Now that our 2015 travels are over, it's a busy time putting together the information and photographs for our latest DIY travel book. With all this wet weather the UK winter brings it's nice to spend time mulling over the adventures of last Spring and Summer.

When we were at the Gloucester meet, we realised that Aaron Calder does a similar thing.

The books of our travels are a diary of events backed up by dozens of photographs. We have also been compiling family events and history for a number of years. I was presented with a pictorial book of my first 65 years earlier this year and our kids each got a first 25 years book of photos as they reached that age.

There are any number of publishers for DIY books on the internet who can also offer a template if required

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Randa.

So Our Travels with the Eriba Book Number 9 arrived today.

We write a blog of our travels for a few reasons including trying to persuade folk that these trips can be done on a budget. However, Mrs R also takes my blog and along with a wealth of photos, puts it into book form using an on-line publisher. Just over £24 incl. postage but we hope it'll be treasured by our future generations.

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Randa

So, although last year was a bit of a wash out travel wise, we did manage to design and get our annual Travel Book printed. It included Mrs R's diary entries regarding life with Covid and also some of the Blog from our trip up North, with accompanying pictures.

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How did that pesky cat get her face on the front cover though? I was informed that it was either the cat or Motters in his pink crocs

Randa

What would be a great lockdown project Mike would be to take all those photos out of the wardrobe and scan them onto your computer. You can buy a decent flatbed scanner for about £50

We did all ours, including some Victorian ones and saved them in year date order so we have photos from all the years since 1975 and then a large file of older photos. So many that we now have them on an external drive but we can lay hands on any photo we would like to see, within minutes. We did it many years ago and it took us months but it's well worth it.

Doesn't save wardrobe space however because we didn't chuck out all the old prints and slides

Randa

Yes, but I still had the moustache in 1890.

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