The train from Turin arrived at La Spezia more or less on time but with the end of day crowds at the station I didn’t quite have enough time to catch the connection back one stop to Riomaggiore but this gave me time to visit the Cinque Terre office and pick up a map and […]
Travel Postcard – A Morning in Turin
Night had already fallen the previous evening by the time I’d arrived on the TGV from Paris and checked in to my hotel, so there was no chance of a dusk photo shoot, but after a bite to eat I wandered round the clean and spacious floodlit squares in the centre of Turin to get […]
Travel Postcard – Lunch in Paris…
A cheap flight to Pisa would probably have been the quickest way to start off my recent trip to the Cinque Terre on Italy’s lovely Ligurian coast, but as it was a birthday trip I wanted to do something a bit special and opted for travelling overland by train, which has always been my favourite […]
Travel Postcard – Fife Coastal Path from Kingsbarns
In this travel postcard, Mark heads to Scotland and explores the Fife Coast from Kingsbarns up to St Andrews… I took an early bus in St Andrews headed down the coast towards Crail and got off at the pretty village of Kingsbarns. I’d noticed Buddo Rock and the Rock and Spindle formations on my […]
Travel Postcard – The Line to Cromer Pier
In Mark’s second “travel postcard” he explores the North Norfolk coast around the lovely town of Cromer… After a day and a half photographing the big city of Norwich I was in need of a breath of sea air and a trip to Cromer seemed in order, so on a pleasant late summer’s morning I […]
Travel Postcard – From Felixstowe to Felixstowe Ferry
Here’s the first of a new series “travel postcards” – short travel features with lots of photographs! Here, Mark heads to Felixstowe and enjoys a walk along the coast to Felixstowe Ferry… Mention Felixstowe and most people (including me) immediately think of a huge container port and probably not the best travel photography destination, but […]