MagBazTravels Stall : MagBazWords Flow
The Angkor Wat Temple Complex at Siam Reap in Cambodia
Barry and Margaret Williamson
Locked Down in the Fylde
March 2021
Plus ça change, Plus c'est la même Chose!
MagBazTravels Stall
www.magbaztravels.com
It has been said that one computer-year is equivalent to 15 or 20 human years, such is the speed of change. Started whilst motorhoming across Australia in 2005, this makes our MagBazTravels website between 240 and 320 years old! The original programmers, Bec and Kev (now living on a croft in the Isle of Skye) report that for some time the Mambo-based site has been on life support and liable to operate unpredictably. Rather than risk losing it altogether, they have turned it into a static site.
All its features will continue to operate as now (and perhaps run even more speedily), fully available for reference although we won't be able to add new material. It will remain a tribute to all the many people it features, remembered and available all day and every day around the world.
The website was designed for use by existing and aspiring long-term, long-distance travellers by motorhome and/or bicycle. The powerful search engine can find answers among over a thousand articles and travel logs we have written based on journeys in 60 countries. There are also contributions from 78 Fellow Travellers; over 800 Readers' Comments; countless photographs; a myriad of links within and beyond the confines of the site; poetry; humour; 312 travel-related quotations; book lists; reflections; campsite reviews and quiet corners such as the one dedicated to the life and travels of world cyclist par excellence Ian Hibell (tragically killed by a hit-and-run driver in Athens in August 2008).
Locked Down in the Fylde
March 2021
Plus ça change, Plus c'est la même Chose!
MagBazTravels Stall
www.magbaztravels.com
It has been said that one computer-year is equivalent to 15 or 20 human years, such is the speed of change. Started whilst motorhoming across Australia in 2005, this makes our MagBazTravels website between 240 and 320 years old! The original programmers, Bec and Kev (now living on a croft in the Isle of Skye) report that for some time the Mambo-based site has been on life support and liable to operate unpredictably. Rather than risk losing it altogether, they have turned it into a static site.
All its features will continue to operate as now (and perhaps run even more speedily), fully available for reference although we won't be able to add new material. It will remain a tribute to all the many people it features, remembered and available all day and every day around the world.
The website was designed for use by existing and aspiring long-term, long-distance travellers by motorhome and/or bicycle. The powerful search engine can find answers among over a thousand articles and travel logs we have written based on journeys in 60 countries. There are also contributions from 78 Fellow Travellers; over 800 Readers' Comments; countless photographs; a myriad of links within and beyond the confines of the site; poetry; humour; 312 travel-related quotations; book lists; reflections; campsite reviews and quiet corners such as the one dedicated to the life and travels of world cyclist par excellence Ian Hibell (tragically killed by a hit-and-run driver in Athens in August 2008).
Nelson Mandela's House in the Johannesburg suburb of Soweto
MagBazWords Flow
www.magbazwords.com
Whilst MagBazTravels still exists, albeit frozen in time, we have developed another site to continue narratives of travel, as well as ranging more broadly on inter-linked subjects such as the Covid pandemic; the climate emergency; post-Brexit traumas; the crisis of capitalism; the ruinous state of the education system; commodification; the absurdities of English suburban life and, overall and perhaps underlying all this, the sad state of what passes for democracy in our country.
At the time of writing there are fourteen articles coupled with photographs on the site’s Contents page under the headings: ‘Brexit’, ‘Travel’, ‘Books’, ‘Poetry’, ‘Here and There' (glimpses of the passing scene) and 'Strange Times' (from our own correspondent). These are our first steps but, since there is no theoretical limit, ideas will change as the site develops. Particularly when we can get back on the road again.
www.magbazwords.com
Whilst MagBazTravels still exists, albeit frozen in time, we have developed another site to continue narratives of travel, as well as ranging more broadly on inter-linked subjects such as the Covid pandemic; the climate emergency; post-Brexit traumas; the crisis of capitalism; the ruinous state of the education system; commodification; the absurdities of English suburban life and, overall and perhaps underlying all this, the sad state of what passes for democracy in our country.
At the time of writing there are fourteen articles coupled with photographs on the site’s Contents page under the headings: ‘Brexit’, ‘Travel’, ‘Books’, ‘Poetry’, ‘Here and There' (glimpses of the passing scene) and 'Strange Times' (from our own correspondent). These are our first steps but, since there is no theoretical limit, ideas will change as the site develops. Particularly when we can get back on the road again.
Margaret at the Northernmost Point of the North Island of New Zealand
Our other three sites remain in existence:
MagBazPictures
http://www.magbazpictures.com/
This Weebly platform is a collecting ground for an unremitting output of photographs taken on our travels over the last 30 years, within and beyond the boundaries of Europe. While travelling mainly by motorhome and bicycle, we have also used a motorbike, trains, ferries, hired cars and campervans, aeroplanes, a good pair of boots as the need arose and only when really pushed did we take to a taxi.
Collected together by year and by country, they include images collected en passant during three round-the-world journeys each lasting one year, the first entirely by bicycle. They are a reference for us as well as being linked to articles in MagBazTravels.
MagBazPictures
http://www.magbazpictures.com/
This Weebly platform is a collecting ground for an unremitting output of photographs taken on our travels over the last 30 years, within and beyond the boundaries of Europe. While travelling mainly by motorhome and bicycle, we have also used a motorbike, trains, ferries, hired cars and campervans, aeroplanes, a good pair of boots as the need arose and only when really pushed did we take to a taxi.
Collected together by year and by country, they include images collected en passant during three round-the-world journeys each lasting one year, the first entirely by bicycle. They are a reference for us as well as being linked to articles in MagBazTravels.
Barry at the Site of the Siege of the Lucknow Residency during the Indian Mutiny of 1857
Holly Bank College
http://www.hollybank.magbaztravels.com/
Inherently attached to MagBazTravels, this website is a memorial to the college in Huddersfield where Barry spent much of what he calls his working life. This included teaching and development work in India, Malawi and Iraq, as well as in 30 extramural centres in further education colleges in the northeast of England. It is within that network that we two met and it is also the source of a very welcome pension. In other words, it is quite important to us and to the many thousands of mature students who have passed through its portals. Starting life as a College of Education (Technical) in 1947, it merged with the local Polytechnic in 1974 and transmogrified into a University in 1992. Barry got away soon afterwards!
http://www.hollybank.magbaztravels.com/
Inherently attached to MagBazTravels, this website is a memorial to the college in Huddersfield where Barry spent much of what he calls his working life. This included teaching and development work in India, Malawi and Iraq, as well as in 30 extramural centres in further education colleges in the northeast of England. It is within that network that we two met and it is also the source of a very welcome pension. In other words, it is quite important to us and to the many thousands of mature students who have passed through its portals. Starting life as a College of Education (Technical) in 1947, it merged with the local Polytechnic in 1974 and transmogrified into a University in 1992. Barry got away soon afterwards!
200-year-old St Andrew's Church in Chennai/Madras
Murdoch MacKenzie of Madras and Scotland
http://www.murdochmackenzieofargyll.com/
Barry first met Murdoch in Madras/Chennai in 1973. On a year's secondment, Barry was developing the Physics curriculum for Polytechnics in the four-state Southern Region of India. Murdoch was the Minister of St Andrew's Kirk in the city, along with Anne and their three children (two of whom were born in India). A fluent Tamil speaker, Murdoch was to spend 12 years tirelessly supporting the poorest of the poor in the city's slum areas, as well as subsistence peasants in surrounding villages.
We met again in Connel on the west coast of Scotland in July 2012 and worked together to create this Weebly website for Murdoch’s many papers, articles, reviews, radio broadcasts and sermons. Parents and children each have their own account of the family's return to Scotland in 1978 – overland by public transport. Quite early in the journey their bus broke down in the Khyber Pass and was sold to a passing tribesman for a thousand dollars!
Following Murdoch's untimely death in February 2015, the website became a memorial to his life and to his work.
Treasure your time while you may: life is so ephemeral.
http://www.murdochmackenzieofargyll.com/
Barry first met Murdoch in Madras/Chennai in 1973. On a year's secondment, Barry was developing the Physics curriculum for Polytechnics in the four-state Southern Region of India. Murdoch was the Minister of St Andrew's Kirk in the city, along with Anne and their three children (two of whom were born in India). A fluent Tamil speaker, Murdoch was to spend 12 years tirelessly supporting the poorest of the poor in the city's slum areas, as well as subsistence peasants in surrounding villages.
We met again in Connel on the west coast of Scotland in July 2012 and worked together to create this Weebly website for Murdoch’s many papers, articles, reviews, radio broadcasts and sermons. Parents and children each have their own account of the family's return to Scotland in 1978 – overland by public transport. Quite early in the journey their bus broke down in the Khyber Pass and was sold to a passing tribesman for a thousand dollars!
Following Murdoch's untimely death in February 2015, the website became a memorial to his life and to his work.
Treasure your time while you may: life is so ephemeral.