https://gillshaddick.net/gallery daily 0.75 2016-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1442918751673-BI7WY6NDULIIIOITZP4P/IMG_5572.JPG Photo Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452209570791-BCQZMQ3YD248K08LAP6Y/image-asset.jpeg Photo Gallery - Hong Kong 1969 I learned to scuba dive. My dear friend Greta and I had our wet suits custom made and the proprietor took photos. We were embarrassed, the wet-suits added several pounds to our svelte figures. But we didn't expect anyone to see the blown up photos in the down-market area where his business was situated. It took about three days ... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452210301240-279OG5N5RBI5D5DU4RLG/image-asset.jpeg Photo Gallery - Hong Kong Sailing Twiggy and I on Peta Ann sailing in Hong Kong. Six months later we would sail off on a remarkable adventure together. I had to do a second-take - my brain said he was holding a mobile phone, it was 1969! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452210561503-T3TH8LQZUWZFCRE25NP9/image-asset.jpeg Photo Gallery Twiggy and John on the Peta Ann, Hong Kong 1969. Both these guys feature in my upcoming memoir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452211488189-645OLZVFK6ZJVVVR8S0O/Blog+Photo%281%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Chinese New Year 1969 Aberdeen in the 1960s was a thriving fishing village in the South of Hong Kong Island. Chinese New Year was the only time the whole fleet stayed home and it was a fantastic time to visit and watch all the fun and activity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452221356493-33H5ACKR9LUMDFA55ZTP/Blog+Photo%283%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Gill with Repulse Bay, Hong Kong, in Background You can see a glimpse here of the old Repulse Bay Hotel before it was pulled down after I left Hong Kong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452221456311-C2DMC1LGQW7MM746K9UM/Blog+Photo%284%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Hong Kong Sunsets Gerry at the Cafe and Enterprise Sailing Dinghies on Stanley Beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452221459080-BR3JSIX8Z21JOQG21ORT/Blog+Photo%285%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Hong Kong Junks 1969 Often we sailed past wonderfully photogenic junks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452221479465-PZ2EJ0J8KTJNFS70DZF9/Blog+Photo%286%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Enterprises on Stanley Beach, Hong Kong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452221469435-Z06SLL3B8M43LL2I3ZBY/Blog+Photo%287%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Lau Fau Shan Oyster Beds & Market, New Territories, Hong Kong 1970 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452221476368-B55GS5LMGFCQ51OB6J26/Blog+Photo%288%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Working in Hong Kong 1968-1970 My office was near the Hilton and the Hong Kong Cricket Ground. Connie Tang was my assistant and is pictured here in the office we shared. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452221491028-KS41F0JJYE2KUAB7KUY5/Blog+Photo%289%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Gerry at work in Hong Kong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452221487911-ZHV6WIT6R9VJ7UXZTKEA/Blog+Photo%2810%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Gill Hong Kong 1969 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452221572938-MY3PHRG0QVNIRD3C4U5G/Blog+Photo%2811%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Sailing at Gordon Hard, New Territories, Hong Kong 1969 Competition sailing but this glorious spot could also quickly become very rough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452221571507-DT3XIC588KWUV0QZ2SEI/Blog+Photo%2812%29.jpg Photo Gallery - After Work in Hong Kong, I played Sailing, capsizing and water-skiing after work in Hong Kong, 1969/1970 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452221586758-EYWLP4CMUQFU81Q1IBBC/Blog+Photo%2813%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Stanley Beach, Hong Kong 1969 Ah Loong and his granddaughter at work on Stanley Beach. Ah Loong looked after the boats for the army sailing club. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452221609727-HIND2S99BPKZFE41MWCY/Blog+Photo%2815%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Hong Kong Friendships 1960s Takako and Greta on Stanley Beach when Greta taught me how to swim and a picture of Takako in Macau. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452221602490-Z9ZU8KJXTIMLSZY4KOUJ/Blog+Photo%2816%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Stanley Market, Hong Kong 1969/70 This was my local shopping centre! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452225405477-2FP3E7ZUJN2NU0RKFOGE/Blog+Photo%2817%29.jpg Photo Gallery - Hong Kong Skyline The perspectives are not the same but it does give some idea - the first drawing is 1970 and the second is a recent stock photo.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452225409162-DQ0GL5GRLZIDN29S4XDZ/Blog+Photo%2818%29.jpg Photo Gallery - APB Advertising 1968 - 1970 A look at the advertising campaigns we ran in the late 1960s at the Advertising & Publicity Bureau! https://gillshaddick.net/journey daily 0.75 2024-06-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1451973481770-2BPG0PHLPGM4Y015EP5E/headernew.jpg The Writer's Journey https://gillshaddick.net/journey/princecharming monthly 0.5 2022-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/3e22e887-4459-4f03-a6c9-5808e6a7e4b8/Young+Betty1937.jpg The Writer's Journey - A Prince Charmed at the Fair by a Hong Kong Steam Roller - Make it stand out This is a picture of Betty in 1937. It is the first time I found a picture of her young and engaging and determined. Later she was so formidable I found it difficult to see how she had charmed them all. This picture says it all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/8b63d28e-f9f3-44fe-b13c-4fd35c8559f3/1934.PNG The Writer's Journey - A Prince Charmed at the Fair by a Hong Kong Steam Roller - Make it stand out Models paraded this grand stairway at Olympia each year at the BIF for a fabulous show of British fashion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/0516f461-397b-4da9-999f-657e6b571b38/Queen+Mary.PNG The Writer's Journey - A Prince Charmed at the Fair by a Hong Kong Steam Roller - Make it stand out Queen Mary visited the British Industries Fair every year and was a keen supporter of stands from the dominions, colonies and territories of the British Empire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/81c4da14-6cd6-45f3-918e-08903e5afc37/Blog1.PNG The Writer's Journey - A Prince Charmed at the Fair by a Hong Kong Steam Roller - Make it stand out Trade posters from British Iindustries Fairs in the 1930s - 1932, 1934 and 1937 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/b191c9cd-b601-45aa-a13f-dfb919fc3328/1939e.PNG The Writer's Journey - A Prince Charmed at the Fair by a Hong Kong Steam Roller - Make it stand out This is the 1939 stand, sadly I cannot find an image of the famous 1933 stand where Queen Mary stopped to stare and Betty toasted the Prince of Wales with champagne. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/part-3-the-sister-ships monthly 0.5 2022-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/495e4730-a4c7-43c2-8ac2-3084b1626b28/Poster1.PNG The Writer's Journey - Part 3 : The Sister Ships - Make it stand out This poster is undated - probably around 1915.. The ship in the distance is one of the Egypt Class sister ships. My grandfather, Jimmy, sailed from Tilbury to India on one of them, the SS Arabia. The poster powerfully suggests the enchantment of heading East at the beginning of a new millennium. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/0c417772-c3c6-43d2-a11f-35116a6579a0/William+de+Morgan.PNG The Writer's Journey - Part 3 : The Sister Ships - Make it stand out William De Morgan - 1839-1917 - the most important ceramic artist of The Arts and Crafts Movement.. Look up his work, and you may find it familiar! I delight in his images. “De Morgan has a progressive and resourceful mind, accepting the ancient and simple traditions of the crafts, but not content to rest there” – May Morris (Daughter of designer William Morris who followed in her father’s footsteps designing embroidery and jewellery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/da917ea9-55b4-48eb-b555-cc21cebb2dc9/Thomas+Collcutt.PNG The Writer's Journey - Part 3 : The Sister Ships - Make it stand out Thomas Edward Collcutt, English architect 1840-1924 - He designed several iconic London buildings https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/001b625c-b7b8-434c-8c2d-8423871886c4/Arabia+in+the+Thames+P%26O+Archive.PNG The Writer's Journey - Part 3 : The Sister Ships - Make it stand out The SS Arabia in the Thames near Tilbury. “She was elegant - long and sleek. Her hull, twin funnels and masts were fashionably painted all in black.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/7e820310-ee01-4021-b07f-8848e5cbb4ba/SS+Arabia+passageway.PNG The Writer's Journey - Part 3 : The Sister Ships - Make it stand out A passageway on the SS Arabia. Note De Morgan’s tile panel in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/5055642a-b1a4-4513-aa58-31ddaa09af50/ss+arabia+smoking+room+V%26A.PNG The Writer's Journey - Part 3 : The Sister Ships - Make it stand out One of the De Morgan panels from the SS Arabia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/413b45ad-cfd1-43e9-96f4-63c602defe05/Smoking+room+on+SS+India.PNG The Writer's Journey - Part 3 : The Sister Ships - Make it stand out This is the smoking room of the SS India, a sister ship to the SS Arabia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/842c8c0a-53e2-4b1c-9999-e2d724f4b831/Laun+ch+ss+india.PNG The Writer's Journey - Part 3 : The Sister Ships - Make it stand out Launch of SS India in 1896, the first of the Egypt Class sister ships - built by Caird & Co, Greenock on the Clyde. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/726d8078-6e39-48a9-81f0-032830357236/ss+India+dining+room.PNG The Writer's Journey - Part 3 : The Sister Ships - Make it stand out Dining room on SS India - sister ship of SS Arabia. The dining chairs were fixed to the deck with rotating seats. Dining was at long communal tables. It was the same in many restaurants of the day. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/part-2-jimmy-sets-sail-8f3js monthly 0.5 2022-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/7d2ab808-1a2b-444d-ade2-0590610a9a25/FotoJet+%281%29.jpg The Writer's Journey - Part 2 : Jimmy Sets Sail - Make it stand out Marconi at work and his famous Marconigrams. Ship to Shore radio meant shipping could be warned of storms at sea, The applications of wireless telegraphy for peace and war were endless and were the precursors to all our internet communications today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/0d752e88-c1c4-4fc0-9223-617db4fb6279/FotoJet.jpg The Writer's Journey - Part 2 : Jimmy Sets Sail - Make it stand out You must agree that Edmund Dulac’s castle and The Cairngorm Hotel could look very similar to a five-year old. On the far right of the black & white photo is the turret where my grandparents stayed . The two bottom Dulac illustrations are perhaps more of what I expected when I got to look inside the turret… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/56934b38-76fe-43a3-9306-16eb03006427/FotoJet+%281%29.jpg The Writer's Journey - Part 2 : Jimmy Sets Sail - Make it stand out The beautiful embossed cover of the first edition of The Jungle Book published in 1894 and a Just So Edition of 1902. We had a copy of this edition in the house when I was growing up. Kipling actually has some marvellous quotes that have better stood the test of time and are worth looking up, but this one fitted better here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/b87de683-1f56-44f7-9918-253eb4b17494/ssArabia.PNG The Writer's Journey - Part 2 : Jimmy Sets Sail - Make it stand out P&O’s ss Arabia was the ship that my grandfather, Jimmy, boarded at Tilbury docks on 16 November 1907. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/603dd98b-bc01-4792-b046-66bbb488d234/FotoJet.jpg The Writer's Journey - Part 2 : Jimmy Sets Sail - Make it stand out The Tiitan on Clydeside is 150 ft tall and was the world’s first electrically powered cantilever crane. The shipyards are gone but the crane is still there. It’s a tourist attraction now and brightly lit at night. The photo of the Steven & Struthers brochure is one produced around 1910, after Jimmy returned from his overseas trip. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/the-pairing-of-phantoms-and-foot-prints monthly 0.5 2022-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/4ebdff92-6eb7-469c-9df2-f8890d46ec4d/Embroidery+crop.jpg The Writer's Journey - Part 1 : The pairing of phantoms and foot prints - Make it stand out This piece of Chinese silk embroidery was the first of the treasures I ever saw from my grandfather’s trove. We were still living in Belfast so I was under eleven and found it scrunched up in a drawer. When I asked Mum what it was, tears came to her eyes. It had once been brilliantly coloured and hung on a screen placed in front of the fireplace during summer months when she was first married. A housemaid had washed it and all the colour disappeared. Mum said she was heartbroken but not angry - it was an honest error. But she could not bear to look it it again yet neither could she throw it away. She said I could keep it if I wanted and when I grew up I had it framed and delighted in its delicacy. It is a traditional piece made before marriage. Once I revived it, Mum came round and even found someone to translate the characters, but I don’t have that information any more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/b2fb3d31-8661-484f-a1f7-fc6760146b04/parasol+crop.jpg The Writer's Journey - Part 1 : The pairing of phantoms and foot prints - Make it stand out My girls wonder why I keep this tattered parasol, but it too was one of the treasures and Mum gave it to me when my brother and I unpacked the tea chests which must have been early 1960s. It hangs from the ceiling in a dark nook in our house and I find strange comfort as we show our age together! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/75e9a907-1bca-44e3-8510-2d35b575d2a6/Capture2.PNG The Writer's Journey - Part 1 : The pairing of phantoms and foot prints - Make it stand out Brassware, porcelain and ivory shipped back from Jimmy’s 1907 world tour and far from home in Sydney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/5eccdd7e-24c8-47a8-b576-04a5437ee99a/Capture.PNG The Writer's Journey - Part 1 : The pairing of phantoms and foot prints - Make it stand out My great-grandfather, John Steven, and his son Jimmy, my grandfather. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/wishing-you-all-a-twist-of-chaos-for-2022 monthly 0.5 2022-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/016449b7-24b9-47d4-8e6c-649779df537d/In+harness.PNG The Writer's Journey - Wishing you all a twist of chaos for 2022! - Make it stand out Mike and I a few days before we got married practising being in harness. Barnstaple, Devon June 1972 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/09be526b-2d7f-4c39-93de-f4b6dcb86907/unnamed1.png The Writer's Journey - Wishing you all a twist of chaos for 2022! - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/meditative-at-morpeth-p583m monthly 0.5 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1605306612273-O5FH1M1IOBTV4JQ9F1CX/20201018_094521.jpg The Writer's Journey - Meditative at Morpeth Wildflowers on Morpeth Meadows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1605307084640-Y5OZR9SKX4BARNO18TMB/Mrs+Mops1.jpg The Writer's Journey - Meditative at Morpeth Mrs Mops and Me! Outside our house in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. Must have been on the way to a gymkhana. 1962. She was a sweet-hearted horse and we had many adventures together and I think she knew my limitations! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1605306684897-SB0HQQ9DX4OSGD5FRBNO/20201018_093452.jpg The Writer's Journey - Meditative at Morpeth Morpeth Meadows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1605307226931-P4EASG05YQLD8MPMTD7B/flooded.PNG The Writer's Journey - Meditative at Morpeth This is a contemporary picture of the water meadows where we galloped. There were no kayakers then to chart the course of the river itself which was often unrecognisable from the surrounding flood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1605307946228-ATVVA25A2ZKZ1H6C4DFO/20201018_094456.jpg The Writer's Journey - Meditative at Morpeth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1605308235463-0CO76OBA5XFFEDNGXDVM/Capture.PNG The Writer's Journey - Meditative at Morpeth Wildflowers on the watermeadows near Eynsham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1605306828527-00DGHWNGOPHR6AACOSXL/Swinford+Water+Meadows.PNG The Writer's Journey - Meditative at Morpeth Water Meadows near Eynsham, Oxfordshire, UK https://gillshaddick.net/journey/thughts-on-hong-kongs-ice-house-street monthly 0.5 2021-08-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1576579600913-RO8AU2JBBRMCICUSUIKD/The+House+of+Exile.jpg The Writer's Journey - Thoughts from Hong Kong's Ice House Street https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1576490987195-NZYR03DDOS6H0NVGA93Q/20190830_160522.jpg The Writer's Journey - Thoughts from Hong Kong's Ice House Street Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong - Looking at the Bank of China Building from Battery Path, October 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1576490621017-RLCWDKH2R965G43ARX10/Bank+of+China+Photo.JPG The Writer's Journey - Thoughts from Hong Kong's Ice House Street https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1576490548667-BT3XZBQRU29KGXWDGNLT/Ice+House+Street.JPG The Writer's Journey - Thoughts from Hong Kong's Ice House Street https://gillshaddick.net/journey/memories-of-the-sea-palace monthly 0.5 2019-11-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1574397540157-OHZ9E0PFR2GGY3OSB2WZ/Love+is+a+many+splendored+thing.JPG The Writer's Journey - Memories of The Sea Palace Aberdeen Harbour scene from Love is a Many-Splendored Thing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1574397121518-1W68ZH6JQL96CI8YPOV3/Gill+at+Sea+Palace+Aberdeen+October+1968.jpg The Writer's Journey - Memories of The Sea Palace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1574397131163-OED57L2LODAD5ARPCMPY/POD+and+Gill+Sea+Palace+Aberdeen.jpg The Writer's Journey - Memories of The Sea Palace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1574397138594-N0XZ12Q36N2FXHT46QRY/David+Dunlop+Sea+Palace+Aberdeen.jpg The Writer's Journey - Memories of The Sea Palace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1574393867855-Q8YA6H0Z3WFHP6G5PD6P/Sea+Palace+pc.jpg The Writer's Journey - Memories of The Sea Palace The Sea Palace lights up Aberdeen Harbour in the 1960s. Hong Kong. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/renewing-membership-in-hong-kong monthly 0.5 2019-09-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1567608711484-VB6VRHSPENSP67L5QQFW/20190831_164520%5B1%5D.jpg The Writer's Journey - Renewing membership in Hong Kong Peaceful, quiet and umbrellas will perhaps never be the same again… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1567608079196-7ELNNFAOU9NIARLD2K9Z/20190831_091833%5B1%5D.jpg The Writer's Journey - Renewing membership in Hong Kong The Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong where I had one of my meetings. It has moved since I lived in Hong Kong but I can’t recall the old one. This location is delightful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1567608507204-LEGCL95NKZ3EHON8BXFR/20190830_160522%5B1%5D.jpg The Writer's Journey - Renewing membership in Hong Kong A walk down Battery Path retraces my route to work fifty years ago and looks over the road to where my office once was! Very different now. The Hong Kong shoreline used to be here! https://gillshaddick.net/journey/david-and-apollo monthly 0.5 2019-08-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1564659228563-7FVWCUF0YXJTJM3IDH3E/newspaper-433589_1280.jpg The Writer's Journey - David and Apollo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1564658131691-NXZWCMZIV7PA6JAGBASR/Moon1.JPG The Writer's Journey - David and Apollo The final Omega ad… But not David’s Moon - this one belongs to Apollo… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1564658724042-6ZR60ZIBG70Y5HSSDHH2/David3.gif The Writer's Journey - David and Apollo My friend David was sometimes a force to be reckoned with… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1564658351386-1I6UWF2B6QJ3OUJ891AE/Launch2.JPG The Writer's Journey - David and Apollo Apollo 11 Launch - broadcast live on 16 July, 1969 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1564658235059-OYT2D40PO0LMPBPBLRDY/moon2.JPG The Writer's Journey - David and Apollo https://gillshaddick.net/journey/hong-kong-spinning-back-the-decades monthly 0.5 2019-07-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1562149001826-64WJEHXFK6WPN7E2FOBI/LISAMST.JPG The Writer's Journey - Hong Kong - Spinning Back the Decades According to Wikipedia, the two stars loathed each other on set. Holden claimed that Jennifer Jones ate garlic before every love scene! The film made a lot of money for Han Suyin who wrote the original memoir. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1562148129636-9UKSQYH004JEN9F5O06S/personal0185.jpg The Writer's Journey - Hong Kong - Spinning Back the Decades Chinese Fishing Junk in Hong Kong Harbour. Copyright Greta Solly 1969 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1562150580439-OV5JR9SWA0JQG0YJ5WMH/personal0193.jpg The Writer's Journey - Hong Kong - Spinning Back the Decades A final beautiful shot from Greta’s album. Copyright Greta Solly 1969 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1562147635526-SBSWSZ9TEVLM5T82Q3SO/Sampan+with+Sailing+Dinghies.jpg The Writer's Journey - Hong Kong - Spinning Back the Decades I particularly love the way Greta has captured the shimmer of sunlight turning the fishing baskets to gold mesh. The Enterprise sailing dinghies in the background indicate how we did not have to go out looking for such magnificent shots., they were everyday life. Copyright Greta Solly 1969 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1562149592502-J0PBT0RC1D51PR70GLI0/TWOSW.JPG The Writer's Journey - Hong Kong - Spinning Back the Decades The book title spawned innumerable Suzie Wong bars and it’s one of those titles that never dies! https://gillshaddick.net/journey/an-author-in-waiting monthly 0.5 2019-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1557105050617-IG18Z764ILJ6N5GKYS2D/Resized_20190304_134042_3902.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Proof Reading with Christmas Faeries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1557102008006-E8HUYPQI5VO9AERQOHZD/IMG-20181208-WA0013.jpg The Writer's Journey - Proof Reading with Christmas Faeries EVEN THE Christmas fairy JOINED THE SHOW! https://gillshaddick.net/journey/up-to-date-with-addiction-7ptrk monthly 0.5 2019-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1494377473201-FAC453OUL2EUVZ48IDVG/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - Up-to-date with Addiction https://gillshaddick.net/journey/fastnet-farewell monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1547333434507-URF7POWE6O9JH97FIX9E/CIMG5395.jpg The Writer's Journey - Fastnet Farewell Dun-an-Oir https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1547334382672-KMF2VH13LAVO1DLI3XO1/Castle.png The Writer's Journey - Fastnet Farewell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1547336618422-U2VXCQ08KQLFV6I9LQD3/CIMG5397.JPG The Writer's Journey - Fastnet Farewell Turning Point, Cape Clear Island Ferry about to leave for Baltimore https://gillshaddick.net/journey/solotime-on-clear-island monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1547172627417-NV77I2JVURO280CGO1UQ/CIMG5404.JPG The Writer's Journey - Solo time on Cape Clear Island Grand Irish Day! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1547172772649-LW8PXXRMYBE8T55FAFDV/CIMG5409.JPG The Writer's Journey - Solo time on Cape Clear Island Ferry waiting for me at Baltimore Harbour Wharf https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1547175749383-9UNL5OXAHNQ2T6HXE1RR/Algerian+pub.PNG The Writer's Journey - Solo time on Cape Clear Island Sign on the pub wall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1547173856524-BITV8BFXT3PATEUBGAQ2/Fastnet.PNG The Writer's Journey - Solo time on Cape Clear Island Fastnet Rock - the current Lighthouse became operational in 1904. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1547174882843-DSV2Y3WVYJ7PL1QGRYUG/Irish+Endpiece.png The Writer's Journey - Solo time on Cape Clear Island https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1547174222733-CL6JGM8KH5WZ6GLEBRZ7/CIMG5381.JPG The Writer's Journey - Solo time on Cape Clear Island One of a series of towers built round the Irish Coast https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1547174095756-6MWBCNO9PU9581V2798T/CIMG5396.JPG The Writer's Journey - Solo time on Cape Clear Island Ferry from Baltimore in Clear Isle harbour https://gillshaddick.net/journey/a-full-blown-bumpy-train-track-in-burma monthly 0.5 2017-11-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1509791209155-LFYODXQHUK6K6WHRGYHS/DSC_3105.JPG The Writer's Journey - A Full Blown Bumpy Train Track in Burma This was our upper class carriage. Chewing-gum-green is a local favourite. It was the colour of the curtains in the trains and of the squashy synthetic matting in pagodas.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1509778294957-XHH2URDS39D9H25GA2VF/DSC_3134.JPG The Writer's Journey - A Full Blown Bumpy Train Track in Burma Happy Dale - she wrestled the windows to the floor and got the fresh air... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1509792635382-2MDK9OBHGA581D2ZA2MH/IMG_5596.JPG The Writer's Journey - A Full Blown Bumpy Train Track in Burma Ben and Alice said they got no sleep................. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1509792776864-LJ0J8R0JHNHENLBF0MQ4/20170705_185119.jpg The Writer's Journey - A Full Blown Bumpy Train Track in Burma Ben juggling hot corn cobs and a plastic bag with butter which was getting beyond its use-by-date. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/wet-lips-and-wet-feet-in-rangoons-monsoon monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1507597330906-N078X2XBOQK7BIGYMZNB/4.png The Writer's Journey - Wet Lips and Wet Feet in Rangoon's Monsoon Wet and shiny ... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1507599750323-Z76QSW3URGFSUXL1UZ44/Blog+Photo%287%29.png The Writer's Journey - Wet Lips and Wet Feet in Rangoon's Monsoon My travel companions, Alice, Dale and Ben https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1507596825508-EGWK3VPE9RW96KCQ6WQV/2.png The Writer's Journey - Wet Lips and Wet Feet in Rangoon's Monsoon Alice with the cocktail menu in Sarkies Bar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1507598663504-AG1NHWS4GSWGEMNPSL82/IMG_5670.JPG The Writer's Journey - Wet Lips and Wet Feet in Rangoon's Monsoon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1507599318286-WSTQEY3L58WRW8GMS4HO/IMG_5686.JPG The Writer's Journey - Wet Lips and Wet Feet in Rangoon's Monsoon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1507601185595-J95FTUN0915RYF4FMU7O/IMG_5668.JPG The Writer's Journey - Wet Lips and Wet Feet in Rangoon's Monsoon Alice trying to shake the rain out of her ear in the shelter of the Strand's portico. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1507600888576-10ZXG1NNDH07ZKLIK0BK/IMG_4841.JPG The Writer's Journey - Wet Lips and Wet Feet in Rangoon's Monsoon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1507597141581-0O91V9WE129T7KO77HPT/3.png The Writer's Journey - Wet Lips and Wet Feet in Rangoon's Monsoon Clockwise from top left: Backs to Buddha - and another convert to social media. A more traditional interaction between a monk and a young girl and I stand by while Alice reads all about it before the paper map finally falls to pieces. All cycles! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1507601046432-LATBGIHDL7RE7NPZAI5G/Crop+of+Jimmy.jpg The Writer's Journey - Wet Lips and Wet Feet in Rangoon's Monsoon My maternal Grandfather, Jimmy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1507600319680-8ZRDSIJEKZ1PBRLJEWYP/DSC_2915.JPG The Writer's Journey - Wet Lips and Wet Feet in Rangoon's Monsoon Dale and Alice in the Strand lobby. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1507597855974-8W8UFEWJXE9DQRYZNGGV/IMG_5682.JPG The Writer's Journey - Wet Lips and Wet Feet in Rangoon's Monsoon Fabulous flower stalls in Rangoon shine however much mist and monsoon rain tumble down! https://gillshaddick.net/journey/familiar-roadbumps-for-hong-kongs-new-faces monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1500982508865-I600QTRY1MZH7RN0YW37/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Threads of Hong Kong's past renewed Original trams, KFC and a young girl on the streets of Causeway Bay, Hong Kong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1500987587067-587Z3HIENOEP4NWRNUM8/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Threads of Hong Kong's past renewed Neon Light - Courtesy of the artist Wattana Wattanapun. www.wattana-art.com. On display in the Wattana Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand. I found this portrait of a girl in neon quite haunting. It reminded me of a side of Hong Kong that I am glad is past, but it seems perhaps although the neon lights of the girlie-bars in Hong Kong have gone, the exploitation of young women continues relentlessly on. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/hong-kong-revisited monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1500435048882-OX8DHJX33VFP6HX1O1IB/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Hong Kong Revisited Lunch on the Peak https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1499787713054-W5ROHNAO8GT1M8V7O7ZL/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Hong Kong Revisited https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1499786256323-C92FVOVRB46911RAL8C6/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Hong Kong Revisited Dale and I watched these guys for ages... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1500183152256-FNV7NLNTRTSXOWQD37B6/upload.jpg The Writer's Journey - Hong Kong Revisited Hard to get my bearings in Hong Kong! The Law Courts and iconic Bank of China building look like toy-town nestled in the middle of all the skyscrapers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1499786904315-44OKBMX2RIBTADQAE8RW/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Hong Kong Revisited https://gillshaddick.net/journey/baby-the-new-millenniums-most-popular-name monthly 0.5 2022-11-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/340fdedb-e9b1-4ea1-bed0-24b0fe5262ca/AAAA+Delete.JPG The Writer's Journey - Baby – the new millennials most popular name - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/nepalese-bean-time monthly 0.5 2016-12-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1481424402885-YV806YTS5RKRB9B8Z3IC/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - WWOOFing to Nepalese Bean Time OK, so it's not that flattering, but I think I was channeling some kind of warrior spirit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1481431321961-PX6RHVZ4HB01ZKLCFRBG/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - WWOOFing to Nepalese Bean Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1481429481339-FL6Y5M19KI2RNMJVCY3D/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - WWOOFing to Nepalese Bean Time Dale and I in Nepal   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1481432675878-974YSJQ0SGQON50M6WAI/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - WWOOFing to Nepalese Bean Time Every turn in Nepal has the promise of delight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1481432410814-5OGXODQEXC4Q1LAMN20E/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - WWOOFing to Nepalese Bean Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1481428039782-5W19CNJ4LKKGT11ZW1BR/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - WWOOFing to Nepalese Bean Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1481424554629-29GA2FY8G56XCNOBNZ7O/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - WWOOFing to Nepalese Bean Time Grandma with her grandson - I did say she was tiny - but hey, what a dynamo! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1481436538243-AGESFQ8JQL200MIKSYDW/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - WWOOFing to Nepalese Bean Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1481431740731-5ZHNKG959E6QMZB6DSGU/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - WWOOFing to Nepalese Bean Time Dale was definitely an immediate hit with the family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1481430044253-WF82L8R6TVK272JUUN6F/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - WWOOFing to Nepalese Bean Time https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1481430743044-MLETVPBXUJTBGBFOBGF3/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - WWOOFing to Nepalese Bean Time Who me? You are seriously suggesting you want me to plant another ten thousand beans... https://gillshaddick.net/journey/a-hundred-years-on-from-hong-kongs-most-calamitous-typhoon-ever monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1474158265330-FX8IURUIXGJMUXAHUZIL/typhoon+1906+2.PNG The Writer's Journey - A hundred years on from Hong Kong’s most calamitous typhoon ever https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1474158573834-7FSU6TBSLAZ48PHIT1NB/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - A hundred years on from Hong Kong’s most calamitous typhoon ever https://gillshaddick.net/journey/a-merry-laugh-in-a-tangier-hideaway monthly 0.5 2016-08-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1470790394570-NX35CKXYESTNTIKG422M/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - A Merry Laugh in a Tangier Hideaway https://gillshaddick.net/journey/as-time-goes-by monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1469421861900-H0HNGNAFWEKR1W4M4VAK/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - As Time Goes By My picture of the table where I unashamedly took a delicious white wine mid-morning... all to myself alone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1469420966577-9XEJY062A8K37BKLQ6PK/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - As Time Goes By https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1469421018650-1TXE3YBK7EXJQ6SD0SDA/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - As Time Goes By My picture of the Piano Bar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1469420931239-DBDEA9QDPINGFZGTCDMA/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - As Time Goes By https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1469421064866-K0654YWWVAQ1JPJPNZRW/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - As Time Goes By Hotel's picture of Caid's Piano Bar https://gillshaddick.net/journey/a-century-ago-tangier-attracted-artists-from-all-over-the-world monthly 0.5 2020-07-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1468207253801-GDP4KONTCZL4UPNW4NVV/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - A Century Ago Tangier Attracted Artists from All Over the World SELFIES: Mrs George Mason Nicholas (Hilda Rix Nicholas) 1917 and James McBey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1468207380230-BR6H65S7FOS7JED8ILR5/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - A Century Ago Tangier Attracted Artists from All Over the World Camouflage by Hilda Rix Nicholas 1914 and Arab Man with a Child by James McBey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1468207119944-85SB8ZFBP73AH531DLY9/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - A Century Ago Tangier Attracted Artists from All Over the World Moroccan loggia, 1912 by Hilda Rix Nicholas and Quarazazte Morocco by James McBey https://gillshaddick.net/journey/a-pause-for-rememberance-in-tangier monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1467598241476-NMETEAVRJPVWPEL1V33R/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - A Pause for Remembrance in Tangier St Andrew's Church, Tangier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1467597864573-GLJU9WAW07M2CBX1JVS8/CIMG3696.JPG The Writer's Journey - A Pause for Remembrance in Tangier Lts W M Allison & J H Buxman both South African Air Force, Sgts A J Boyles, H J Hutchinson & F E Turner all RAFVR. They were lost when the 22 Sqn SAAF Ventura serial number 6455 (ex RAF FP683) crashed during a routine patrol on 31 January 1945. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/finding-cafe-hafa-in-tangier monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1466983567388-DLLTHBPICNKX7ZWL9WGZ/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Finding Cafe Hafa in Tangier Entrance to House of Joy - a Cheshire Home in Tangier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1466982597108-ONKYBPBMSR0NGQR8O72T/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Finding Cafe Hafa in Tangier Cafe Hafa, founded in 1921, a Tangier icon that has avoided the dreaded developer! https://gillshaddick.net/journey/all-over-tangier-in-a-rash monthly 0.5 2016-06-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1466382501408-6LA4WNUE0FH2R7JSKNH3/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - All Over Tangier in a Rash A rash of signs in Tangier!   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1466382312774-ZIFAQF7J7LCZQPGWBIR9/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - All Over Tangier in a Rash Watching the world go by in Tangier   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1466381916818-DKEMKMJMQ5VNTMRTHYA0/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - All Over Tangier in a Rash My early morning cafe outside the gate to the Medina in Tangier https://gillshaddick.net/journey/no-early-start-from-a-moroccan-gite monthly 0.5 2016-06-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1465772877835-ORW276FXYDTDE5MJT78F/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - No Early Start From a Moroccan Gite Just outside my gite... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1465773218064-6WYVOOY8CY6TVLW28351/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - No Early Start From a Moroccan Gite Moroccan doors serve their purpose! Aren't they gorgeous - I collected them on my journey and have a whole folder of Moroccan doors. Just don't try getting in or OUT! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1465773114453-GDM4CY47RK7QPLY38POE/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - No Early Start From a Moroccan Gite This was a house near my gite - I just loved the veranda - but not for too wild a party. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/solo-in-the-high-atlas monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1465189845131-8DW3VSE22KZQ7XDVH7DU/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Keeping Solo in the High Atlas Ait Bougomez Valley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1465189933220-K4MKNBBK9E375HH1NNV2/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Keeping Solo in the High Atlas Taupe landscape that rolls on for ever and ever... https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1465190002968-VUINQFXBZD2PZDI1CKQI/Blog+Photo%2824%29.jpg The Writer's Journey - Keeping Solo in the High Atlas Weaving centre and a hollyhock outside my bedroom window at the gite. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1465190035201-ZHX7UX04P0HG59A4F9PW/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Keeping Solo in the High Atlas The kasbah at Zaouiat Ahansalwhere the local leader lived and where the village would gather when under attack. It is being restored with Government funds and is quite magnificent! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1465189806446-GFETEDFY4RML31WWJV7H/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Keeping Solo in the High Atlas Tabant and the local petrol station... https://gillshaddick.net/journey/goingitaloneinmorocco monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1464090398421-8QZYEH6AGAUCY4ZAO9UY/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Going It Alone in Morocco It was hard to tear myself away from Fez! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1464090025925-5UE6ZHNUSFQQWU0DAJ6Z/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Going It Alone in Morocco This was part of the road I walked to get away from the gite! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1464090149074-4967SVLJ836S503LB62A/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Going It Alone in Morocco https://gillshaddick.net/journey/m4sbegc692k0sfv2qk0b5j5lhbrwyk monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1463979381394-E6EVXX20F6EXMFUC8327/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Setting Off Travelling Solo in Morocco Near my Dar in Fez, Morocco after Alice left and I was travelling alone https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1463979471125-H1Q5XVJHXHRNMJSUFS75/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Setting Off Travelling Solo in Morocco No trouble filling a container - a new business opportunity awaited me and new opportunities galore https://gillshaddick.net/journey/an-accidental-journey-with-alice monthly 0.5 2016-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1463376016160-6Y3D7Y0EPEWVCXXW2UXU/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - An Accidental Journey with Alice Marvellous Moroco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1463375440124-NWBB61LQECXVR1QMGRSB/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - An Accidental Journey with Alice Market produce and no gladwrap! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1463374469485-ZC4I4NH68KCYPFJ1PFJL/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - An Accidental Journey with Alice Alice - inside without the sungassses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1463373998627-Z43N9XIANGO36S4IJ4FP/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - An Accidental Journey with Alice On heaven's balcony... with a good book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1463375735275-2HKJ5EH4XS55RC3CGRC6/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - An Accidental Journey with Alice Some tiling from Fez https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1463376717170-BJQU4O9EJKN8IUC1R673/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - An Accidental Journey with Alice We did a lot of fun things in London besides watch Downton Abbey! https://gillshaddick.net/journey/stirring-up-a-blue-day-with-red-paint monthly 0.5 2016-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1462768040774-VY193L2Q3T9LH013FYK1/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Stirring up a blue day with red paint Red is gorgeous and dangerous, passionate and painful - what a duet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1462768526917-N3IEP9D66L2L9XR56C49/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Stirring up a blue day with red paint The paint and red things on my desk - maybe red is a closer friend than I think! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1462769359192-1R1VN8UWYTDNZ58DRDVV/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Stirring up a blue day with red paint Just one foot in front of another and we can climb most mountains. Only trouble is pictures like these whisper "An adventure..." https://gillshaddick.net/journey/ugr8ycrxy3a5fu1pmuyyy8hhwb08kk monthly 0.5 2016-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1462244865962-CUX24T1FQF8CQAUQQQNY/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - A long leaky week that ended in champagne and hugs See, it's a nice little white panel van, not creepy at all   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1462244228925-S0YFL7LQEPBKHTMPEF50/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - A long leaky week that ended in champagne and hugs Bit of a rattlebag of a week! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1462245692169-1FG90O1RBY9D8ZTEFIFK/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - A long leaky week that ended in champagne and hugs https://gillshaddick.net/journey/good-news-spurred-me-on-to-write-about-africa-and-im-lost-for-words monthly 0.5 2016-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1461546206894-0S3G3MBF3DU88Z90H2T0/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Good news spurred me on to write about Africa and I'm lost for words. I'm digging up Africa photos - there is Mike - the tall handsome one - my soulmate. Some photos don't need many words or any translation. We were lost and all those damn cotton fields looked exactly alike. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1461547966902-X5MDTY6LKGIC0WMSPPBL/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Good news spurred me on to write about Africa and I'm lost for words. When I read poetry, I feel the words lift of the page and spin, suddenly more flexible and closer. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/vodka-kasha-and-the-russian-chapter monthly 0.5 2016-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1451965624478-G57D3RCHLOU1HUZHZHEA/Squarespace++Blog+12+Vodka%2C+Kashka.jpg The Writer's Journey - Vodka, Kasha and the Russian Chapter Two Babushka Dolls given to me by two Russian doctors almost fifty years apart, one is a peasant, the other a bit of a hussy! https://gillshaddick.net/journey/ma-wan-then-and-now-a-hong-kong-memory monthly 0.5 2019-01-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1460341929711-5Y56ZK0SGFZRRD6RDGN7/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Ma Wan Then and Now - a Hong Kong memory Noah's Ark Theme Park, Ma Wan from the air, the Tsing Ma Bridge by night and by day from the island. Photo credits include Ming Hong and HK Arun https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1460341775564-3CGX571HVT4FUVT7X71U/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Ma Wan Then and Now - a Hong Kong memory The pier where I landed at Ma Wan is deserted today and junks like the one I photographed live on only in replica for the tourists. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1460342855714-2IHDI3LF1H014ODA0XY5/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - Ma Wan Then and Now - a Hong Kong memory https://gillshaddick.net/journey/lawrence-hemingway-and-their-priceless-trash monthly 0.5 2016-04-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1459656522875-VXJG65FBBML10EF8I9H6/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Lawrence, Hemingway - each pillaged at Christmas Samples of their writing, just so you can check - clockwise from bottom left, T E Lawrence, Lawrence in Arabia and Hemingway as a young man https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1459658570047-5NQLCQG5E638SE8E36YD/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Lawrence, Hemingway - each pillaged at Christmas https://gillshaddick.net/journey/a-hong-kong-character-looked-up-from-the-grave monthly 0.5 2016-03-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1459138680200-RLJGFOP2PIV68MCTDFBF/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - A Hong Kong character; Horace Kadoorie, looked-up in the Jewish Cemetery Letters, Shanghai, sign at the Jewish Ghetto in Shanghai, the Jewish Cemetery in Hong Kong where the Kadoorie brothers reside and the best hotel east of Suez. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/faberge monthly 0.5 2016-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1458380980593-OEF4V3IEP68BS8H6GBYL/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - Fabergé’s Very Unusual Egg The Trans-Siberian Egg Photo Credit: Kremlin Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1458381139502-M02SLYPCX7PZ0TXQ1Z43/Paris+trans+sib+poster.PNG The Writer's Journey - Fabergé’s Very Unusual Egg Poster from the Paris Exposition Universelle promoting the Trans-Siberian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1458381258152-15DNGRO5XJW0X4QFVIZO/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - Fabergé’s Very Unusual Egg The miniature locomotive and its golden carriages https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1458381389182-9PZHPAL04ORQKG18ZPYM/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - Fabergé’s Very Unusual Egg The Fabergé Trans-Siberian Egg Easter 1900 https://gillshaddick.net/journey/obxujh9z9agrds1ky6m6amg2z4r6h5 monthly 0.5 2016-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1457938712447-OLVU404TURP454Q646C8/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - A Detour to the Amazing Paris Expo of 1900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1457938085767-MGG4KWH2YX5N2B41VR3J/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - A Detour to the Amazing Paris Expo of 1900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1457938624902-RNFDLT67BNNTPQ9BIT62/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - A Detour to the Amazing Paris Expo of 1900 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1457938016420-X1W7X19UL6QTOD6ROZ9C/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - A Detour to the Amazing Paris Expo of 1900 https://gillshaddick.net/journey/go-get-the-gone-days monthly 0.5 2016-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1451962428449-7F7SDG86L6IXFWY773U8/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Go get the gone days https://gillshaddick.net/journey/sophias-easter-treat monthly 0.5 2016-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1456549994048-CRA0Q2LW5O0DDB7L1S2W/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Sophia's Easter Treat Ilya Repin's 19th C portrait of Princess Sophia in Novodevichy Convent- Look out that window! She lived from 1657 to 1704 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1456552687730-B2W45V145R5YTQUAJ29X/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Sophia's Easter Treat Novodevichy Convent on the banks of the Moskva Ruver https://gillshaddick.net/journey/freakish-luck-and-preposterous-happiness monthly 0.5 2016-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1456095673726-Q5GE93T2F49ZO3J5UU26/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - Days of Freakish Luck and Preposterous Happiness Edmund Dulac - Gerda and the Reindeer - I think she was having a day with a white mark. I always have loved the surprise on the Reindeer's face - maybe it's him that's having the day! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1456029678770-RXEANJI1T6GN5QHIBC6J/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Days of Freakish Luck and Preposterous Happiness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1456095821944-LVHKX8HFXLRB272T24WS/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - Days of Freakish Luck and Preposterous Happiness Arthur Rackham - Girl beside a stream ..... the heart keeps looking for itself https://gillshaddick.net/journey/dont-you-worry-about-dangerous-spiders monthly 0.5 2016-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1455404998116-X157Q2VHLVJML2GA0VT7/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Dropping off dangerous spiders! I didn't take this photo... It was taken in my house, in my garden ... relax! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1455404896616-64N3CW16INHZ5QRDGY4O/Blog+Photo.jpg The Writer's Journey - Dropping off dangerous spiders! I didn't buy it to terrify guests, I bought it to amuse my small children https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1455405724734-41MTLDJYH2G20RW1GI3C/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Dropping off dangerous spiders! https://gillshaddick.net/journey/to-be-expected-in-the-russian-chapter monthly 0.5 2016-02-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1454839849773-GATIVRN4FBJBTEPCJ23I/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - I threw the Russian chapter to the wolves Fun in Florence with Fiats and the Russian chapter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1451950134772-W2QW76IO4JGD8WX0SM3S/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - I threw the Russian chapter to the wolves https://gillshaddick.net/journey/travelling-in-time monthly 0.5 2016-02-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1454301615268-XW2VSUDA3R5TJLCWRHJ2/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Travelling in Time Photos taken at walled villages in the New Territories, 1970 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1454301463884-WB7XFW1WU4NA30QUQXWQ/The+real+voyage+of+discovery+consists+not+in+seeking+new+landscapesk%2C+but+in+having+new+eyes.%281%29.jpg The Writer's Journey - Travelling in Time https://gillshaddick.net/journey/chinesenewyear monthly 0.5 2016-01-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1453685885398-3UOO1KVK291XJ84WYU79/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Gong Hey Fat Choy - the year of the Monkey is almost here! My daughter Emily's interpretation of the Year of the Fire Monkey. Gong Hey Fat Choy! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1453687053137-B7RU1E43G1Q40UTWBWVW/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Gong Hey Fat Choy - the year of the Monkey is almost here! Chinese New Year 1969 Aberdeen and Victoria Park Market https://gillshaddick.net/journey/taking-outward-steps-in-the-direction-of-a-dream monthly 0.5 2016-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1451963760204-8SQYK7BZ6DDMH3R65VF9/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Taking Outward Steps in the Direction of a Dream. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/crazymakers monthly 0.5 2016-03-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1451962820610-A2XTYU7GHOOQQBWL2JSO/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Crazymakers’ Central Emily's collage illustrates how I constantly swept up after crazymakers. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/comfort-women monthly 0.5 2016-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1451983281825-USD53N5K9I6FWNRJ2N93/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Comfort Women https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452207552277-L848Y9DJ7EGGZW8PTK5M/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - Comfort Women https://gillshaddick.net/journey/rambling-rose monthly 0.5 2016-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1451960900879-DX1T5D44BJ5UFUTDGZJH/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Late Bloomers dare to go it alone https://gillshaddick.net/journey/dreamtimes-glossary monthly 0.5 2016-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452202734340-RSCJ2UPWS80A82SZTJTG/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Dreamtime’s Glossary My daughter, Emily, kindly made this collage of my glossaric insomnia https://gillshaddick.net/journey/the-ease-of-late-career-change monthly 0.5 2016-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1451960242738-LUZ3DNVMS2F56UMPBEI8/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - The Ease Of Late Career Change My daughter, Emily, kindly made a collage for me when she read my blog. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/there-is-seldom-a-dream-run monthly 0.5 2016-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1451960140972-WJ9ZGUNUOW5VABMKDXN8/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - There Is Seldom A Dream Run Mike and I at home with our four daughters, Emily Dale, Kim and Alice. https://gillshaddick.net/journey/dousing-a-dream-leaves-a-burning-spark monthly 0.5 2016-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1451958553229-K7WNFXREMY4FL9IE8FU7/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Dousing A Dream Leaves A Burning Spark The Universe stepped in and delivered us to an island anyway - one I'd never dreamed of going to - Waiheke Island, New Zealand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1451959539595-25R2Z6EWQX6FLFNW2YA1/image-asset.jpeg The Writer's Journey - Dousing A Dream Leaves A Burning Spark Mike and I on the Beach in Waiheke https://gillshaddick.net/journey/its-never-too-late-for-a-volte-face-moment monthly 0.5 2016-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5600d12ae4b088bb5b7e347e/1452152334608-EI6S1L190VUNC67B588B/image-asset.png The Writer's Journey - It’s Never Too Late For A Volte-face Moment I was glad I changed course and one of the places my volte-face moment took me to was Spain. 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