saw some beautiful architecture, some REALLY old footings (dating from the 1st Century AD!) and a great view across the top of the city from a rooftop somewhere. We got to about 8 o’clock in the evening and decided…