Historic water town on the outskirts of Shanghai – ZhuJiaJiao Taking a brief moment from parenting to edit some of the pictures of our time in China. We remember we ran for the bus from People’s Park and stood for nearly the whole journey from the city to a well known tourist destination called ZhuJiaJiao....
After our adventures in China, this was our first little outing to the Peak District near Burbage edge for a late afternoon stroll, a cone or two of ice-cream and a few pictures. After the slightly stormy weather earlier in August, this was a much welcome return of summer sunshine to the purple heather-filled moors,...
A long weekend in Scotland Last June my brother and his wife came across from Malaysia to enjoy a ‘flying’ honeymoon tour of Europe. The itinerary left only a few days to dash up to Scotland with a break in Glasgow on the way up and Edinburgh on the way down. The main destination was...
Chinese New Year was fairly typically hot and dry this year in Ipoh; it only rained twice in our visit. So there weren’t many clouds for spectacular sunsets until the last day. The end of the sunlit day was often spent resting back in the house and on occasion there was the indication that the...
We decided to have some fun experimenting with firework photography on a family outing to see a local Chinese New Year show at Kek Lok Temple in Ipoh. It seems we weren’t the only ones as out of the half dozen tripods that sprouted in the field in front of the firework ‘zone’ we met...
