This page contains recent writing on the site – a bit of a shock, I know – or recent modifications which means you will see both Blog posts (which are summaries of recent updates on the site plus occasional forays off into other subjects) and Travel Portfolio posts (which are the main pieces of travel writing you’ll find on this site, comprising reviews, photos, and travelogues), and you’ll see them in most recently-updated order. This is because I occasionally revisit older posts and rewrite them, and because I occasionally add a new feature to the site and need an easy way to track what’s been changed using the modified date of posts.
So, if you want to see just the newest blog posts in the order in which they were most recently published you can take a look at the Blog page. If you want to see the most recently published travelogue, review, or photo update then the Travel Portfolio will list those. To see content from both categories of website posts but in the order in which I’ve most recently made a change then this is the page for you.
A page that has to explain its purpose is probably something serious website owners frown upon, but fortunately I’m not one of them. And I’m fully aware that nobody cares enough to browse a site these days, making a page like this mostly pointless, and that it’s all about the instant gratification from clicks, but, as I’ve mentioned elsewhere, this site is for me and my memories mainly. And I like to tinker with things so this was fun to do as well.
Through The Panama Canal And Other TraveloguesJuly 3rd, 2025 Round-up of the latest published travel posts, mostly from a cruise through the Panama Canal but also some older trips in the UK too. Blog.
Old Portsmouth Shoreline PhotowalkJune 13th, 2021 A walk along the shoreline at Old Portsmouth on a bright, sunny day, picking out some of the history of the sights you can see.
Cruising Through The Panama CanalJune 29th, 2025 Photos from our full transit of the Panama Canal heading from the Pacific to the Atlantic in November 2023 aboard the Ruby Princess cruise ship.
Travel AchievementsOctober 27th, 2017 This blog post lists some of the highlights of places to which we've travelled or of experiences in those places. We understand that everyone is different and that some people like beach holidays or going back to the same hotel every year but for us the joy of travelling is in seeing something that our friends and family haven't, of building up a list of experiential achievements, giving us something to look back at in years to come and say that yes, we did that, we saw that, we were there.
Arundel Castle GardensSeptember 22nd, 2017 Photographs of the impressive gardens of Arundel Castle taken in June 2014.
Calke Abbey, DerbyshireJune 27th, 2020 Photos and an account of our visit to the National Trust property of Calke Abbey in Derbyshire in 2014.
Photo: BrugesJune 26th, 2025 Reprocessing of a photo taken in Bruges in 2017.
Halloween On Ruby PrincessJune 25th, 2025 Pictures of the Halloween decorations around the Ruby Princess cruise ship during a cruise from the Pacific to the Atlantic via the Panama Canal in 2023.
Puntarenas, Costa RicaJune 23rd, 2025 A short walk around the shoreline area of Puntarenas, Costa Rica at the conclusion of a cruise excursion inland before boarding our ship.
