Photographs
Index of photo captions.
A departures lounge at Heathrow airport, converted from one of Battlestar Galactica’s landing bays
A field of lavender in Surrey, England
Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada: "Yes Marion, all the way to the other side"
Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada: Fleur puts our wet stuff to dry in the sun after the rain
Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada: Marion getting better shots than this one
Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada: Ray Desjardins has a rare quiet moment
Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada: Ray, Emily and Fleur find a moose
Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada: a really big tree - one of the old pines
Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada: our camp site for the Above & Beyond Adventures trip
Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada: sitting by the camp fire in the afternoon
Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada: sitting by the camp fire in the evening
Algonquin Provincial Park, Canada: tree tops - the view from the ground at our camp site
Amsterdam: a statue near the maritime museum
Amsterdam: fireworks at the millennium celebrations
Amsterdam: shutters on the front of a house
Amsterdam: the crowd at the millennium celebrations
Amsterdam: the stage at the millennium celebrations
Antwerp: one of the more unusual statues at the toll house by the river
Antwerp: the Antwerp Hilton - no connection to Hilton Harbour whatsoever
Antwerp: the Antwerp Hilton - no connection to Hilton Harbour whatsoever
Antwerp: they thought it was a game so they joined in - Marion, Mukund and Chris
At sea on ‘Logica’: Chris and Johan chat on deck, amidst rolling seas
At sea on ‘Logica’: Marko and Mascha watching the sea go by
At sea on ‘Logica’: Marko, Monique and Chris
At sea on ‘Logica’: a cold October morning at sea
At sea on ‘Logica’: a darkening sky over the North Sea
At sea on ‘Logica’: a stormy North Sea
At sea on ‘Logica’: finally making it out of the storm an into Ramsgate harbour
At sea on ‘Logica’: getting ready to set sail - also known as faffing about on deck
At sea on ‘Logica’: nearing the British coast in a force eight gale
At sea on ‘Logica’: on watch at dawn in the North Sea
At sea on ‘Logica’: setting the sails for the first but not the last time...
At sea on ‘Logica’: setting the sails off the Dutch coast as we leave Scheveningen
At sea on ‘Logica’: the setting sun as we head West for England
At sea on ‘Logica’: waving good bye to fine weather in Scheveningen before heading out to sea
Avénue de la Liberté, Luxembourg
Boston Tea Party in Bristol, England: my favourite cafe in Europe
Budapest: a stereo photo of the parliament building
Budapest: a view of the parliament building
Budapest: full of stark contrasts between the grand and the grotty
Budapest: many smart squares in the city centre
Budapest: the big posh cafe I went to has leather sofas inside.
Budapest: the railway station was a very grand start to the day
Cafe Central, Echternach, Luxembourg
Cafe Hoegaarden, Antwerp, Belgium
Cafe MAK, with adjoining museum, Vienna
Cambridge: Carl Dolby’s famous beer bottle collection, shortly before we took it to the bottle bank
Cambridge: Daniel Sturdy in CB2
Cambridge: Indigo Coffee House
Cambridge: Peter and the PI cycle team on Midsummer Common after having cycled from London
Cambridge: the neon sign outside the Picturehouse cinema
Cambridge: the rum collection in Cambridge Blue, one of the proper pubs
Camden: Camden Lock is an oasis of calm in North London
Canine canoe race: Leiden, the Netherlands
Construction at the World Trade Center south of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
De Drie Graefjes cafe, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Dublin on a Saturday morning - everyone is still in bed!
Edinburgh: looking East down the Royal Mile
Edinburgh: looking North from the castle
Edinburgh: near the city centre
Félix Faure, when it was my local metro station
Fleur, Alex, Dave and Silvia on the staircase
Fleur, Peter and Marc go paddling in the lake at La Peche, Canada
Gail struts her stuff at my birthday party in 2001
Judith, her car, Takeshi and our beers
Kaffee Alt Wien, just right for a beer in Vienna
Katie Walker and myself in Maastricht, the Netherlands
Kleines Cafe, an excellent small cafe in Vienna
La Creperie, a pancake restaurant in Vienna
La Palette, my favourite cafe in France - rue de Seine, 6th arr., Paris, France
Lancing, England, where I grew up
Languages Of The World - the book by Kenneth Katzner
Le Loir dans la Théière (has sofas), rue des Rosiers, Paris, France
Leiden in the summer: so relaxed, there is even a sofa outside
Luxembourg’s big red bridge, also known as the Pont Grand-Duchesse Charlotte
Luxembourg’s big red bridge, also known as the Pont Grand-Duchesse Charlotte
Maastricht: clocks on lampposts are nothing out of the ordinary
Maastricht: sitting outside the Falstaff in summer, with a glass of Wickse Witte
Maastricht: the flag in the main square
Maastricht: the terrace of Cafe de Percee
Marc Smits on the edge of the lake at La Peche, Canada
Marion Smits, Alex Zeffertt, Carl Dolby and Pascale Garaud in my back garden, in Weybridge, England
Marion and a sofa in Disco Biscuit, Queens Road, Brighton, England
Marion drinks a Manhattan in Montreal, Canada
Marion enjoying the sofa upstairs in Puccinos, Brighton
Marion reading the paper (1998)
Marion’s cocktail in Montreal, Canada
News Cafe, a bistro in Oxford, England
Péché Mignon cafe, rue de St Esprit, Luxembourg
Peter Hilton, Anusha Edwards and Alison Noble in Bristol, 1994
Peter Lloyd philosophises at my birthday party in 2001
Peter Lloyd speaking at his fortieth birthday in Croscombe, England
Peter goes paddling at La Peche, Canada
Peter out hunting cafes in the Grund, Luxembourg
Peter, Angus and Takeshi on the way home from Chiggeri, rue du Nord, Luxembourg
Peter, aged five, at South Lancing Primary School
Quieter than Histon - the village I used to get the train to every the morning.
Ref enjoys a drink at my birthday party in 2001
Repairs to Big Ben (St Stephen’s Tower)? London, England
Reservoir Books, a cafe-bookshop in Oxford, England
Richard dancing with Gail at my birthday party in 2001
Rotterdam: De Buffel - a ship at the maritime museum
Rotterdam: Joost on a Logica Photo Club outing (photo: Marion)
Rotterdam: a swan near where I live
Rotterdam: arty reflected shot of Peter in at the harbour (photo: Marion)
Rotterdam: the Erasmusbrug viewed from the river - the Nieuwe Maas
Sitting around in the Boston Tea Party cafe, Exeter, England
Takeshi and Nasera modelling the armchairs upstairs in cafe Sul Palco, Luxembourg
Takeshi making a batch of sangria
The Logica office in Wijnhaven, in the centre Rotterdam, the Netherlands
The Ministry Of Health, Luxembourg
The Ministry Of Health, Luxembourg
The Old Hall - a Landmark Trust property in Croscombe, England
The bar is about the most conventional thing in Das Mobel
The bookcase in Das Mobel is slightly more easily identifiable than most of the furniture
The first cafe I went to in Budapest is even posher i than it looks from the o
The first-floor facade of the Picturehouse cinema, Cambridge, England
The impressively large rum collection at Comida y Ron, Vienna
The main dining hall in Christchurch College, Oxford University, England
The rose garden on Avénue de la Liberté, Luxembourg
The totem pole in Great Windsor Park, England
The vast upstairs room in the Boston Tea Party cafe, Exeter, England
They’ve got sofas! Puccinos, 1 Bartholemews, Brighton, England
Upstairs, inside De Drie Graefjes cafe, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Vegan Power! Graffitied modern ruins by the Thames in Oxford, England
Vienna: Cafe Aera’s toilet models Vienna itself - stylish, and impeccably clean
Vienna: Heldenplatz is always full of people on a sunny day
Vienna: Michaelaplatz is typical of Vienna’s grandeur
Vienna: a dramatic skyline against its old buildings and statues
Vienna: all around town the facades seem to be smart, and often prettily decorated
Vienna: childrens’ play houses on a square
Vienna: inside Cafe Aera, my favourite of the more modern cafes
Vienna: it’s got books and a sofa, but Vienna Globe is still a rubbish cafe
Vienna: skateboarders making the most of the town hall
Vienna: the main cathedral, with its patterned roof tiles
Vienna: the roof of the natural history museum (I think)
Vienna: the stained glass window of one of the churches
Vienna: the view from the office where I worked at the UN
View across the river Adur to the skyline of Shoreham-by-sea, West Sussex, England
Walsall: a very industrial character
Walsall: some of the canalside locations are quite pleasant on those rare sunny days
You get quite close to your colleagues as a House Officer
a bridge in Cambridge, England
a carriage in an old British train
a pub in Dublin - a welcome sight at any time of day
a sign somewhere in Luxembourg
cardboard matches, which I recently learned how to light without breaking
i Péché Mignon cafe, rue de St Esprit, Luxembourg
inside Café des Tramways, Luxembourg
musicians in Vianden, Luxembourg
my favourite cafe with books - CB1, Cambridge, England
my favourite road sign: ball games allowed, in Luxembourg
not your average bus - a Routemaster on Pont Adolphe, Luxembourg
o cafe ’t Smalle, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
sofas upstairs in Disco Biscuit, Queens Road, Brighton, England
the cathedral in Condom, France
the dark, welcoming interior of Cafe Sperl, Vienna
the front of Cafe Sperl, Vienna
the railway station at Betzdorf, Luxembourg
the sort of proper armchair that every cafe should have, Puccinos, 1 Bartholemews, Brighton, England