First trip to Venice since I was a kid. Superb place to wander around exploring - especially off-season without the crowds!

Images from the Lofoten Islands in Arctic Norway

Some images from a short trip to Rome in midsummer

A weekend in Bruges, Belgium

Images from Antwerp, in the Flanders region of Belgium, near the border with the Netherlands

Images of Amsterdam from a beautiful weekend in October 2011

Images of Paris in winter.

Images from the beautful French town of Lyon, taken in August 2010

Images from in and around Chamonix, in the Haute-Savoie region of south-west France, overshadowed by Mont Blanc and jagged peaks.

Images of the Picos de Europa mountain range in northern Spain, taken in October 2011

Images in and around the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, designed by American architect Frank Gehry

Photographs taken around Bilbao, in the Basque region of northern Spain

A rather short weekend in the Bavarian capital, Munich, or München, sampling the architecture, bierwurst and (too much) bier!