Of Wanderings and Explorations
For just over a decade, I have been sharing the fruits of any outings that have taken to places rural and urban. In its early days, a photo gallery was my main means of doing and the name of the website reflected that until recently. In the meantime, the gallery has been joined by a blog sharing my explorations of the countryside, both on foot and by bicycle. More recently again, I have turned a skeletal website directory into a place for sharing travel writings and visit planning pointers. So far, the focus for all of this has been Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man. In a way, that shows how much there is to these places and, in truth, there is much more for me to explore yet. Hopefully, the mixture that resides here gives you some feeling for the places that are featured and why they are special. Of course, it would be even better if it inspired you to go planning some outings of your own. Thanks for coming.
Photo Gallery
Much like the universe and all its contents, the website that you find here now has come a long way from the formless void that was its first inception. However, the first thing that coalesced into something presentable was a photo gallery. The photos were captured on any outings that I happened to undertake at the time and the same principle continues to hold today. If anything has changed, it is that my excursions are more frequent these days and more likely to carry me out into the countryside than along urban streets and parks. Another change is that I often go out and try and improve on my previous efforts too. Either way, I keep adding to my collection and that should mean new additions that draw you back time and again.
Outdoors Blog
To be honest, I started the blog more as an experiment than anything else and with the aim of supplying site news and trip reports that whetted the appetite for any new photos that may be coming to the gallery. Because many of those trips involved going for walks in hill country, it started to attract hill walkers and back packers. With that encouragement, that is the route that the blog has taken (any pun is incidental rather than deliberate) and occasional cycles find their way in along with those walks. Sharing a semblance of the wonders that my exertions have brought me is why I add to my scribblings and I cannot exclude the possibility of taking in more than Britain and Ireland on my outings either.
Miscellany
With the blog leaning towards outdoors activities, there isn't much scope for adding writings purely featuring a sense of place for the locations that I have explored. Thus, what I have in mind for this part of the site is something of the character of Cumbria magazine. There were website directories on here but they felt skeletal so I built upon them and added more articles on subjects relevant to planning a visit (finding somewhere to go, what there is to see, where there is to stay and how to get there) and other related subjects. Because of its role in encouraging me to get out and about, photography finds its place here as well with a selection of online galleries that I like and photographers that I admire.