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Previous | Contents | Next This was May 2000. Mobile networks, roaming arrangements and phone charges have improved a bit since then! The iPhone was still 6-1/2 years or so away. ~ Ian So here we are, leaving LA on Day One of our road trip, doing what I’ve always wanted to ... Read more
Previous | Contents | October 2001 It used to be the Austro-Hungarians we had to thank for keeping the Ottomans out of Europe but for now it’s the EU, while they consider Turkey’s application to join. For such a big shift — from Christian society to Muslim, from Europe to Asia — the ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next October 2021. We only had 2-3 days to spend with Heather’s relatives in the UK on this trip. I was a bit worried about meeting Uncle Bert, the BOAC pilot, again. He definitely hadn’t drunk me under his sister-in-law’s table when he came to New Zealand, but apparently I ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next October 2021. It’s not often that your flight plans align with a world-shaking geopolitical event, but we managed it in September 2001. Our plan — after joining the Queensberry contingent at the WPPI show in Las Vegas — was to host a round of seminars in Canada, England and ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next March 2001. This was Queensberry’s first WPPI trade show in Las Vegas. ~Ian Well, the Trade Show is over and we’re back in the LAX Departure Lounge. It feels good to relax. The show was a non-stop assault. We’d been pretty busy even before we left home, what with ... Read more
Previous | Contents | As we drove east across northern New York State the trees were in full leaf. Leaving Quebec, further north, everything had just been greening up, as the buds formed and opened. It would have been nice to go back for another look at Edmonton later in the Spring. ... Read more
Previous | Contents | NextI wrote my last 2000 despatches back in sunny Los Angeles. We’d spent the last four weeks driving through Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and New England. Having flown back from Toronto we were lying low for a few hours before catching the flight back home. ~ Ian We’ve driven ... Read more
| Contents | Next Some time in late 1999 we decided it was time to go international. Ever since Stephen had set up the Queensberry website in 1994 we’d fielded enquiries from photographers overseas, especially Americans. We’d worked out how we could do business with them, but where to start? This was ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next Before Canada, a little segue into food. It’s fair to say that sometimes we don’t so much sight-see when we travel as progress from restaurant to restaurant. This trip was no different. I’d always wanted to drive across America — and yes, I know that every generation ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next Those of you with a literary bent will not be surprised to hear that I was reading Tom Wolfe at the time. Others will notice that it’s pre-iPhone and pre-mobile internet, and that take-out coffee hadn’t arrived in New Zealand yet. ~ IanWell, gosh — we’ve been ... Read more