In My Footsteps Travelogue – You really must…


Footsteps taken in…

I’m not the most traveled of people by any means but here is how far my footsteps have taken me so far which I will update as I go. Alas I have forgotten the names some lovely places I’ve been to (all the more reason to record it here for prosperity) – I must be getting old but at least I can recall what countries I’ve been to. Links to my photos included where they exist online:

Africa & the Middle East

  • Egypt
  • Jordan
  • Mauritius (oh boy! just which continent is it in?) photos
  • Tunisia
    • El Jem
    • Tunis

Asia (for some reason I don’t have much wanderlust for Asia. Each to their own)

  • Bali
    • Ubud

Australasia (I went to live/work there rather than travel but hated it so came back quickly with my tail between my legs)

  • Australia
    • Blue Mountains
    • Port Stephens
    • Sydney

Central and South America (I’d love to do so much more but it is expensive and time consuming to do)

  • Argentina
    • Bariloche Lake District
    • Buenos Aires
    • Iguazu Falls /Brazilian border
    • Patagonia
    • Perito Moreno Glacier
    • Tierra Del Fuego / Ushuaia
  • Chile
    • Puerto Natales / Torres Del Paines
  • Costa Rica photos of my best ever holiday
    • Arenal
    • Mal Pais
    • Montezuma
    • Santa Teresa
  • Cuba photos
    • Havana
    • Varadero

Europe (UK listed separately at the end)

  • Austria
    • Vienna
  • Belgium
    • Antwerp
    • Bruge
    • Brussels
    • Leuven
    • Ostend
  • Czech Republic
    • Prague (3 times)
  • France
    • Brittany – Lorient / Quimper
    • Calais
    • Cherbourg
    • Fontainebleau (bleaurgh rude people and distgusting food I wouldn’t even give to pigs as leftovers)
    • Mont St Michel
    • Paris (more times than I can remember but I don’t like it because of how rude people are except my friend from Brittany who lived there)
    • Strasbourg
  • Germany
    • Bayreuth
    • Berlin
    • Cologne
    • Frankfurt
    • Hamburg
    • Konstanz / Bodensee lake
    • Munich
    • Stuttgart
  • Hungary
    • Budapest
  • Ireland
    • Fethard on Sea photos
    • Waterford
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
    • Amsterdam
  • Poland
    • Bielsko Biala
    • Gdansk photos inc Sopot
    • Grudziadz
    • Kielce
    • Krakow
    • Lodz
    • Minsk Mazowiecki
    • Nowy Sacz
    • Sopot
    • Sw Katarzyna (Saint Katherine’s)
    • Torun
    • Warsaw photos
    • Wroclaw
    • Zakopane
  • Slovakia
    • Strebske Pleso
    • Tatranska Lomnica
  • Spain
  • Sweden
    • Archipelago
    • Malmo
    • Nykoping
    • Sigtuna (beautiful place with wooden houses on a lake)
    • Stockholm
    • Trosa (cute town with canals)
    • Upplands, Vasby
  • Turkey (2 x gulet trips – wonderful inexpensive and relaxing holiday)
    • Bodrum
    • Dalyan
    • Fethiye

North America (you can’t beat their National Parks)

USA (if I get any of the states wrong feel free to email to correct me. Contact details are in about page)

  • Arizona
    • Grand Canyon
    • Sedona
  • California family holiday photos LA to San Diego 2007
    • Anza Borrego State Park
    • Carmel
    • Death Valley
    • Desert Hot Springs
    • Los Angeles / Hollywood
    • Monterey
    • Palm Srpings
    • Sacramento
    • San Diego
    • San Francisco photos inc Yosemite and 17 mile drive
    • Santa Barbara
    • Santa Monica
    • Sequoia National Park
    • Tahoe
    • Visalia
    • Yosemite National Park photos San Francisco
  • Florida
    • Amelia Island
    • Key west
    • Miami beach and the outlets
    • Saint Augustine
  • Georgia
    • Savannah
  • Illinois
    • Chicago
    • Lake Zurich
    • Naperville
  • Nevada
    • Las Vegas
  • Utah photos
    • Arches National Park
    • Bryce Canyon National Park
    • Capitol Reef National Park
    • Canyonlands National Park
    • Moab
    • Monument Valley
    • Zion National Park

UK (because it is important to see the beautiful and interesting places on your doorstep too)

England

  • Abingdon
  • Arundel
  • Bath
  • Brighton photos
  • Bristol
  • Cambridge
  • Canterbury
  • Chichester
  • Cornwall and Devon
    • Bude
    • Clovelly
    • Dartmoor
    • Exmoor
    • Gweek Seal Sanctuary
    • Lands End
    • Landewednack
    • Lizard Point
    • Marazion
    • Minack Theatre
    • Polperro
    • Saltash
    • Sidmouth
    • St Ives
    • St Just
  • Cheddar Gorge
  • Dorset and Hampshire
    • Beaulieu village and National Motor Museum
    • Blandford Forum
    • Bournemouth photos
    • Brockenhurst
    • Bucklers Hard (don’t bother – waste of an entrance fee)
    • Chesil Beach
    • Christchurch
    • Corfe Castle
    • Dorchester
    • Durdle Door photos same as Lulworth Cove photos
    • Exbury Gardens
    • Hengistbury Head
    • Kimmeridge
    • Lepe
    • Lulworth Cove photos
    • Lyme regis
    • Lymington
    • Lyndhurst
    • Mudeford
    • New Forest
    • Poole
    • Purbeck Drive through the military testing danger zone (when they are not firing and the roads are opened for you this is a lovely route)
    • Rhinefield Drive near Rhinefield House (pop in for a cream tea if you have a tenner per head to spare or just nose around their gardens and peek in at the fabulous Moorish decor room) in the New Forest
    • Sandbanks
    • Shaftesbury (famous for the steep cobbled hill which starred in an advert for Hovis bread many moons ago)
    • Studland
    • Swanage
    • Sway
    • Wareham
    • Weymouth
    • Wimborne Minster
    • Winchester
  • Great Malvern
  • Great Yarmouth
  • Greenwich
  • Guildford
  • Hemsby
  • Henley
  • Hungerford
  • Iron Bridge
  • Isle of wight photos
    • Ventnor
    • The Needles
  • Lake District
    • Ambleside
    • Grasmere (home to Wordsworth who wondered lonely as a cloud)
    • Windermere
  • Leeds
  • Leicester
  • London
  • Marlow
  • Matlock
  • Newark n Trent
  • Norfold Broads
  • Nottingham
  • Oxford
  • Richmond Upon Thames
  • Royal Leamington Spa
  • Royal Tunbridge Wells
  • Rye
  • Salisbury
  • Skegness
  • Southend of Sea
  • Stratford Upon Avon
  • Whitstable
  • Windsor
  • Woburn village and safari park
  • Worthing
  • York

Northern Ireland

  • Belfast
  • Lurgan

Scotland Highlands trip 2002 photos

  • Durness (one of the furthest points North and the whole area is sheer beauty – visit the waterfall inside the cave)
  • Edinburgh
  • Eilean Donan Castle (got to be one of the most impressive castle settings on Loch Duich)
  • Glasgow
  • Glen Coe
  • Fort William
  • Mallaig (beautiful white sands)
  • Loch Assynt
  • Loch Lomond
  • Loch Loyal
  • Loch Ness
  • Loch Tummel / Queens View / Pitlochry
  • Lochinver (here to Durness probably my favourite Scottish scenery)
  • Tongue

Wales

  • Beddgelert
  • Betws-y-coed
  • Brecon Beacons National Park
  • Caldey Island
  • Cardiff
  • Criccieth
  • Dolgellau drive
  • Ffestiniog
  • Llanbedrog (favourite Welsh beach with great cafe/restaurant open in summer)
  • Llandudno / Great Ormes Head
  • Morfa Nefyn
  • Porthmadog
  • Portmeirion
  • Pwllheli and North Wales where my mum lives photos
  • Snowdonia
  • Tenby
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