Statistics
- Respected Member
- Member since Mar 27, 2012
- 6 trips
- 36,338 kms travelled
- 2 countries visited
- 3,360 photos
- 26 forum entries
- 141 blog entries
About @Keep Smiling
81 years old • Male • Retired travel executive
A former travel company executive (and a senior university administrator in later life). Now retired, I enjoy travel writing accompanied by photography of people, places and wildlife.
I'm an experienced, mature traveller - not a backpacker. So, I don't write about thumbing my way across the Sahara, slumming it in cockroach-infested hostels, or sharing a room with giant mosquitoes.
Oh, and I'm British - so you can expect a stiff upper lip in times of adversity and a sense of humour that's often not understood by others.
Keep Smiling!
- Hobbies:
Photography, computing, blogging, gardening and cookery - but not often at the same time.
- Favourite places:
England, India, France and Madeira - but not necessarily in that order.
Keep smiling!
Trips
Three travel bloggers go to Bhārata
10 Feb 2013 - 15 Mar 2013 • 16,908 kms
United Kingdom
India
Norfolk is flat
23 Jun 2010 - 30 Jun 2010 • 510 kms
United Kingdom
The very north of Scotland
• 2,110 kms
United Kingdom
Latest Blog Entries
- Thar and ta-ra! in A spiritual journey - India 2018
- The Cranes of Khichan in A spiritual journey - India 2018
- Two old farts, an old fort,blackbuck,rats,vultures & camels! in A spiritual journey - India 2018
Travel Blogs Keep Smiling runs
- Pintu's Firsts - A visit to a young man whose education I helped to fund and a holiday with him to Mumbai and Goa.
- Wales 2007 - A week in Carmarthenshire
- It's a long way to go for a wedding - A fabulous Rajput marriage ceremony
- All I want for Christmas... - Dental tourism in Hungary
- A little bit of France and Spain - A family holiday in the Pyrenees
- The very north of Scotland - A visit to friends and the glorious Highlands
- Our South India Adventure - Three weeks in Kerala and Tamil Nadu
- The West Country - Devon and Cornwall - June 2010
- Norfolk is flat - and interesting! - House-sitting in beautiful East Anglia
- Bookzilla - The largest photobook in the world
- A wartime secret and a Victorian kitchen - Audley End House
- A palace garden - ...visited with the Head Gardener
- Number One London - aka Apsley House - home of the Duke of Wellington
- Shrewsbury - 'Shrrooos_bree' or 'Shrows_bree' or 'Shoosbree'
- You're welcome to Wales! - Only kidding...
- East or West, Canada is Best! - A month full of adventures in Canada
- A Magnificent Rajasthani Marriage - The marriage of my Rajasthani friend in India - and the ceremonies before and after
- A postcard from Madeira - A week on our honeymoon island to celebrate 40 years of marriage
- An English Summer - How I spent some of the summer of 2012 in my home country
- Three bloggers go to Bhārata - The three bloggers Keep Smiling and the Grey Haired Nomads travel to India for five weeks.
- The Garden of England - A mid-week break in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
- Britain's health service observed - Observations during an enforced stay in hospital
- Dizzy in Buckinghamshire - Europe » United Kingdom » England » Buckinghamshire » High Wycombe - 22 March 2014
- Downton Abbey & Tutankhamun - Europe » United Kingdom » England » Berkshire » Newbury - 21st April 2014
- The world and his wife go to the seaside - Europe » United Kingdom » England » East Sussex » Brighton
- Postcards from delightful Devon - A week's journey around one of Britain's most beautiful regions
- Here I go again... - Yes, another journey around Rajasthan
- What? Rajasthan yet again?! - Four weeks disovering new things in a State I already know well
- A spiritual journey - India 2018 - Four weeks in India with my elder brother David, visiting holy sites on the River Ganges (including a boat journey), and inevitable wildlife adventures and visits to friends too.
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