To process GPS tracks on my travels, I use the GPS Visualizer.

There are also some interesting world maps, firstly to show time zones, and secondly, to show the relative sizes of the world's countries: Mercator Misconceptions, and True Size

2024

Europe

See the full story at our Europe trip around Andalusia and Croatia.

2023

Vietnam

We travel to Vietname and Cambodia with an APT package tour. For details, see our Vietnam and Cambodia Trip

Tasmania

We are to circumnavigate Tasmania in the Ponant yacht Le Laperouse (sic!) in Dec 2023. Details in the usual blog and web page Tasmania.

2022

It is now two years on from our disastrous attempt to see Morocco, and we have plucked up the courage to (re)embark on the second half of our 2020 plans, or at least the trip to Seattle to see our son and daughter-in-law. As in 2020, we have booked with Holland America to return from the US via the cruise ship "MS Noordam", sailing via Hawaii and Tahiti, and many islands across the Pacific. For more details, visit my Trans Pacific Part II page.

2020

We planned two overseas trips in 2020:

1. In March we travelled to Morocco to join with our friends the Morgans and Robinsons to celebrate the women's joint 70th birthdays. We booked on The Highlights of Morocco , starting Sat 14 Mar 2020. However, the tour was "suspended" after only half a day, and the second half of our trip, to be around southern Spain, was impossible due to the Corona Virus lockdown. My blog (such as it is) is online
2. In September we planned to travel firstly to France for a river cruise on the Rhone River, and then to Seattle, to see our son's new renovated house, uplifted by two storeys!
   But of course, Covid-19 intervened, and the trip was cancelled.

2019

We flew into Paris, spent several days there, then trained to Amboise where we met our friends the Morgans and explored Amboise. From Amboise we travelled again by train to Reims, checking out the champagne country, before moving on to Bruges (beautiful city!), then via Antwept (wonderful railway station!) to Amsterdam, where we did an eight day cycle tour around tulip and cheese country.

Leaving our friends in Amsterdam, we headed south to Zurich, where we spent Easter Sunday travelling on the Bernina Express to St Moritz, then to Milan and on to Civitavecchia, where we embarked upon a 12-day cruise to Dover, via Alicante, Malaga, Gibraltar, Lisbon, Porto, Bordeaux (catching up with our friends the Robsons), and Guernsey.

We had a BritRail Pass, and used that to get from Dover to Brighton, Brighton to York, York to London (via Edinburgh!), and then flew home from Heathrow. A veritable Cook's Tour! Read all about it in my blog at Europe 2019 .

2018

We enjoyed a Holland America relocation cruise across The Pacific. This was made all the more enjoyable by travelling with our friends the MacMillans and the Porters. We (all) spent several days in Vancouver, and then we went our separate ways to visit our various children and spouses. We kicked on to Seattle, and enjoyed a road trip south to Oregon.

2017

Jun 2017 sees us staying in Australia, and travelling to the Kimberleys. We are travelling on an APT package tour (in spite of their past history!), and along with the South American trip, represents one of our more adventurous travels.

But we are travelling OS as well: to Greece and Crete

2016

In Jul-Aug 2016 we are doing another Holland-America cruise Voyage of the Vikings, this time a round trip from Boston across the Atlantic to Rotterdam and back, coincidentally on the MV Rotterdam (in which we have not sailed before).

2015

Jan-Mar in 2015 we circumnavigated South America in the MV Prinsendam. This was a 10-week cruise, the longest we have undertaken, and hit several of the items on our bucket list:

1. Traversing the Panama Canal
2. Visiting Antarctica (we visited the Arctic in 2011 and travelled as far north as 81 degrees North).
3. Travelling up the Amazon - we travel all the way to Manaus to visit the Opera House there.

There are a number of lessons learnt on this cruise that need to be carried forward to the next. These are:

1. The internet is slow.
2. Reduce all non-essential email traffic by clearing the decks before you leave, and ensuring that as little spam as possible makes its way to the inbox.
3. Items for uploading to home servers should be short and few. Investigate ways of trimming photographs down to sending as few as possible.

Then in November, we travelled to Norfolk Island with our regular companions, the Morgans and the Robinsons (women turning 65 occasion). Read all about it in Barb's blog,

2014

In 2014 we did the popular European River Cruise, from Amsterdam to Prague. Check out the itinerary and blog at my 2014 River Cruise page.

Some of our friends, like us, are in the "grey nomad" set, and also like us, maintain various blogs. Here's a selection:

• Ann and Ian McMillan: travelling around Australia, 14 Apr 2014 -
• Donna and Jim Robinson: travels in UAE, India and Sri Lanka, 29 Jan - 10 Mar 2014
• Donna and Jim Robinson: travels in Italy, 10-23 Oct 2013
• Donna and Jim Robinson: travels in Turkey, 14-25 Oct 2012

2013

In late 2013 we went round-the worlding again, focussing upon the Cinque Terre and Amalfi coasts in Italy, then Jersey, then Seattle, before returning to Australia to undertake the circumnavigation cruise around Australia. Again, the web page where you can read all about it is at my 2013 Round-World and Round-Australia voyage .

2012

In 2012 we did another round-the-world trip, but less hectic than in 2006. Only three major stops: (2 days in Singapore), 2 weeks in France-Alsace, 2 weeks in Seattle, 2 and a bit weeks in Tahiti. Read all about it on my 2012 Round-the-World Page

2011

From 8 Jul 2011 to 2 Sep 2011 my wife and I travelled to Hervey Bay, Dubai, Bordeaux, Saint Pee sur Nivelle, Gravesend, then on MV Prinsendam to Scrabster, Lerwick, Torshavn, Djupivogur, Reykjavik, Ny Alesund, Longyearbyen, Alesund, Bergen, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Kiel Canal, Tallin, St Petersburg, Helsinki, Visby, Copenhagen, Oslo, then Tilbury where we disembarked, transferred to Heathrow and flew home via Dubai again. Read all about it on my 2011 Cruise Page

1994

Blast from the past here. I found some old manuscripts detailing our trip to New Zealand in 1994. They are loose leaves, and as I clean them up, they will get transcribed to these pages. Enjoy!

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