James Shearer

As promised, I have put up a few photographs from my Italian travels. I apologise for the gloomy, grey appearance of Milan but even the Med countries get autumn weather.

My Italy travel photos

By the time I arrived in Switzerland and the southern side of the Alps the rainy weather had caught up with me. Low clouds and mist from the Alpine lakes shrouded the views so my time was spent in and around the Italian speaking Swiss town of Lugano.

As I headed north and through the Alps the blue skies, sunshine and fresh air made up for it all. Spectacular views of Europe’s highest mountains from one of the fastest trains and passing through some of the longest tunnels in the world.

Zurich offered gentle strolls down the side of Zurichsee and through the narrow streets of the old city in the heart of German speaking Switzerland. Access by the hundreds of trams made getting about so quick and enjoyable in one of the cleanest, most charming cities I have visited.

Photos of Switzerland including Lugano, the Alps and Zurich

After returning from my travels in Italy and Switzerland I have put together a gallery with a selection of Swiss snaps.

My photos of Switzerland

Some text about Switzerland and Italy will appear here soon. The Italian photos will also be available shortly.

My web site, Trail Canada, has just had another boost as far as content and services goes. I recently added a 1,600+ Canadian hotel guide with online rates and availability checking and the ability to book.

With the new facility, Trail Canada now has over 5,000 pages of content making it the largest travel guide to Canada and with the increasing number of daily visitors Trail Canada easily claims the top spot for being the most popular travel guide to Canada.

The next milestone will be to overtake travelcanada.ca - the official Canadian Tourism Commission’s web site for inbound travel. I estimate this will happen in the next 8 to 10 weeks.

A dedicated Canadian Hotel Guide will be launched shortly to compliment the existing network of Trail Canada web sites which includes:
Canada Travel Guide
Canada Photos
Canada Maps

For more information, please visit Trail Canada the complete guide for travel to Canada.

www.trailcanada.com

A lot has happened, today, this week, this month, year. Well for a long time now but I think I can safely say today is one of those days which will be a defining moment in time.

Today it begins.

What is “it” ? It is the rest of my life.

I have created a template design system that runs off CSS. The idea of this is that people can choose a design and apply it to a site created with this in mind.

CSS is the way forward for designing clean, user friendly, accessible sites. This is great for search engines and site management.

This web site uses the same concept.

Check out the HotScot Design Templates at www.hotscot.net/designs