travel

I wish Easy jet still flew from Stansted to Newcastle, could do a job up North and be back for supper, no more, its back in the car for the long drive but there always silver linings, the A68 what a lovely driving road and Northumberland looks so good at this time of year. Any way some frames from up North, West and south.

Twizzle the super yacht I shot over a number of visits to her last year is now making her away around the world, I have been quite surprise just how many articles have been publish about her, but who couldn’t resist those fetching lines and location. All the best to her and her owners that worked so very hard to make her into the work of art that she is.

Trying to run a renovation project and get out to take pictures is proving quite difficult but so the blog is a good reason to make me do it.

Royal Enfield model Desert Storm parked under a tree in Trivandrum, lovely.

We started our new contract for our new house in India and on the 26/12 building work started, none of the Christian holidays for these guys. I have been pleasantly surprised at the speed of the workers. Today was our 1st hot sunny day, we’ve been here about a week and a bit, our dogs were very please to see us and us took of them to.I am going to try my best to shoot some video as soon as poss but at the moment most of our time is taken up with construction and design issues.

Anyway in the mean time, here’s nice tree to sit under in the afternoon sun.

“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries…”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Surya Samudra Kovalam, a luxurious private retreat among the Kovalam Beach Hotels is the living expression of Kerala’s ancient and vibrant civilization. Spread over lush green acres of landscaped tropical gardens, this Hotel in Kerala is insulated from the busy tourist seaside, this tranquil paradise sits on top of a cliff overlooking pristine beaches by the Arabian Sea in Kerala – God’s Own Country. www.suryasamudra.com

This is a world 1st rights. Ring ray main 07831 200 901 or email ray@raymain.co.uk

London A to Z by photographer called Peter Defty I just liked the idea and it appears from his website (worth a look) it continues…around the world doing  A to Z in different cites, great idea Peter well done that man.

“A civilisation is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries…” that’s the opening line on the Surya Samudra website, I was there the other day shooting a little travel thing for a UK mag. I was very taken with the place, the setting and the very helpful staff. http://www.suryasamudra.com

Wherever I have gone around the world beaches always have beach dogs, normally associated with beach restaurants, that seem to have some sort of loose deal where the dogs keep the vermin down and the restaurants feed them scraps, well that’s my take on it. Our beached here are no different and over the years we have built up quite a few relationships with a number of the dogs on the beach, we find them very friendly, my move from the shade of one sun bed to another and are always ready for a fuss. So it came as a  shock to see in the local paper that a few tourist had bitten by the dogs and now the local council wish to clear the beach of them. So I thought I would do my bit for the beach boys (that’s what we call the dogs) and do them some good PR shots, I hope you like them.

long live the beach dogs….say i for one.