1.   Upper Swaledale

Covers Upper Swaledale from Ravenseat to Gunnerside.   Takes you along the footpaths and waterfalls of the upper dale and visits a couple of lead mine ruins.    Also visits Keld, Thwaite and Muker and takes you along part of the Old Corpse Way.

2.  Lower Swaledale

Looks at further lead mining above Reeth and Arkengarthdale and takes you onto Fremington Edge to Langthwaite via the hamlet of Booze!    Also take you to Richmond via Grinton, Marrick Priory and Marske and ends with a visit to Easby Abbey on a cold February day with a little snow!

3.   By Train Across Canada

Niagara Falls and a brief look at Toronto before we board “The Canadian” for the three day train journey to Jasper where we spend the next week seeing the wild life, Columbian Icefield and Parkway.   Later we take the “Rocky Mountaineer” to Vancouver via Kamloops and ends with a brief visit to Grouse Mountain and the  Cappilano Suspension Bridge.

4.   Bavarian Alps & Oberammergau
We spent two weeks in the Bavarian Alps in Southern Germany and Part 1 covers the small town of Murnau (our base) and the small village of Bad Kohlgrub and the climb up the Hornle (1390 metres).    It also covers Oberammergau famous for its Passion Play, and the small village of Etall with its famous Monastery which brews some considerable amount of beer.

5.   The Royal Castle of King Ludwig II
This is part of the same trip and opens with a visit to the Royal Castles of King Ludwig II: Neuschwanstein and Linderhof.    We then take the cable car up Germany’s highest mountain, the “Zugspitze” at 2,964 metres.   We also take a slow stroll through  the meadows at the foot of the Zugspitze near the village of Grainau and then finish with a visit to three lakes: the Kochelsee, Walchansee and the Plansee.

  

6.    Cornwall Part 1

Our base was near the village of Mevagissey and we visit the Lost Gardens of Heligan,  small coastal villages of Pentewan, Portloe and, of course, “The Eden Project”.

7.   Cornwall Part 2

This covers a visit to the North Cornish villages of  Tintagel and Boscaslte ‘one year on’ after the disastrous floods of 2004 and then back to the South Coast to visit Gorran Haven, Polkerris, Fowey and Charlestown Harbour (near St Austell).

8.   Rhine Cruise to Switzerland (Part 1)

Covers the town of Breisach where we boarded our ship and then on to Basle, Interlaken and Lucerne in the pouring rain!   A visit to a cuckoo clock factory and Lake Titisee in the Black Forest before visiting Strasbourg and Heidelberg.

9.   Rhine Cruise to Switzerland (Part 2)

Scenes from Rudesheim, Boppard, life on board ship and the Rhine Vistas are all part of this presentation.

10.   Iona and Lindisfarne

Initially looking at a short history of St Columba we then take a tour around Iona before going on to Lindisfarne (Holy Island) with some superb images of sunset on the island.    With its emotive musical soundtrack it has become a very popular show.

11.   North Yorkshire Moors
A series of walks and meanderings on the North Yorkshire Moors including “Heather in Bloom”, “Bilsdale in Autumn”, “A Walk over Baysdale”  and other items not forgetting a series if images of “Roseberry Topping”.

12.   Danube Cruise 2007
A cruise down the Danube to Bratislava visiting “Schallaburg Castle”, Melk,  Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest as well as small villages on the banks of the Danube.

13.   Scotland - Plockton & The Isle of Skye

Our base was the village of Plockton (used in the TV series “Hamish”) and this slide show covers our travels around the area including the village of Applecross, which was used as the setting for the film “Laxdale Hall”, Inverewe Gardens, Eilean Donan Castle and goes on to the Isle of Skye.    We also see seals and take a couple of moonlit photographs of the loch outside our bedroom window.

14.   The Regeneration of Hackfall

This is a series of images taken over an 18 month period for The Woodland Trust.   Hackfall, near Grewelthorpe, Ripon, used to be the “Mecca” for the rich and famous for nearly 150 years from the 1750s to 1920s.   A ‘landscape garden’ created by William Aislabie (whose father was John Aislabie who created the water garden at Fountain’s Abbey) contains Follies, Temples, Water Features (including the famous “Fountain Pond”) and Mowbray Castle until timber operations during the Second World War so badly damaged the landscape that Hackfall was largely forgotten.    It was only with the help of The Hackfall Trust under Mr James Ramsden, and the purchase of the wood by The Woodland Trust, that the wood is now being regenerated and this slide show is a series of images taken during the reconstruction work from July 2007 until April 2009.    It contains both ‘before and after’ images as well as a series of images of the Autumn Colours entitled “Rhapshody in Gold” and other sequences such as “Silhouettes and Shadows” and “Hackfall in May” with the glorious bluebells!   However, reconstruction continues and more images will be added later to show the latest improvements.

15.   Tyrolean Travels **NEW**

Travels in the Tyrol with a two centre base.    We explore Birgitz (South-West of Innsbruck) and its surrounding valleys, including the Stubaital and  Gries im Sellrain and then move on to Lake Achensee and the village of Pertisau.    We end with a visit to the famous Krimml Falls, said to the highest in Europe, falling 1,253 feet in three cascades.  Click Here to see the Krimml Falls sequence on YouTube!

Slide Shows for a wide range of Groups.     They normally last about 45 minutes.    Select the show  you would like and  then  email me at drodway35@tiscali.co.uk  to book via email and I will get get back to you as soon as possible.   Confirmation will also be shown in the Diary Dates within a couple of days or so.   Or, if you prefer telephone me on  01642 566739