Category: Sabbatical

That was some week! I’m a month into my sabbatical, have been to Norway and Madrid, about to go to New York, with Japan and Australia coming up at the end of the month…and yet I had one of the best weeks of my life …

“How’s the sabbatical going?” “So what do you do all day now that you’re not working?” “Do you get up at, like, 12 o’clock?” “Do you miss work?” “When and where are you off next?” These seem to be the regular questions I get asked …

My sabbatical rolls on! After Norway, there was no rest as a couple of days later I was on my way to Newcastle and Nottingham with my two mates Si and Chief for a couple of random nights out. Two days after that, I was off …

I wake up, sad to be leaving in a few hours. I go to breakfast and chat to the friendly guy from Somerset who’s staying on for the full twelve days, and now I wish that I was too. I gather up my stuff and …

7am and I need to get up. It looks bright outside and although I have had sunsets, I haven’t had a sunrise yet. The lazy part of me reminds me it’s a holiday and a bed’s there to be slept in, but the photographer side …

I wake up to sunrise poking through the clouds over mountains on the horizon. Breakfast, and then more photography outside. We pass under a bridge whose type seems to be common in these parts, connecting various islands and bridging fjords. I spend a few hours writing …

Twenty years ago to this very day, I had the delight of seeing Paris for the first time. I was encapsulated by all the man-made structures and the beauty of the surroundings on that St. Valentine’s Day. Now, exactly twenty years on, I am astounded …

Full write up soon, but…oh…my…god…… last night’s display of the Northern Lights  was awesome!! Wish I could capture all of it, but the sights were out of this world. It swayed, it drifted, it glowed, it danced above our heads as we drifted past darkened …