06/08/2026
I have been quiet for while, but there is good reason, I have been writing books!
Very shortly I will be publishing my latest which is entitled, "Switzerland. Weather is fine, wish you were here", which pays homage to the message written on postcards sent back to the UK in the mid 90s. Here is a short introduction, a mock-up of the front and back cover and a couple of old photos from it. The book itself contains over 290 photos too:
"I was rudely awoken at 5.00am on Saturday July 17th, 1965, but to be fair I hadn’t slept well as excitement was overwhelming the mind of a 12-year-old. A short drive with my father, mother and sister and we arrived at ‘Beavis Travels’, a Gloucestershire coach operator, and we were about to set off on a journey. A journey for me that spans almost 60 years, and over 70 visits. This first one was a 10-day holiday, ‘The Mountains and Lakes of Switzerland’, as the brochure stated.
To so many Switzerland is Heidi, Wilhelm Tell, cheese with holes, chocolate, wood carvings, yodelling and alphorn and of course, the mountains and lakes. However, digging deeper it is so much more, and the following pages will fill in many of the pieces in the jigsaw, then you will see for yourself what a wonderful and mesmerising country it is, albeit not large by any imagination. This my own personal journal, and in no particular order, complete with almost all the photos being my own too, ones which I am pleased to share with you. Many of these photographs have been reproduced from old 35mm transparencies taken in the 1970’s & 1980’s which have been badly stored in the shed along with some scanned in photos from albums – please excuse the poor quality of some of them, many I have restored using AI, but they are still my photos. A few other photos have come from different sources, and I use these to show a place that my photos just weren’t good enough to portray satisfactorily. So, if I have unwittingly infringed anyone’s copyright I offer my sincere apologies, they are marked NMP (Not My Photo). Whether you have been to this picturesque country or not the stories will hopefully still enthral you – a country that is always full of surprises."
Keep an eye out here for more details, should be published late summer.
