Our Holidays
This page covers our more significant vacations, from the very interesting trips we made in Russia to the fascinating places we found in the USA, and continuing with those we are making as we prepare to leave Texas to return to Europe. During our time in the USA we tried to see as much of it as possible, making summer vacation trips to Yellowstone National Park, the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Mesa Verde, Canyonlands and Arches, and many more places. If you would like to see some of the places we've visited, then you can use the links below to go to the relevant page.
We are now making trips to Europe as we prepare to return there, and there are many photos of our negotiations to become property owners in Spain. We hope you enjoy these trips from a photographic perspective, as much as we did when we were actually there.
| Summer 2006 - Late Spring and early summer spent finishing the rebuilding of our Spanish house, and then an August vacation with granddaughter, Fredi | |
| February 2006 - A few days spent in Singapore, followed by another visit to Adelaide to see Chris and Abi and of course our Grandson, Declan James | |
| May 2005 - The telescopes finally make their long awaited journey to our house in southern Spain, and to their new home | |
| Australia 2004 - In September 2004 we visited Adelaide and Melbourne in Australia. The trip had two objectives, to attend the wedding of Paul's daughter, Abi and to deliver a presentation on astrophotography to the Astronomical Society of South Australia | |
| Christmas 2003 - Yet another visit to beautiful Terlingua Ranch in west Texas. To experience once again the clear dark skies and the walking | |
| Summer 2003 - Another visit to southern Spain to find ourselves a house, and to sample once again the delights of this beautiful place | |
| Christmas and New Year 2002 - At Terlingua Ranch, west Texas, walking in the deserts and mountains | |
| Summer 2002 - A week in the UK with friends, followed by a week in the Andalucia region of southern Spain | |
| Summer 2001 - Terlingua Ranch (again!), followed by a tour of New Mexico, Arizona and west Texas | |
| Summer 2000 - Mesa Verde National Park (Colorado), Canyonlands and Arches National Parks (Utah), Grand Canyon National Park (Arizona), Petrified Forest National Park (Arizona) west Texas | |
| Christmas 2000 - Terlingua Ranch and Big Bend National Park, Texas | |
| Summer 1999 - Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming), Rocky Mountains National Park (Colorado), Grand Teton | |
| 1994 to 1998 - Yosemite, New Mexico, including Taos and the mountains around Santa Fe, and the Very Large Array radio telescope at Socorro | |
| A Walk in the Grand Canyon, Colorado - Back in 1990 Lizzie and I made a weekend visit to the Grand Canyon, where we walked down the Kaibab Trail into the Canyon, along the Tonto Trail and then climbed back out on the Bright Angel Trail. This is the story of that 24 mile trek | |