Introduction

The theme of this site is travel - on land, at sea and in the air. The site offers a collection of images taken by three generations of photographers, starting with pictures taken by Austin Frost at the turn of the century in the Far East. His photographs were taken on his travels in China, Japan, India, Iran and Egypt between 1906 and the mid 1920s.

The pictures taken by Tom Frost during WWII capture scenes in India, Saigon and the Dutch Celebes just before, and just after, the end of the war.

Recent pictures taken by Chris Frost span journeys across Europe, the Middle East, the Far East and the Americas over the past thirty years.

Chris has also taken his cameras underwater and into the skies. The pictures of SS Thistlegorm, a famous Red Sea wreck bring both flying and diving interests together and revealed more of the secrets of the sunken cargo.

Flying a TB10 in the UK and elsewhere in Europe.

Built in 1989, G-OFIT is a Socata TB10 based at White Waltham in the UK. The TB10 is a stable touring platform that is a pleasure to fly. G-OFIT is owned by GFI Aviation, a friendly group of nine pilots. G-OFIT is probably the only TB10 to have killed a fox, which crossed the runway and was hit by the landing gear one night when one of our members was completing his Night Rating.

G-OFIT has traveled as far as Morocco to the south and Finland to the North.

Have recently started to use AFPEX and have set up an AFPEX forum here to share experiences of using AFPEX, particularly flight plan addressing. The AFPEX system is good, but has some features that are not as intuitive as they might be.

Travel in the blood

When I realized that I have been traveling for more that 45 years, I thought that it was time to reflect on some of my most memorable trips.

I thought that I would start at the beginning. My first solo long distance journey was a train journey from Gloucester to Sheffield at the age of seven and a half in the care of the guard. My mother had also entrusted me with the looking after my five and a half year old brother.

Just before she closed the carriage door and said goodbye, my mother reminded me that we had to change in Birmingham. With my cardboard ticket clasped firmly in my hand, we waited for the steam engine to take us on our way. Our legs, encased in shorts and knee length woollen socks would not have reached the floor and the air heavy with the scent of steam, coal dust and cigarette smoke. The change at Birmingham went smoothly and we arrived in Sheffield to be met by my grandfather - but not on the expected train. It had been a good first journey.

Three months in Japan in 1907 - a personal journal

In 1907, my grandfather, then a doctor in the British Army, visited Japan, traveling by steamer from Hong Kong to Kobe.

He traveled around the country for three months traveling variously on trains, electric trams, Jinsha railways, on foot, and on horseback.

He made friends with his Japanese hosts, ate their food and learned their language - not knowing that his sons would end up fighting against the Japanese during WWII - and that one would not survive the war. and he kept al journal of his journey around Japan - which is now available to read on this site..

He also took a camera and some of the his photographs have been uploaded on to this site.

His account paints a unique picture of the tourist industry that was already well established in Japan at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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Kobe

Japan

34° 41' 14.7408" N, 135° 11' 42.0252" E

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