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The prologue.
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.— Oscar Wilde I’ve kept this header as it is appropriate and a reminder. It is appropriate because when you travel, though the journey may routine and mundane or exceptional and exotic. The journey is unique to each individual traveller. Each of us senses what we experience differently. So…
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A Roman Fortlet on a fine January Day

The desire to visit Outerwards Roman Fort-let sprang from two ideas, the pleasure in walking the local hills and curiosity. Late in last year while walking one the local hills, I came across an iron age fort. After that I had to see the roman version which lay about a couple of miles to the…
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Ninian South
My memory cards contain pictures of all the places that I have been. So too are the boxes at the foot of the cupboard where the analogue pictures are gradually fading. Since going to sea in 1977 a camera has always been in my luggage. First it was an Olympus Trip, a lovely little compact…
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Is distance important?
Since travel involves movement which means changing from from one location to another location. It must be essential because if you stayed in the same place you wouldn’t have travelled. For some it is but not to me. What matters is that you have made the journey. Length and time are of no interest. It…