Latest Update: The latest pictures are of Germany and Belgium from our trip there in August 2011. I've also added a blog and pictures about my first ultramarathon race.
Blogs: Check out the links on the left for my completed blogs from Asia, New Zealand, and Australia, plus one I kept mainly to encourage myself detailing my training for the 2010 London Marathon. I still try to update "Homecoming" very occasionally with thoughts about returning to live in Scotland.
Interesting link: While staying in Glasgow we started running the "Glasgow parkrun" on a Saturday. This excellent concept is to have a free to enter,
weekly 5km race on an attractive course where you can just turn up and run. It is mostly organized online with the help of volunteers on the day, and after months of work we held the first Inverness parkrun on
3rd September 2011. There are now over 100 runs with and increasing number outside the UK and new venues starting almost every week.
Where are we now? After moving back to Scotland in early 2009 we moved north to Inverness, a rapidly expanding city situated between Loch Ness and the Moray Firth in northeast Scotland. I'm enjoying working as a dentist again, combining both clinical and public health aspects of the job. At the moment Tracy is working even further north, on the island of Hoy in the Orkneys, off Scotland's north coast. I'm working in Nairn, Inverness and latterly Caithness and Sutherland, travelling to Orkney regularly so there are lots of pictures of the area.
Mainland Orkney from Hoy
River Ness in Inverness
I've spent much of the last 21 years travelling, when the need to earn money didn't intervene, and taken a lot of pictures. If you have a slow internet connection you'll need to be patient. I have posted pictures from countries I have lived in (Malawi, the UK, USA, Grenada, New Zealand, Australia), my more recent travels (Ecuador, Costa Rica, Grenada, Asia) and there are links to complete sites I put together in the past dedicated to a medical mission in Uganda and Kenya and two marathon bike rides.
Finally, I am interested in genealogy so if you are researching any of the names Cooke, Arnold, Lee, Bannister and Whitaker (mainly from England) have a look at the family trees.
