"Welcome to Pete's Travel pages" Pete.Gibson's Profile

TRAVEL..............

Well I've finally got round to updating my home page, I've been traveling all my working career and have been lucky enough to visit many of the world’s major cities, of course once you have the travel bug then you just have to see more and more, so we try to take two or three vacations a year to visit those more of the beaten track places...........I intend to share all my memories and photos here on VT, if only i had more time to write them up and post them.
I've visited over 90 different countries........, met hundreds of fascinating people......, ate a myriad of different foods,.......immersed myself so many wonderful cultures, ........but still have a list as long as my arm of places i still want to see

I would love to hear about your exploits and opinions, so Happy Travelling wherever you may be

Welcome to Coventry

Coventry my hometown

Let me tell you a bit about Coventry, my home for the last 6 years, Its often bypassed by tourists for its more glamorous neighbours such as Warwick or Stratford upon Avon, which is a mistake as It is seeped in history and during medieval times was the 4th largest city in England, and arguably the best defended, The three bigger cities? London of course, Bristol and York.
Most of its beautiful buildings where destroyed when the city was extensively bombed during the second world war?The reason it was targeted was because of Coventry?s engineering excellence, which started back in the 1890?s when it was the cycle capital of the world, many of these manufacturers turned to motorcar production around the turn the century, Daimler where the first successful car manufacturer in Coventry, Over the years there has been 138 different car manufacturing companies in Coventry. In fact where my factory is now facing The modern new Coventry University Techno centre and business park, once stood the Deasy Motor car company which went on to become Armstrong Siddley and later Rolls Royce.
Other famous marques in Coventry include Jaguar, Riley, Daimler, Humber, Hillman and Alvis to name but a few.

South America

I'm fortunate to have made several trips to this beautiful continent but so far Peru, and Bolivia are my highlights please take the time to visit my pages, but beware this is still an ongoing project i still have many photos and lots yet to say

Goa

I Well i've update my Goa pages ,I've been there twice once on a budget and once staying at a 5star Hotel. I enjoyed both If you are intending to visit have a look hopefully I have given you a glimpse and a flavor of life in Goa, Historic sites, local culture, Luxury resorts, nice beaches and above all wonderfull people.

Beijing

Well I've got round to Beijing at last, This was my first visit to China and it certainly won?t be my last, I was lucky that business took me to Beijing the political, economic and more important to me its also the cultural capital
Beijing has been Inhabited continuously for over 3000yrs and 34 emperors have ruled from here, its also home to the forbidden city and the worlds largest central square Tiananman square, there is also good access to the Ming tombs and the great wall with limited time I had to chose what I went to see, I chose The Temple of heaven and the great wall also a flying visit to the Ming Tombs
The Great Wall of China , most of the wall in the Beijing area dates from the Ming Destiny (1386 ? 1644) it successfully held back marauders for centuries and now is a must see for any tourist visiting Beijing,

Paraguay

A memorial to the War heores

Asuncion in Paraquay not top of everyones list, But i enjoyed it tranquillity also felt very safe there, would have liked to spend time exploring the country a bit more

My Boys

well, I have been building pages since I joined and i feel like i've been running around like a headless chicken, I am going to add a few more Holiday snaps soon the ones taken on fmily holidays as apposed to the Business trips and travel trips if you get my drift, anyhow whatch this space!!

Thailand

Bangkok, I have just updated these pages yet again, found some more photos from a previous trip so if you fancy a look be my guest

ALL PHOTOS ON MY SITE HAVE BEEN TAKEN BY ME

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kandoi May 31, 2012 at 8:24 AM

Happy Birthday
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TrendsetterME May 31, 2012 at 8:15 AM

Hey Peter, "Happy Birthday", with all my best wishes .. :)
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DaHongHua May 31, 2012 at 8:00 AM

A warm happy birthday greeting from Malaysia.
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Amirreza.taheri May 31, 2011 at 12:59 PM

Hi. Happy Birthday
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janetanne May 31, 2011 at 9:47 AM

Happy Birthday 2011! Where every you may be, hope you are enjoying life. Janet
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LanaZg Jun 2, 2010 at 10:24 AM

sorry coz I late...wish you a happy birthday...kissess
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MikeStarr5 May 31, 2010 at 3:55 PM

Birthday Greetings from sunny Barking Town
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TheWanderingCamel May 30, 2010 at 5:51 PM

Happy Birthday Pete. Your Bolivian cable car stop is still one of my all time favourite photos on VT.
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RoyJava May 29, 2010 at 10:55 PM

Wishin' u a Happy Happy B-day from The Hague, Holland Pete, greetz RoyJava
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Segolily Sep 23, 2009 at 10:14 AM

Hi, just dropping by to say you were featured member when I signed on. Have a good day.