In 2025 I took 4 months off work to travel around the world, using only ships and trains. I travelled across 17 countries, covered 40,000kms and filled 6 sketchbooks with 500 drawings. This is just a small selection
The map of my journey
Departure
Aboard the QM2
Heading into a Force 9
New York & Chicago
New York
Washington DC
The passenger who spoke not a word on the Empire Builder train from Chicago to Seattle
Ketchikan, Alaska
Juneau, Alaska
Tokyo-bound
Hiroshima
Seoul
Beijing- Hutongs
Beijing
Xian City Wall
Gobi Desert - Crossing China
Urumqi - capital of Xinjiang
Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan sleeper service
To the Aral Sea
Where there was once a sea, is now only a desert
Crossing the tricky Azerbaijan- Georgia border
Georgia to Turkey bus
Time for a cooling swim in the Black Sea
Fellow passengers on the Dogu Express
Balkans sleeper service
A tavern in Sofia with a cheery mural
Old and New Bucharest
The Szechenyi Baths Budapest
Stalin's boots in Statue Park, Budapest
Bruegel details at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Paris and homeward-bound