"You should have your wake before you die"
I have wonderful memories and want to share them while I am still around.
I have been to great places and met wonderful people and would like to suggest how you can do the same when we are able to travel again.
I want to record how the world gradually opens after the virus and give suggestions on where to go
I started photography with an olympus trip when I was about 14. I moved on to a great little Rollei and took lots of slides using Orwochrome a bargain slide film from Eastern Europe. Many of these slides are in this blog.
Needing a change I went back to prints about 1992 and used these until I got my first digital camera in 2007. The prints are still in Keith's attic in Oswaldtwitle and hopefully one day will be scanned to this blog.
The digital camera is amazing and there are lots of photos here many taken on a Canon camera we bought in New York on a world tour. The more recent photos are on an LG smartphone.
The personal stuff:
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| The horse rider of El Savador |
Needing a change I went back to prints about 1992 and used these until I got my first digital camera in 2007. The prints are still in Keith's attic in Oswaldtwitle and hopefully one day will be scanned to this blog.
The digital camera is amazing and there are lots of photos here many taken on a Canon camera we bought in New York on a world tour. The more recent photos are on an LG smartphone.
The personal stuff:
- 1956 Dave born at Roughlee Maternity Home in Accrington to John and Edna Dawson
- 1958 Brother Keith born
- 1960 Brother Ray born
- 1960 aged 4 started at St Johns primary school. My mum told me on the 1st day she went to collect me from the school and was told by her 4 year old son I shall be walking home on my own in future(about1/4 mile)
- 1966 England won world Cup
- 1969 Man walked on moon.
- 1969 passed 11 plus and went to Accrington Grammar School. Met many good friends. Changed from St Johns cubs to Accrington West Scouts.
- With friends and scouts started walking and camping.
- 1972 with the two Phils walked the Pennine Way 270miles from Edale to Kirk Yethom Scotland. Ten tortured toes on two damaged feet but what an adventure.
- 1974 hitch hiked to Spain with Phil. Met John and Jeff who flew there. Hitched to Chamonix to climb Mt Blanc. Bought two ice axes and crampon sets to share between four.Watched John taken by helicopter to hospital after breaking his leg on the Glacier des Boissons. After a few days put John on train home and set off to hitch home. Phil reached Paris in time to see John.
- 1974 completed the Duke of Edinburgh's award and went with Tommy and our mums to the Palace
- 1974 started at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.
- 1975 walking and hitching through the Alps with Lynne. Two magic weeks at Zermatt
- 1976 UEA Fell and Mountain trip to Ireland walking and caving
- 1977 UEA Fell and Mountain trip to the Picos de Europa and Pyrenees walking and caving
- 1978 Start to hitch hike to Everest with Lynne and Phil
- 1979 March returned from India skinny and covered in boils. After two months cycled to the Orkney Islands and back
- 1979 Sept started work with BDO in London as a trainee accountant
- 1980s holidays in Iceland, Greece, Alps, Scotland
- 1989 moved to BDO Melbourne. On the way three week minibus trip San Francisco to Alaska.
- 1990 14 week campervan trip to Cairns, Darwin, Alice springs
- 1991 West Australia bus trip Perth to Darwin, Bali and Java
- 1991 Dec transfer to Norwich BDO to work on the Bygone Village
- 1993 Start of visits to Germany Hamburg, Walsrode, Berlin, Haartz, Alps
- 1999 6 month trip Fiji, New Zealand, Australia
- 2001 move to Australia via Malaysia, Thailand, Laos.
- 2001 to 2007 many campervan trips in Australia
- 2007 12 month trip Central America, UK, China,Vietnam,Cambodia and Thailand
- 2009 South Korea, Helsinki and Tokyo
- 2012 12 months South America, New York, Europe and Southern Africa
- 2014 camping trip for 7 months around Australia
- 2017 Morocco and Eurail around Europe
- 2018 Thailand
- 2019 Greece
- 2020 New Zealand
