So what have I been up to since we got back to the UK? Spending even more time in front of a screen than usual, sadly.
I’m back to work, constructing next year’s school timetable – which involves sitting at a computer all day. Then I come home to sort through the 15,000 photographs we took during our trip, selecting the best ones and assembling them into a photobook – i.e. even more sitting at a computer. And when I need a break from it all there’s the World Cup and Wimbledon – on television.
Anyway, earlier today I completed a nice 160-page coffee-table book of our choicest images, and by the wonders of the internet you can have a sneak preview below – you can even purchase a copy if you’re feeling flush.
I use Faststone Image Viewer for browsing, editing and sorting our photos, and BookSmart from blurb for assembling and self-publishing the book. I uploaded the files this morning and in a few weeks I should receive three hardback copies…
The next project is to convert this entire blog (text and all) into a book; early indications are that it will fill two 400-page volumes.
P.S. I’ve been using the Optimum font (as featured in the above book) in print for a good ten years now - it has a certain classical elegance - and I used to see it nowhere else but in Marks & Spencer adverts. But I come back from our trip to find that it’s everywhere nowadays. Tins of Quality Street, Chambers Dictionary, National Trust booklets, even the Wimbledon electronic scoreboard. Suppose I’ll have to find a new font now…
Beautiful book!
Tim, welcome back! Fancy a coffee someti
me?
Chris
Hello Tim and familiy,
here is Manuela and Enrico from Germany (we did the salt lake tour in Bolivia together).
After nearly 8 month I´ve found a little paper with your internet address (you gave us in the salt hotel in Bolivia) and I was really happy to see the great picture and your great tour. You did the best!!!!! I hope New Zealand was great – I was there and I love the country. I can imagine how hard it is, to settle down after such a trip. Hope you feel well at home. How are the girls????
We’re off on Monday (13th) on a rtw trip with our 5 & 3yr old daughters. We have read a lot of your blog, it’s been great. Hope you’ve all settled down back in the uk ok.