Long, long ago (back in analogue days) he travelled the world extensively including a two year around the world trip. He is now rediscovering the world with a digital camera.
Where to start? So much has been written about Petra its tricky to know what more can be said. Everyone is familiar with the Indianan Jones movie of the arrival through the Siq and the…
As I described in the previous Jordan we had spent our first couple of nights in the town of Madaba, acclimatising to the being in Middle East. However, our main purpose in coming to Jordan…
“Where are you going on holiday this year?” the dreaded question asked by most barbers or hairdressers. If you’ve read any of my other blogs here on BaldHiker you’ll guess that I don’t always answer…
New Year’s Eve in Allendale Town high on the Pennine Hills in Northern England and there was some strange goings on, The Tar Bah’l. Actually it was just a regular New Year Eve in Allendale….
On a wet August Bank Holiday Sunday in the English Lake District (I know it’s hard to believe) we took the chance to visit a house we’d been meaning to visit for years – Blackwell…
I’m not usually one for an organized tourist bus trip kind of day out but I’d heard the Samariá Gorge was well worth it and is a ‘must do’ on when on holiday on Crete. …
Those of you born after 1989 may find the hard to believe but the in the post war era, during the so called Cold War, the ‘Two Tribes’ of Communism and Capitalism faced off against…
It’s only a short walk from the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to the Memorial to The Murdered Jews of Europe. It consists of a large space filled with 2711 stelae – which…
To those us brought up on The World at War documentaries the very word ‘Reichstag’ summons up images of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, goose-stepping SS and the dreadful, hideous reality of the extermination of up…
Lots of people will probably think of Tenerife as the home of cheap (ish) holidays in the sun for Northern Europeans – especially the ‘lager louts’ of Britain. And to some extent this has been…
We live in a lovely valley in Cumbria, called the Eden Valley. It is perhaps less well known than its Cumbrian near neighbour the Lake District National Park. The valley’s rolling drumlins, rich agricultural grasslands,…
I knew a little of the story of Bletchley Park and its role in assisting the Allies win World War II but I’d had never been inspired to visit until I saw the recent film…