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.

 

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         

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.

Our base was the village of Plockton (used in the TV series “Hamish Macbeth”) and this slide show covers our travels around the area including the village of Applecross, which was used as the setting for the old B&W 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.

This is a series of images taken over a three year 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 September 2010.    Reconstruction has now virtually been completed but maintenance of the site is ongoing and volunteers are always needed to help with this task.

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!

16.   Trier & The Moselle

This was a trip carried out at the end of April 2010 and beginning of May and shows Trier, an ancient Roman City full of Roman baths and other buildings including the famous “Porta Nigra” (The Black Gate) and the “Kaiser Thermen” (the Emperor Baths).    We also go to Bernkastel-Keus on the Moselle and see the wonderful half-timbered houses as well as the huge vinyards along the banks of the Moselle.    We also go up to Landshut Castle, once owned by the Archbishops of Luxembourg.

17.   The Isle of Mull

We stay for a week at Tobermory and take to the roads to se the sites and sounds of the island.   We visit a fantastic woodland park - Aros Park - and wander round the lake.    We also go to Dervaig and Calgary, Duart Castle (the former home of Sir Charles McLean, Chief Scout in the 1950s) and also take a day trip onto the island of Iona.

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