Captain Sir Francis Light from Suffolk wasn’t travelling with a camera when he acquired Pulau Penang from the Sultan of Kedah in 1786. A statue of Sir Francis stands in Fort Cornwallis, George Town, where he stepped ashore for the first time and…

I couldn’t go all the way to Vietnam, travelling with a camera and miss out the Mekong Delta region.   What is the Mekong Delta?  In short, it is a huge maze of rivers, swamps, fruit orchards and paddy…

I was driving along the North Wales coast and came across this beautiful old transport steam ship, the Duke of Lancaster – what a find!  Out came the camera. I always like to look up…