Vincent van Walt's Travel Journal
Multnomah Falls
17th June 2018The highway A5 is the road that takes you from Seattle to Portland Oregon and runs more or less straight for some 180 miles. The rental company had upgraded us to an enormous 8 seater GMC; very thirsty,...
Read MoreClay Cliffs and Ice Crystals
1st June 2018Mix the right sort of clay with cobbles, site them where streams and rain will erode it in a geologically short period, sprinkle them with minerals to tint the cake and you get the Clay Cliffs in Omarama,...
Read MoreIt doesn’t need to be like that
22nd May 2018Around the world, in the hollows of badly lit store rooms there will be shelves filled to the gunwales with equipment. A certain item was purchased to satisfy the requirements of a particular project...
Read MoreFour countries in two weeks
29th April 2018Admittedly two of them are pretty small and we barely grazed French territorial waters but when you travel at an average cruising speed of 6 knots (six nautical miles per hour) and you have 400 miles to...
Read MoreSometimes I talk to trees
7th April 2018Some are fascinated by clouds, others by mountains. I happen to like trees.
Read MoreTime and tide waits for no man
25th March 2018As the clocks move forward I reflect on time.
Read MoreDaffodils in the Snow
18th March 2018We're not used to snow. One flake can disrupt life for days. Several inches and one would think that we've been transponded to Siberia. The media can't get enough of it. We've had the beast from the east...
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20th February 2018I was instructed not to make this boring. As if!
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