One Year Later

Hi there, all

As you will no doubt be aware, I haven't posted here for over a year. I noticed the anniversary of my last post approaching, and then receding, and this seems to have spurred some reflection on what I might say next.

What have I been up to? As previously advertised, I visited Istanbul at Easter last year.
Hagia Sophia (perhaps my favourite building ever)

Then I spent five weeks touring Canada and the United States, sightseeing and visiting bloggers and other friends.

Quebec city and beyond

The Capitol, Washington DC

The Grand Canyon

During the summer, I largely kept my head down, ignoring the Olympics, but I had a couple of day trips to lesser-known bits of England.

Wells-next-the-Sea

Knebworth House

I even managed to look around my own city!

Cambridge: King's College chapel

Autumn saw some more weekend trips, several to Germany and one to (old) York.

Sangerhausen

York: city walls and the Minster

Winter was quite quiet, but last month (March), I had another couple of trips. The first took me travelling through the Balkans, visiting five of the parts of the former Yugoslavia, from Slovenia to Macedonia and Kosovo.

Skopje (Macedonia): the Stone Bridge and the castle

The second trip was a week touring Morocco by train - my first visit to Africa.

Marrakech: the Koutoubia mosque

Casablanca: the Hassan II mosque
For those interested in the pictures, I hope to make more detailed posts at some point, but please don't hold your breath.

At home, I've had other things to keep me occupied: I now have accounts on Twitter (@WanderingPomUK) and Facebook (find mark.pom.37 or my wanderingpom e-mail address), and I'm slowly learning how to use them in a way that suits me. If you're not already following me there, please feel free come along and say Hi. I also had an MSN account, but I guess that's now in limbo between MSN and Skype.

Take care

Mark