Welcome to Honest Als Page

At present this site is mainly a series of photo collections of Alan and Pauline's adventures since leaving New Zealand for the UK in July 2003.

After a month of travelling to get to the UK, followed by three months of combined holiday and job hunting, we wound up in St Albans, just North of London, in January 2004. We've been based there ever since.


Photo collections by season and year

Important note

From Winter 2006, I am now putting much higher definition images on the site.
The images you see whilst browsing will be the same as ever (for the benefit of those without broadband), but if you click on a large image to view it full-size in its own screen, you will now get a 1600x1200 high quality JPEG. These are typically around 1.5 mB in size, so you might find 'em a bit slow.

(If anyone wants even higher definition photos, most of mine are now stored at 2560x1920, - 5 megapixels - so email me if you'd like one).

2004

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

2005

Spring
Summer
Autumn
New Zealand
Winter

2006

Egypt
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

2007

Portugal
Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

2008

Spring
Summer
Autumn
Winter

2009

Spring
Summer
Autumn

Other stuff

I was keeping a diary for the first little while, here's what I wrote. And heres's some notes on my impressions of the UK during our first few months (i.e. the latter part of 2003).
31 July - 15 September
16 September - October 22
Westward ho!
November 5th - December 25th
January-February 2004
September
October
November
December


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