Articles by Keith Kellett
Retired from the Royal Air Force in 1996; have been a freelance writer and photographer ever since. Writes about travel, food, history, old steam engines, boats and cars.
A recent television programme, dealing with the islands around the British Isles, caught my attention. Brief visits were made to many of my favourite islands, including one to my very favourite, the little-known but fascinating …
Words and Pictures by Keith Kellett
I was surprised to learn recently that the only country in which camels can be found in the wild is … Australia! They’re not native to Australia, of course, but, …
Story and Pictures by Keith Kellett.
We weren’t going to get off the ship at Fujairah. The guide books have little to say about it … although some mention that it was the poorest state in …
Words and pictures by Keith Kellett
Maastricht is really somewhere you pass through on the way to somewhere else, rather than a destination in its own right. Even the Romans regarded it that way, and saw …
Pictures and Video by Keith Kellett
He was standing on the Circular Quay at Sydney, wearing the uniform of an 18th Century Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. Although he looked nothing like him, he was re-enacting …
From the Battlements
Story and Pictures by Keith Kellett
I came upon this sign just outside Cork. It indicates the way to two well-known places. You’ve probably heard of them even if you’ve never been to Ireland, …
Words and video by Keith Kellett
The organisers of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race describe it as a race for ‘people like you’. They like to point out that more people have climbed …
Story and Photos by Keith Kellett
At about 75 miles long, Fraser Island is the largest sand island in the world. In spite of substantial logging operations in the past, remains pretty well as it was …
Words and Pictures by Keith Kellett.
In a way, the Ancient Romans were probably more civilised than we are. When the Roman Emperor Publius Aelius Hadrianus, known to his friends as Hadrian, decided in AD 122 …
Words and Pictures by Keith Kellett
If anything could be described as Australia’s National Dish, it’s probably the meat pie. Don’t ask what kind of meat it is; American writer Doug Lansky once asked what went …
It is sometimes said that tapas in Spain came about as the result of the command of a King. Alfonso X, concerned at the high incidence of drunkenness in his army, proclaimed that strong drink …
Story and Photos by Keith Kellett
To tell the truth, I wasn’t much looking forward to the tour of Dubai. From what I’d read, there’s really nothing to do here except shop … if you …
Story, photos and video by Keith Kellett
Salamanca stands on the River Tormes, which many people who regularly take part in Vaughantown programmes know, because, in its infancy, that river also flows near the regularly-used hotel …
Most European people first heard of Tunisia when they bought a box of dates, usually as a treat at Christmas. Those date boxes are also the means by which many people learn their first words …
Every time I travel on London’s Underground, or the Tube, to give it its more common name, I offer up a silent prayer of thanks to Harry Beck. It was he who, in 1931, …
by Keith Kellett
Kuranda is a mountain town in the coastal hills beyond Cairns, in northern Queensland. It’s a rather arty-crafty, ethnic-sandals-and-incense sort of place, a hangover from the Sixties, when there was a thriving hippy …
If you wanted to be really pedantic, you could say there’s only one lake in England’s Lake District. That’s Bassenthwaite Lake. All the others have the words ‘–water’ or
‘–mere’ incorporated into their names, thereby making …
Story and Photos by Keith Kellett
Just about every book, article or television clip about Australia’s Great Barrier Reef will tell you it’s so huge, it’s easily visible from a satellite in space. Nevertheless, back …
by Keith Kellett
Pictures by Keith and Lorraine Kellett
I’m probably unique in that I visited Jordan twice before I saw Petra. My only excuse is that I was there on business. But, this time, I …
by Keith Kellett
Pictures by Keith & Lorraine Kellett
I can’t help it.
Whenever I do something, I compare it with something similar I did in the past. When I cruised Australia’s River Murray in 2006, I couldn’t …
