Welcome to our family holiday photo album!! These photos accompany my travel memoir "Globetrotting With Disabled Don" and I hope you enjoy seeing the photos that illustrate the chapters.
CHAPTER 2
At the Italian border. Me and Geoff peek out the windows
CHAPTER 3
Me and Tim outside Garage Latil
I’m doing my ‘if it can happen it will’ pose.
CHAPTER 4
Geoff, Don and Tim at Gourdon, plus our hire car lurking there…..
CHAPTER 6
.....only 211 days to go until the year 2000
In Paris - I dragged that suitcase around Paris all day, and I should have worn more sensible footwear - my dainty court shoes caused me some discomfort after a while.
CHAPTER 8
The villa
The infinity pool and view from the villa including the runway at the airport
Tim outside the villa in his best French Verbaudet outfit - bow tie, braces and all - how fitting that it it is in lilac and matches the shutters
Enjoying the jacuzzi
CHAPTER 9
Cool dude - Tim looking very dapper in his Verbaudet outfit, cummerbund and all, leaning against the Volvo hire car outside the Anglican Church in Cannes. (I parked the car well I thought - “well done Reginald Molehusband").
On our favourite beach at La Napoule - me and Don waving at Geoff who is taking the photos - we make it out for a swim, the water is beautifully warm for him. He can walk into the sea with his arm around my shoulder, but would not be able to walk into the sea without help.
On the beach at Cannes
Savouring coffee and drinks in Capitou
Game of boules in Capitou. Me, Tim and Geoff looking on.
Playing it safe parking the Volvo - that curb is very high
CHAPTER 11
A quick snap at Chartres before travelling on to Dreux
CHAPTER 12
View across Torbay
CHAPTER 13
Crabbing in Sète
CHAPTER 14
The holiday complex is in the middle of this postcard picture surrounded by canals. It has a large blue pool in the centre.
CHAPTER 15
Don in the kiddies’ pool
CHAPTER 20
BBQ with Michael and Anna
Tim wondering where the monkeys are in St Honorat
CHAPTER 23
Sunday market in Annecy Old Town
CHAPTER 24
Medieval village of Yvoire - Don needs both of his walking sticks for this village as it has many steps
Tim is dwarfed by the water fountains at Evian-les-Bains
CHAPTER 26
The glacier
CHAPTER 29
Rachel and Tim on the boat ride
CHAPTER 31
The CBSO Chorus tour itinerary and programme, USA 1987
CHAPTER 32
Comparison of streets layout in San Francisco and Birmingham
CHAPTER 33
Concert in St Michael’s Church, Ghent.
(Left to right - Conductor - Gunter Neuhold
Contralto - Florence Quivar, Soprano - Mitsuko Shirai, Chorus Master - Simon Halsey).
I’m the tallest one, right at the very back on the left-hand side.
\n(I loved our red dresses - we had to sew them ourselves, made to a pattern).
Outside the Manneken Pis, Brussels
CARTOON OF SIMON RATTLE in Spain
\nby Jeremy Ballard (Leader of the 2nd fiddles)
\nBy kind permission of the Ballard Family
The “Swiss Family Holiday” chalet
Towel art creature
View from the lift, Deck 14
Based on “The Scream” - an art work made from tiles onboard Independence of the Seas
One of the many dusty, derelict cars in Gibraltar. A Celtic fan obviously took a shine to this one!
Chandelier in the King Lear Restaurant
Pools at night
CHAPTER 50
Sharing a Sangria on Las Ramblas
CHAPTER 52
Cobblestones in Lisbon - known as Portuguese Pavements - a beautiful tapestry of artisan skill, but not suited to wheelchairs (or kitten heels!)
Jelly Fish in estuary at Lisbon - we never did find out what species it was.
Ponte 25 de Abril Bridge
Sculptural building in Lisbon, Portugal
Our ship about to sail under that noisy Ponte 25 de Abril Bridge - it’s close!
Another of Aneceto’s towel art creations
"Interieur" by Emile Ballet - the free print given on board Independence of the Seas for attending an art auction. I didn't bid on anything though!
The magnificent Bridge of Royal Caribbean’s cruise liner Independence of the Seas
Thirty-foot waves in the Force 10 storm, December 2011
Official Photo - QM2
One of the dogs onboard QM2 . I wonder what the owner looked like?
Commodore Christopher Rynd looks in on the dogs.
Don takes a snapshot just as one of the Filipino dog warden is sweeping something up.
Don and Tim - Times Square
A street in New York - December 2011
Women’s toilets in New York Central Station
CHAPTER 64
Wedgwood Cunard Christmas Guest Gift, December 2011
CHAPTER 66
My Curaçao Cocktail
CHAPTER 68
The blue building
Bottle Keeping the door closed
CHAPTER 69
Grenada Beach Dog
Refreshing Carib Lager
CHAPTER 70
Santa in sunglasses, St Maarten
A Carib cat
CHAPTER 71
Me and Tim enjoying a swim
CHAPTER 72
One of the many derelict vehicles on the island of St Lucia
Bananas growing up (who knew? ….I didn’t!)
Laundrette onboard QM2, December 2011
I spent many an unhappy hour ironing onboard QM2!
CHAPTER 75
A passenger dancing with one of the official dancing escorts onboard QM2
A medical evacuation from QM2 - will the pilot do it?
Talent Show Certificate .....ooooh!
Don in his New Year gear
CHAPTER 78
The internet charges
CHAPTER 80
Melon carving during Kitchen Tour
CHAPTER 82
Pimm's patriotic deck party onboard Oriana 2015
Lisbon - Don modelling his 6 Euro pale blue scarf using the selfie stick
CHAPTER 84
Single Star of Bethlehem stem on our dining table - these stems lasted the whole cruise
(I tried growing them at home but failed miserably)
Concert Hall at Troldhaugen
Liners in Torbay during the Covid pandemic. They were there for many months.
CHAPTER 96
Don's key ring
CHAPTER 97
Don on the Tramper on Great Malvern
(and Mike sitting on a gold mine!)
Som Zimmer frames lined up at a hotel
Don the chef - eat your heart out Jamie Oliver!
Don on his “Hardly a Davidson” (as he calls it)
High hedges and grass growing in middle of a little used Cornish lane
Sexy underwear in Cornish fishing hamlet of Portloe
Road Closed in Portloe
......a welcome cuppa at The Lugger Hotel, Portloe
Road closed homeward bound from Cornwall
Don cycling in Switzerland
Tramper at Powderham, Devon
