I haven’t travelled all that much in Europe (though I did live for a while in Germany and the Netherlands, as well as mainly in the UK) and only a little elsewhere, but working in China gave me opportunities to explore some very different places in East Asia.

Having a Kenyan friend in the Netherlands led me to visiting that fascinating country a couple of times – and not completely as a tourist.

Asian travel

Cambodia

Siem Reap and Angkor Wat

Sihanoukville (aka Kampong Som)

Phnom Penh

Cambodian Food and Drink

China

I worked for six and a half years in Qinhuangdao (Hebei) and five in Jinan (Shandong), holidaying between semesters travelling around China and returning to Europe (mostly the Netherlands and the UK) between the academic years.

Hebei Province

• Qinhuangdao 秦皇岛
  • Haigang District
  • Beidaihe District
  • Shanhaiguan District
  • Jiaoshan and Yansai Lake
• Baoding
  • Anxin and Baiyangdian
• Handan
• Shijiazhuang (see Baoding, above)
• Chengde
• Smaller places

Beijing

Tianjin

Shanghai

Zhejiang Province

• Hangzhou 杭州

Heilongjiang Province

• Harbin 哈尔滨

Shandong Province

• Jinan 济南
• Qufu 曲阜
• Tai’an and Taishan
• Weifang
• Yantai
  • Qixia
• Qingdao

Shaangxi Province

• Xi’an

Henan Province

• Luoyang

Fujian Province

• Xiamen (formerly Amoy)

Sichuan Province

• Chengdu
  Qingyanggong
  Wenshuyuan
  Wuhou Ci and Jinli
  The Panda Centre

Yunnan Province

• Kunming
• The “Stone Forest” (石林; Shílín)
• Lijiang and around
• Shangri-La
• Tiger Leaping Gorge

Guangdong Province

• Guangzhou
• Hong Kong
• Zhuhai and Macau

Chinese Festivals

Chinese New Year – also known as the Spring Festival

Chinese Food and Drink

Korea

• Seoul

The little I’ve seen of Africa

Really, just part of one country.

Kenya

• Masai Mara
• Mombasa
• Tiwi, Ukunda, Marijani
• Tsavo

European travel

Most of my travelling in Europe took place in the absence of a camera (digital or otherwise), so this section is lighter on the photography.

Germany

(there were two of them, when I first went)

The Netherlands

France

Switzerland

Spain

Portugal

Italy

Ireland

Denmark

Czech Republic

(it was part of Czechoslovakia when I first went)

Working visits to the USA

I worked for a Canadian company in the UK, which was bought by an American company, which forced through a relocation to the Netherlands, which was a good move for me, although I was on a secondment in Munich, Germany, at the time. After a few years in the Netherlands, I was promoted to a position which meant travelling every quarter for meetings in the western USA (California and Oregon).