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“It is better to travel well than to arrive”

Koh Samui 2023

After the COVID lockdown, when travel was not an option, it…
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I LOVE ELEPHANTS, Koh Samui

Back to Thailand for a first post-COVID trip to Asia. The trip…
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Covid-19 lockdown in Chiswick

The Covid-19 lockdown in 2020 will be remembered as a tough…
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“It is better to travel well than to arrive”

Languedoc, France

Pézenas is a commune in the Hérault department in…
  • Europe

Somaliland

Six days  on a fact finding mission for the AMAR International…
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Transylvania. Romania

Transylvania in the autumn was a beautiful setting for our…
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Bodrum, Turkey

Just a day in Turkey. Sailed over from Kos in Greece.
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Kos, Greece

Just a week on the island of Kos. Sunny days and great sea…
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Baghdad

Just a short trip to Baghdad for a religious tolerance…
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Svalbard, Arctic circle

Svalbard (prior to 1925 known by its Dutch name Spitsbergen)…
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Basra, Iraq

Just a short trip to meet the team.
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Jamiaca

Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.…
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Al Khora, Iraq

Al Khora district in near Basra airport in southern Iraq.
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Northern Romania

The dance festival in Oncești, in the north of Romania brought…
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Essyan IDP camp, Iraq

Essian camp is in the Shekhan area, Northern Iraq. There are…
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Dohuk, Iraq

This was a great eating experience – fresh carp, cooked…
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Apache artist

An award winning Apache artist – Donn Clark. Donn is of…
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Gentle loving

Here is the pack in the BofE Rugby Club giving the Ruislip…
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G-OFIT respray

In 2016, the GFI Aviation group agreed that it was time for…
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Christmas market in Gent

Gent is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of…
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Christmas Market in Trier

The enchanting Trier Christmas Market takes place from…
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Lille, France

Lille is a city in northern France, in French Flanders. On the…
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Animals

Different animals from around the world.

Pakistan – people

Here are images of some of the great people I met in Pakistan…
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Chitral, Gilgit and Hunza, Pakistan 2016

Back to the north west region of Pakistan after 29 years. With…
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Stockholm, Sweden

This was a weekend spent in Stockholm with a group of English,…
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Jamaica

Just a short break in Jamaica, with time enough to relax and…

Colorized old photos

This is a selection of old black and white photographs that I…
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Winter time in London

London in winter can be a grey place with flat light. These…
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Winterscapes from the air

A couple of flights in January 2016, with clear skies, a touch…
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Canary Wharf, London

Canary Wharf is a major business district located in Tower…

Divine Highways

Abandoning his plan to search for his family roots in India,…
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Crossing the Mara river

This was taken in 2011 and shows part of a crossing of the…
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leopard

Masai Mara, 2015

The Maasai Mara is one of the best places in the world to see…
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Waltham to Le Touquet

A perfect day for flying, with Jamelin, my four year old…
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Waltham to Lydd

In January 2015, on a winter’s day, I flew from White…
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White Waltham to Old Buckenham

On a beautiful Saturday morning in June 2015, I flew with some…
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  • Flying

Bandhavgarh National Park, India

Bandhavgarh National Park is one of the popular national parks…
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Varanasi, India

Varanasi  also known as Benares ,[Banaras, or Kashi, is an…
  • Asia

Chumbi Valley, Tibet

Chumbi Valley is a valley in Tibet at the intersection of…
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Kathmandu, Nepal in B/W

Here are some black and white photographs of Kathmandu taken…
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Kathmandu, Nepal

Some images of Nepal taken in 1987, helping us remember what…
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India

This was a short visit that covered Varanasi, Bandhavgarh…
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Tourtour, France

What a wedding it was. Excitment. Drama. Great company and a…
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Kosovo

Kosovo is landlocked in the central Balkan Peninsula. Its…
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Oman

While working in Dubai, my team and I hired a 4 wheel drive…
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Saigon, Vietnam

Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam. It was once known as…
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Kashgar, Western China

Kashgar (known in Chinese as Kashi) is an oasis city with an…
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Wuhan to Shanghai

Little by little, I drifted downhill though the backstreets of…
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SS Thistlegorm

One the best wreck dives in the world The SS Thistlegorm was…
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Bristol Mercury

The Thistlegorm also contains cylinders from Bristol Mercury…
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Lysander

SS Thistlegorm was sunk in 1941 and contains a number of…
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Trolley acculmulator

A number of dive guides will tell you that you can see motor…
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Pundit light

This is a PUNDIT LIGHT – with generator, switch gear and…
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Blenheim bomber

Exhaust rings from the Blenheim’s Bristol Mercury…
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Salzburg – a baroque masterpiece

Salzburg is the fourth-largest city in Austria and the capital…
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Primate

Monkey World, Dorset

Monkey World assists governments around the world to stop the…
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WLAC members´ day 2014

WLAC Members´ day is usually in September and more often than…
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market near Cusco, Peru

Local marketplace in a small town near Cusco. Nice to see some…
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Hidroelectrica, Peru

After a noisy overnight stay in the Santa Teresa nightclub cum…
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Machu pichu

Machu Picchu, Peru as the sun rises

Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres…
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Cusco to Puno by train, Peru

The Andean Explorer run by PeruRail  is currently classified…
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Cusco and the Sacred Valley, Peru

Cusco  is a city in southeastern Peru, near the Urubamba…
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Salkantay trek, Peru

Salkantay (Nevado Salkantay), Sallqantay in Quechua is the…
  • Latin America

Puerto Maldonaldo, Peru

Puerto Maldonado is a city in Southeastern Peru in the Amazon…
  • Latin America

Lima, Peru

Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is…
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Chiswick, London

Chiswick is a leafy suburb to the west of Central London. The…
  • Europe

G-OFIT, Socata TB10

G-OFIT is a TB10 based at White Waltham Aerodrome near…
  • Flying

Sharm el Sheikh

Just a week in the sun…in a Sharm el Sheikh almost…
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Perranporth, England

Perranporth is a small seaside resort town on the north coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Newquay and 7 miles northwest of Truro. There is little to beat flying into Perranporth Airfield, originally built during World War II as an RAF fighter station, is now a civil airfield located on the plateau above the cliffs.
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Lemon and friends, London

Just a few shots from my new Nikon D800, which is a delight to…
  • Europe

Kraków, Poland

Kraków is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River (Polish: Wisła) in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century.

  • Europe

Khajuraho, India

The Khajuraho Group of Monuments in Khajuraho, a town in…
  • Asia

Bombay, India

Mumbai, also known by its former name Bombay, is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Four generations of my family have now worked in Mumbai or been there for a short visit.
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Bandhavgarh, India

Bandhavgarh National Park  is one of the popular national…
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Varanasi, India

Varanasi (also known as Benares, Banaras or Kashi), is a city…
  • Asia

Canary Wharf, London

Canary Wharf is a major business district located in Tower…
  • Europe

Airfields and Sights, UK & France

Pictures taken on flying trips around the UK and…
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  • Flying

Floods near Gloucester, United Kingdon

Flooding in Gloucestershire created a major problem for many…
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Dunsfold, United Kingdom

Dunsfold Park is home to Wings and Wheels, an annual air and…
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  • Flying

Brick Lane, London

Brick Lane is a street in East London, England, in the London…
  • Europe

Florida, United States of America

Wildlife in Florida live in the cities and towns, but also in…
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London, United Kingdom

London is the capital city of England and of the United…
  • Europe

Chichen Itza, Mexico

Chichen Itza (“at the mouth of the well of…
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Saigon, Indo China

Captain Frost, my father, was posted to Indochina (Operation…
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West London, United Kingdom

London is the greatest city. It may no longer be the biggest,…
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Erbil, Iraq

Erbil has a population of about 1 million people and is the…
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Zanzibar

Spent just over a week spent in Zanzibar in a big resort with…
  • Africa

Burundi

Burundi (pronounced [buˈɾundi]), officially the Republic of…
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Basra

The evening started well enough, with a fruit cocktails on the…
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Leigh-on-Sea, England

The town of Leigh-on-Sea is situated on the northern side of…
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Baghdad, Iraq

Telecommunications tower in Baghdad, taken from my room in the…
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Versailles, France

Another visit to Versailles, this time in a rugby tour with…
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New York, United States of America

Two short visits in a year to Norwalk, CT in 2008. One trip in…
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Connecticut, United States of America

I hired a Cessna 172 from a flying club in Danbury Municipal…
  • Americas

Dubai, UAE

Two emirates and a whole lot of cranes. According to one…
  • Middle East

Ju ju man, Nigeria

The village is on the shores of the lagoon – known as…
  • Africa

Lagos, Nigeria

The village is on the shores of the lagoon – known as…
  • Africa

Munich, Germany

It was the 60th anniversary of the founding of Isráel –…
  • Europe

Milan, Italy

Milano in June is hot and damp. The city lies under a cloud of…
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Masai Mara, Kenya

This was our second visit to the Masai Mare. This time we…
  • Africa

Athens, Greece

Just a few days in Athens in May – colder than I had…
  • Europe

Washington DC, United States of America

Just a few days in Washington DC for an FCPA conference. Spent…
  • Americas

Cocli market, northern Vietnam

Cocli market is not easy to find, but well worth the time…
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Sa Pa, Vietnam

Sa Pa, or Sapa, is a frontier town and capital of Sa Pa…
  • Far East

Bangkok, Thailand

Bangkok is the capital and the most populous city…
  • Far East

Notting Hill Carnival, London

The Notting Hill Carnival is an annual event that since 1964…
  • Europe

Vientiane, Laos

Vientiane (/vjɛnˈtjɑːn/; French…
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Mekon river trip, Laos

Entering Laos by travelling down the Mekon river from Thailand…
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Luang Prabang temples, Laos

Religion is one of the most important social forces in…
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Luang Prabang market, Laos

Entering Laos by travelling down the Mekon river from Thailand…
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The Killing Fields, Cambodia

The Killing Fields are a number of sites in Cambodia where…
  • Far East

Ta Prohm, Cambodia

Ta Prohm (Khmer: ប្រាសាទតាព្រហ្ម)is the modern name of the…
  • Far East

Siem Reap, Cambodia

In 2007, we headed out to the Far East and toured Laos,…
  • Far East

People

Photographs of people from around the world.
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Vietnam

This was a trip from Hanoi to Saigon, passing through Hue,…
  • Asia

Richmond Park, London

Living in Chiswick, means that Richmond Park is just a…
  • Europe

Oman

Just over a week in Oman – with some time on the beach,…
  • Middle East

People, Sri Lanka

This is a collection of photographs of some of the people we…
  • Asia

Sigiriya, Sri Lanka

Sigiriya (Lion Rock) is located in the central Matale…
  • Asia

Maldives

A week on the Taj Coral reef, marked by great diving and some…
  • Asia

Brecon Beacons, Wales

Just a short weekend break to the ‘Bacon’ Beacons…
  • Europe

Wild life

Photographs of wildlife taken in Africa and India. Most of the…
  • Africa
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Monastaries, Tibet

Now recovering from the damage inflicted by previous Chinese…
  • Asia

Kalahari desert, South Africa

Leaving Namibia behind, we drove back into South Africa. Our…
  • Africa

southern Namibia

One visit was not enough. This time, it was a flight to Cape…
  • Africa

Namib desert, Nambia

The Republic of Namibia is in southwestern Africa, on the…
  • Africa

Morocco

After a few days in Marrakech in 1999, we travelled over the…
  • North Africa

Agra, India

Travelling in a hired car with a driver, Wendy and I, drove…
  • Asia

Kashmir, India

In 1989, Kashmir was about to enter into a period of unrest…
  • Asia

Israel

Arriving in Haifa in 1987, my journey took me down through the…
  • Middle East

Spain

It was a long journey in a small car, but one that left…
  • Europe

Athens, Greece 1987

What better place to start a journey in 1987 than Athens. Ten…
  • Europe

Turkey

My arrival in Istanbul in January 1987 after a long bus ride…
  • Asia
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Egypt

From Cairo to Alexandria, back to Cairo and then down south by…
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  • North Africa

Beijing, China

Beijing in 1987 was very different from Beijing today. No…
  • Far East

Karakoram Highway, Pakistan

The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved international…
  • Asia

Shandur Pass, Pakistan

It was 1987,  in the mountains between Chitral and Gilgit.…
  • Asia

Chitral, Pakistan

By sheer luck, a very helpful officer from PIA and some bloody…
  • Asia

Kashgar, China

Crossing the Karakoram mountains into China, the Karakoram…
  • Asia

Gyanste, Tibet

Gyantse (also spelled Gyangtse) is a town located in Gyantse…
  • Asia

Lhasa, Tibet

The autumn of 1987 found me in Tibet. Arriving by plane from…
  • Asia

1987 Lhasa riot, Tibet

The first of October is also Chinese National Day. Just after…
  • Asia

Chomolhari, Tibet

Jomolhari (Dzongkha) or Qomo Lhari (Tibetan:; Wylie: jo mo lha…
  • Asia

Nepal

After two months in Tibet in 1987, Nepal provided a wealth of…
  • Asia

Thailand

The elephant took us on a seven hour trek up to one of the…
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Malaysia

Taking the train from Bangkok in 1987, Nitza and I travelled…
  • Far East

Hong Kong – 1906 typhoon

On September 18 1906 a typhoon with tsunami killed an…
  • Far East

Japan in 1907

In 1907, Austin Frost, then a doctor in the British Army,…
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China in 1906

In 1906, Austin Frost, my grandfather, was in China. This…
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India in the days of the Raj

Several of these picture must have been taken in 1917 to…
  • Asia

Budapest

Just a short weekend break – to discover that Budapest…
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India

Bandhavgarh National Park (Devanagari: बांधवगढ राष्ट्रीय…
  • Asia

Hoi An, Vietnam

Hoi An was a jewel, attracting tourists in their droves with…
  • Far East

WWII in the Far East

After spending a year based on the Khyber, my father, Tom…
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  • Far East

Iran

My grandfather, a doctor in the British Army marched through…
  • Middle East