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Pictures taken during research for Slow Trains to Istanbul ..And Back: A 4,570-Mile Adventure on 55 Rides

Pictures taken during research for Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-mile hike around the Lake District

Pictures taken during research for Park Life: Around the World in 50 Parks

Pictures taken during research for Slow Trains Around Spain: A 3,000-mile Adventure on 52 Rides

: Train and viaduct silhouette on way to Valencia

: Street art outside Cuenca Station

: Puenta de San Pablo bridge at Cuenca

: Author on mercury mine train in Almaden

: Locos at Museo del Ferrocarril de Madrid

: Roman aqueduct, Segovia

: Renfe Avant train at Zamora Station

: Author with staff of Transcantabrico Clasico at Ferrol Station

: Renfe Five driver’s cab, between Infiesto and Oviedo

: Renfe Feve narrow gauge train at Santander Station

: Bilboa-Concordia Station

: Stained glass window at Bilbao-Abando Station

: Gift shop in Pamplona

: Trenches in which George Orwell served in the Spanish Civil War

: Aljaferia Palace, Zaragoza

: Renfe AVE train at Lleida

: Snails for dinner at Lleida

: Nun walking on mountain at Montserrat

: Funicular at Montserrat

: Funicular at Montserrat

: Madrid Metro’s Montserrat Station

: Catalonia Railway Museum

: ‘Above sea level’ sign, Blanes Station

: Sant Ferran Castle, Figueres

: Figueres Station

: Eurostar platforms at St Pancras International

: John Betjeman Statue, St Pancras International

: Author on arrival in Seville

: View from Alameda del Tajo, Ronda

: Ronda Station

: Calle Juan Morrison, Algeciras

: Train protest in Algeciras

: Cafe at Bobadilla Station

: Torremolinos Station

: View from train between Almeria and Granada

: Railway pier at Aguilas

: Aguilas train museum

: The tren turistico in Benidorm

: View from tren turistico, Benidorm

Pictures taken during research for Slow Trains to Venice: A Love Letter to Europe

: Victoria-Dover train

: On Dover-Calais ferry

: Ferry to Calais

: Churchill and De Gaulle, Calais

: L’Auberge des Migrants, Calais

: Calais-Lille train

: French strikes

: Pedal phone chargers, Lille

: Gare de Lille Flandres

: Cologne-Bonn train

: Bonn Station

: Hannover-Leipzig train

: View Hannover-Leipzig

: Leipzig Station

: Bayerischer Bahnhof, Leipzig

: Bar at Bayerisher Bahnhof

: Putin mug, Leipzig

: Leipzig Station

: Maastricht Treaty table

: Belgian conductor

: Bruges Station

: Bruges Station

: Belgian conductors

: Maastricht-Liege train

: Maastricht-Liege train

: Maastricht Treaty signing room

: Maastricht Treaty copy

: Douglas Hurd signing treaty

: Old station, Krakow

: Old loco at Opole Station, Poland

: Dining car, Bochnia-Przemysl, Poland

: Lviv Station

: Lviv Station

: Sacher-Masoch statue, Lviv

: Putin toilet paper, Lviv

: Lviv-Odessa conductor

: Odessa Station

: Odessa Station

: Odessa Station

: Bender Station, Transnistria

: Old loco, Bender Station

: Tiraspol Station, Transnistria

: Lviv-Budapest train

: Lviv-Budapest train

: Lviv-Budapest train cabin

: Budapest-Keleti Station

: Stephenson statue, Budapest

: Rail enthusiast, Budapest

: Old loco, Budapest

: Rail enthusiast, Budapest

: Train, Serbia

: Vrbas Station, Serbia

: Train in Serbia

: Dresden-Wroclaw train

: Graffiti, Novi Sad

: Dresden Station

: Remote station, Serbia

: Wroclaw Station

: Train, Novi Sad Station

: Wroclaw Station

: Slavonski Brod Station

: Opole Station

: Old loco, Slavonski Brod

: Slavonski Brod Station

: Katowice-Krakow train

: Chapel, Zagreb Station

: Train Caffe, Zagreb

: Train Caffe, Zagreb

: Lunch, Transnistria

: Old loco, Zidani Most, Croatia

: River Sava, Croatia

: Zagreb rail museum

: Innsbruck Station

: Zagreb-Ljubljana train

: Brenner Pass, Austria-Italy

: Innsbruck-Verona

: Innsbruck-Verona

: Innsbruck-Verona

: Innsbruck-Verona train

: Verona tourist ‘train’

: Verona Station

: Venice from train

: Venezia Santa Lucia Station

: Verona-Venice train

: View, Venezia Santa Lucia Station

: Venice from station

: Bridge of Sighs, Venice

: Venezia Santa Lucia Station

: Conegliano-Venice train

: Conegliano Station, Italy

: Jungfrau Railway, Switzerland

: Jungfrau Railway

: Jungfrau Railway

: Jungfrau Railway

Pictures taken during research for From Source to Sea: Notes from a 215-mile Walk Along the River Thames.

: Coronation Stone, Kingston

: Dorchester Abbey tea room

: Bridge at Teddington Lock

: Travelodge, Belvedere

: Crossness Sewage Treatment Works

: Remains of Wallingford Castle

: Burnt out motorbike, Thamesmead

: Strawberry Hill House

: Jeannette Hyde, Eel Pie Island

: Cargo ship by Greenhithe

: Tombleson’s map

: Hotel in Gravesend

: By Pangbourne Bridge

: Trewsbury Mead

: Graham in Richmond

: Lyd’s Well

: Pub in Sonning

: Wheat field near source

: Near the source

: Gravesend boatyard

: Orwell’s childhood home, Shiplake

: River near Ashton Keynes

: In Henley pub

: Path near Ashton Keynes

: Mortlake brewery

: Egypt Bay, Hoo Peninsula

: Pub in Cricklade

: Flower Pot pub, Aston

: Isle of Grain

: London Stone, Isle of Grain

: Tom Kerridge, Marlow

: Rob Jeffries, River Police Museum

: River Police Museum

: Nick Bailey, Chelsea Physic Garden

: Thames near Cliveden

: Old Father Thames, St John’s Lock

: St Paul’s Cathedral

: Jane Morris, Kelmscott

: Kelmscott Manor

: Fishermen at Kelmscott

: Inside the Grapes pub, Limehouse

: View from Downings Road Moorings

: Shepherd’s Hut, Newbridge

: Eton College

: River at Eton

: Hindu ceremony, Babcock Hythe

: US stamps at Mayflower pub, Rotherhithe

: Port Meadow, Oxford

: Crayfish, Oxford

: Hot tub boat, Runnymede

: Pub in Oxford

: National Maritime Museum

: JG Ballard’s former home, Shepperton

: Bill at Salter’s Steamers, Oxford

: View from Emirates Air Line cable car

: Abingdon county hall

: Thames Barrier

: Orwell’s grave, Sutton Courtenay

: Real tennis, Hampton Court

: Clifton Hampden Bridge

: Clifton Hampden

: Barley Mow, Clifton Hampden

: Cross Bones Graveyard, Southwark

: Sunset, Staines Bridge

: By the river near Staines

: Keith Cima, RNLI Tower Lifeboat Station

: Marlow Bridge

Pictures taken during research for Ticket to Ride: Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys, available from Summersdale.

: Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh

: Kent & East Sussex Railway

: Kent & East Sussex Railway

: Nallur Kandaswamy Temple, Jaffna, Sri Lanka

: Queen of Jaffna, Sri Lanka

: Policeman at Jaffna station, Sri Lanka

: National Rail Museum, New Delhi

: Waiter on train, Iran

: Chinese trainspotter

: View from train, China

: Amtrak loco, Seattle

: Chinese ‘wheel checker’

: View from Empire Builder train, USA

: Zanjan railway station sign

: Isfahan, Iran

: Siberia, Russia

: Shimla station, India

: Shimla station, India

: Fast food at Chinese station

: Stop-off in North Dakota, USA

: Tran-Siberian locomotive

: Snack seller, Russia

: Zero-alcohol beer, Iran

: Train driver, Macedonia

: Bullet train, China

: Station guard, Kosovo

: Conductor in Kosovo

: Outside mosque in Yazd, Iran

: Old basketball hoop in Cook, Australia

: Australian trans-continental

: Palace of Darius, Iran

: Locomotive in Turkey

: On the ‘Toy Train’

: ‘Toy Train’ in India

: Chinese business class

: Chinese buffet car

: ‘Toy Train’ in India

: Train in Kosovo

: ‘Lenin’ and ‘Stalin’ in Moscow

: Between New York and Chicago

: Station in India

: Station in India

: Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul

: Guard on New Delhi-Kalka train

: Bar in Tolstoy Night Train

: New Delhi-Kalka train

: Finnish immigration control on Tolstoy Night Train

: Grand Central station, New York

: Bill Clinton statue, Pristina, Kosovo

: Tolstoy Night Train, Helsinki-Moscow

: Helsinki train station

: At Crewe station

: Crewe Heritage Centre

Pictures taken in the Maldives during the research of Gatecrashing Paradise: Misadventures in the Real Maldives – available from amazon.co.uk, amazon.com, waterstones.com and barnesandnoble.com.

: The airport ferry arriving in Male

: Graffiti in favour of ‘Anni’, the deposed president Mohamed Nasheed

: A harbour at Male

: Hitching a lift on a coconut farmer’s tractor on Addu Atoll

: Playing checkers on Male

: The artificial beach on Male

: A Bodu Beru traditional dance on Male

: On a ferry to Hulhumale

: The Buddhist stupa at Isdhoo

: Cyclist on Isdhoo

: Mosque on Isdhoo

: Tetrapod sea-defence blocks on Male

: Crumbling fish market on Vilufushi

: Fish processing plant on Vilufushi

: Fish processing plant on Vilufushi

: New houses on Hulhumale

: Seaplane above Hulhumale

: Election bunting on Male

: Maldivian Democratic Party pro-guesthouse policy poster

: Maldives Climate Observatory on Hanimaadhoo

: Workers on ‘Rubbish Island’

: Boarding a ferry on Utheemu beach

: Former President Maumoon Gayoom

: Longest t-shirt slogan winner

: The Naza Express cargo ship

: X-ray results used to scare away birds on Goidhoo

: Poster of Gayoom at Progressive Party of Maldives office on Makunudhoo

: Dawn on Addu Atoll

: Asleep on a jolie on a tuna fishing boat

: Tuna fishing boat on Addu Atoll

: Fishing boat on Addu

: Fishing boat on Addu

: Unloading cargo on Vaadhoo

: Equator Village hotel on Addu Atoll

: Sir Alec Douglas-Home visiting Addu

: Six Senses Laamu

: Six Senses Laamu

: Bottle of brandy for $24,500 at the airport