Lensography Retire Young and Travel The World...
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Andy's "Lensography" (Home Page) How to Retire Young and Travel the World
I am a semi-professional travel photographer (i.e. I once sold a few photos) and semi-retired consultant physicist (i.e. unemployed boffin) but with a keen interest in finance (i.e. how to get rich quick)
I live in Richmond-upon-Thames in West London, England, next to the beautiful Richmond Park, where deer roam free and cars are mostly stationary.
This lens is all about wildlife and photography, how to retire young and travel the world and of course how to finance it...
and a bit about Classic Cars, cooking and anything else I decide to write about. (If you want to know even more about me I have written a more detailed lensography...)
My "Rain forests of Borneo" Lens was awarded Lens of the Day (Twice!) and a "Purple Star":"
Over the last 25 years I have travelled all over Europe, Africa, Asia and North and South America and I am publishing articles and some photographs from many of my travels here. I am particularly keen on wildlife photography.
Here are a few of my other squidoo lenses, reviews and photos:
My Other Lenses:
- If you really want to know more about me...
- British Travel
- Travel: Wildlife Adventures
- Travel: USA and Canada
- Travel: More Wildlife and Nature
- Travel: Ancient Sites
- Travel: City Breaks
- Travel: Europe
- Hotel Reviews
- Some Essential Photographic Equipment
- Classic Cars
- Some More Essential Equpment From eBay
- Finance Articles
- Finance Articles
- UK Specific Finance
- More Finance Articles
- Gold. The ultimate portfolio insurance as the world economy collapses
- Cameras
- Photography Articles (and Photo Editing Software and Computers)
- Wildlife and Travel Photography
- More Wildlife Photography
- Creative Writing
- HiFi Turntables (Record Players, Gramophones...) and Home Cinema
- Cooking
- My Silicon Chip Design Consulting Company
- Creative Writing on Other Websites (Helium)
- Please Follow Me...
- All Finance Articles
- Travel Articles
- Theatre Reviews
- And a few more Articles
- More About Me...
- Wildlife Photography Calendar
- AndyPo's Guestbook
- My Zazzle Gallery
Travel Lenses
British Travel
Travel: Wildlife Adventures
Please see the featured lenses below for some of my adventures. Many are about wildlife and photography or culturure and historical.
An excellent travel web-site: Trivago... your travel guide
An excellent travel web-site: Trivago... your travel guide
Travel: USA and Canada
Travel: More Wildlife and Nature
Travel: Ancient Sites
Travel: City Breaks
Travel: Europe
Hotel Reviews
Some Essential Photographic Equipment
Classic Cars
Classic Cars
Some More Essential Equpment From eBay
Finance Articles
Finance Articles
UK Specific Finance
More Finance Articles
Gold. The ultimate portfolio insurance as the world economy collapses
As the dollar, euro, sterling and yen collapse against other major currencies gold and silver should retain value. It won't pay a dividend or make you rich, but it should help prevent becoming poor.
Buying gold coins on eBay is actually a very cost-effective way of acquiring exposure to precious metals.
Buying gold coins on eBay is actually a very cost-effective way of acquiring exposure to precious metals.
Photography Lenses
Cameras
Photography Articles (and Photo Editing Software and Computers)
Wildlife and Travel Photography
Here are some of my photographs and links to related photography lenses
More Wildlife Photography
Miscellaneous Lenses...
Creative Writing
HiFi Turntables (Record Players, Gramophones...) and Home Cinema
I have also written an article about HiFi Record Players (Gramophones, Record Decks, Turntables or whatever you want to call them) and home cinema
Cooking
Another passion is cooking (and eating) but I have never been much good at making bread or cakes... Until now.I've just discovered breadmakers:
Breadmakers
My Company
My Silicon Chip Design Consulting Company
And a bit more about me and my companyI am currently living in the U.K. and after 20 years working in the electronic design industry as a design consultant, I have finally gone out on my own to form my own consulting company, but I have also diversified into travel and wildlife photography, a life-long passion. I also have a keen (non-professional) interest in "Financial Engineering" i.e. How to get rich...er (although my company does not provide financial advice and these are entirely for personal interest and should not be taken as a recommendation to invest)
SquiDirectory - A categorized Squidoo directory featuring an interesting variety of different subjects ranging from arts and literature, shopping, and eco friendly tips, to vehicles for sale, travel, and everything in between.
Creative Writing on Other Websites (Helium)
Helium is another great website for publishing writing. I have published the following articles there:Rio de Janeiro: A Travel Diary
Brazil Vacation
Bangkok (during a military coup)
Tiger Safari in India
Marrakech Morocco
Vacation in Cuba
African Safari: Namibia
Ferrari 308 GTS
Jaguar XJ12
Jaguar XKR
Ferrari 308 GTS
Jaguar XJ12
Jaguar XKR
Investing in National Savings Premium Bonds
How to Reduce Risk of Your Investment Portfolio
Corporate Bonds
Please Follow Me...
I also can be found at the following locations under the name of
AndyPo:
Tagfoot
Stumbleupon
Digg (AndrewPo)
Delicious (AndyPo)
Lensroll
Squidom
Squoogle
Isle of Squid
Squidoo Review
Delicious
Digg (AndrewPo)
Zazzle Gallery
AndyPo:
Tagfoot
Stumbleupon
Digg (AndrewPo)
Delicious (AndyPo)
Lensroll
Squidom
Squoogle
Isle of Squid
Squidoo Review
Delicious
Digg (AndrewPo)
Zazzle Gallery
All Finance Articles
Finance Articles:Get Rich Slowly
What to do with your Lottery Winnings (and Beat The Credit Cruch)
Spread-betting Strategy"
Balance Your Portfolio - Buy Gold and Silver!"
Make Money From Home on the Internet
Technical Analysis
UK-Specific Finance:
National Savings and Investment Premium Bonds
UK Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs)
UK Personal Pensions
Investment Trusts
Zero Dividend Preference Shares
Stock Tips (where to get good ones)
Trading Shares Online
Travel Articles
Wildlife and Nature:Borneo Jungle Adventure
Namibian Safari
Safari In Botswana
The Amazon Jungle Experience (Brazil)
USA National Parks in an RV
Canada. Vancouver and the Rockies
The Rocky Mountaineer Train Journey
The Apes of Gibraltar
Indian Tiger Safari
Komodo Dragons in Indonesia
Iguacu Waterfalls in Brazil
The Inca Trail in Peru
City Vacations:
Explore China
Rio de Janeiro
Salavador, The Carnival City in Brazil
Marrakech, Morocco
Maharajas' Palace Hotels in India
The Pyramids of Mexico
Egypt
and
An excellent travel web-site: Trivago... your travel guide
Theatre Reviews
And a few more Articles
Some articles about photo-editing software, computers and digital scanners:Photo Editing Software
Apple Macbook
Scanning Photographs
Nikon D80/D90
35mm Slide and Film Cameras
Compilations and links to some of my photos:
Wildlife Photography
Travel Photography
Some Classic Cars Articles:
Ferrari 308 GTS
Jaguar XKR
Jaguar XJ12
Alfa Spider
I have also written an article about HiFi Record Players (Gramophones, Record Decks, Turntables or whatever you want to call them)
HiFi Gramophones
More About Me...
A detailed lensography
Wildlife Photography Calendar
AndyPo's Guestbook
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JoshK47
Jun 28, 2011 @ 10:07 am | delete
- I do hope I can include so many travels in my lenses someday! Great work
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Jun 11, 2011 @ 4:44 pm | delete
- habits of his manhood, all his boy's promise. I heard in his now deep phoslo online. tones the accent of former days. Certain turns of phrase, peculiar to prandin online.
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LV Handbags
May 17, 2011 @ 3:48 am | delete
- Thank you for sharing with us,I too always learn something new from your post! Great article. I wish I could write so well.
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Margo_Arrowsmith
Dec 5, 2010 @ 5:10 pm | delete
- Too late to retire young, but I can retire healthy and stay that way for another 40 years and travel!
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aesta1
Nov 18, 2010 @ 6:58 am | delete
- What a great life...somehow we do live a similar life with our own consulting firm except that we are much older. Admire you for living such a life at your age. All the best.
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Brookelorren
Nov 4, 2009 @ 12:36 am | delete
- Cool lens! I'd love to do more travelling. Maybe I can do more once I build up my business.
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Tipi
Sep 4, 2009 @ 7:21 pm | delete
- I guess I'm semi retired but not getting rich. Stopped by to say hi and let you know I'm thinking warm thoughts of you two. Hope all is well and you're having some fun. I'm going to take a mini vacation over Labor Day weekend in hopes of shooting some more orbs, relax and get away form it all. No computer, phone, TV, grandkids, and lots of campfires.
Susie
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JaguarJulie
Jun 29, 2009 @ 3:24 pm | delete
- OMG! Here we are waxing nostalgically -- time to retire! ;)
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spirituality
May 15, 2009 @ 9:23 am | delete
- Great lensography - you've been blessed by a squidoo angel :)
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Senora_M
Apr 27, 2009 @ 9:35 pm | delete
- Retiring young sounds like a plan to me. 5*s!
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kiwisoutback
Mar 5, 2009 @ 2:09 pm | delete
- I've done some travelling, but no retiring yet. I'm under 30, so retiring is way down the road (but doing it young and travelling sounds pretty good). Great lensography.
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ElizabethJeanAllen
Feb 25, 2009 @ 5:21 pm | delete
- I'm past the point of retiring young. I just want to retire. Travel--Never too old to travel.
Great lens.
Lizzy
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Lotusland
Feb 17, 2009 @ 9:41 am | delete
- Great life, great lensography. Rated *****, favorited and lensrolled to
108 Things I Got To Do On My Year Off
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tplus
Feb 16, 2009 @ 1:50 pm | delete
- Welcome to the Lensography-ography Group!
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motus in sardinia
Feb 10, 2009 @ 7:17 am | delete
- congratulations on your blog. i look forward to seeing you in sardinia, italy. mario www.motus.sardinia.it
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motus in sardinia
Feb 10, 2009 @ 7:17 am | delete
- congratulations on your blog. i look forward to seeing you in sardinia, italy. mario www.motus.sardinia.it
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seegreen
Jan 21, 2009 @ 1:27 am | delete
- You are living my life! Well, without the physicist part. I just bought a D40 which I am learning how to use and having lots of fun with.
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Jan 14, 2009 @ 4:45 am | delete
- It's too late to retire young, but I still want to travel. You've been to some awesome places.
Great lensograhy.
Lizzy
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anthropos
Jan 13, 2009 @ 5:00 pm | delete
- Congratulations on attaining Giant Squid status.
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rms
Jan 13, 2009 @ 4:26 pm | delete
- Congratulations and welcome to the Giant Squid lensmaster program! Well done!
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Joan4
Jan 12, 2009 @ 2:27 pm | delete
- The two photographs at the top of this page are amazing! Just beautiful! Fun, too, too see all your travels and lenses on one page. What a life!
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JaguarJulie
Jan 12, 2009 @ 1:31 pm | delete
- Ah, just what I'd love to do --> retire early, travel the world, and be a published photographer. Always dreamt about being a photo-journalist with National Geographic.
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thrivingmom
Jan 12, 2009 @ 7:41 am | delete
- That photo at the top of the page with the birds flying is breath taking. You're very talented. Thank you for joining my "Squidoo Lensographies" group.
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AndyPo
Jan 12, 2009 @ 6:35 am | in reply to Bob P | delete
- The silicon chip design business has been very slow in 2008, but then I didn't intend to do much consulting - after-all I am "semi-retired" I did quite a lot of travel and lots of study.
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Bob P
Jan 12, 2009 @ 5:36 am | delete
- Hi Andy,
I just came over from your Silicon Chip design web-site. I didn't realize you were so well traveled. Interesting articles. How is the chip-design business going?
Cheers...
Bob
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steamtown Jan 5, 2009 @ 4:08 pm | delete
- Great Photography I love animal and landscape photography
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AndyPo
Dec 16, 2008 @ 4:47 am | in reply to Shelly | delete
- Thanks very much Shelly for your kind comments.
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Shelly
Dec 12, 2008 @ 7:09 pm | delete
- Couldn't help but stop by & check out some more of your work--from what I can see, excellence is simply your standard. As I breeze through squidooland, I notice that you encourage many long the way--I think many folks look forward to seeing your smile.
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RinchenChodron
Nov 16, 2008 @ 7:27 pm | delete
- You certainly are prolific - all your travels look like great fun. Thanks for this lens.
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Sylviane_Nuccio
Nov 12, 2008 @ 9:45 pm | delete
- Quite interesting. I love outdoors, animals photography and writing articles ahahah my kind of lens I guess!
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Evelyn_Saenz
Nov 12, 2008 @ 8:11 am | delete
- Gorgeous photography! Love the bear with salmon.
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Jewelsofawe
Nov 10, 2008 @ 3:56 pm | delete
- That picture with all the birds is so cool!
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Susan52
Nov 9, 2008 @ 9:30 am | delete
- Terrific lensography, and no wonder with your background. Sounds like you have a whole lot of material for more and more lenses. Good! (Lensrolling to my lensography.)
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JustBon-Crochet-Designs
Nov 4, 2008 @ 9:10 am | delete
- I always enjoy your pages. Great stuff! 5*s
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AndyPo
Nov 1, 2008 @ 5:40 am | delete
- Hi Daz,
Welcome to Squidoo. It's certainly a bit different to dooyoo.
The money comes in rather slowly initially, so you have to wait about two months before anything happens.
It's fun though and you can add lots of photos.
Cheers,
Andy
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The_Daz
Oct 31, 2008 @ 6:27 am | delete
- ey up chap! dooyoo buddy Daz ere come to see what you're upto.
I've started here too..it's all exciting and shiny...!
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The_Daz
Oct 31, 2008 @ 6:27 am | delete
- ey up chap! dooyoo buddy Daz ere come to see what you're upto.
I've started here too..it's all exciting and shiny...!
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anthropos
Oct 27, 2008 @ 8:20 pm | delete
- Thanks for joining "Anything and Everything Travel" Group. We look forward to seeing your other travel related lenses in our group. Keep up the good work. For a categorized list of my travel lenses and other lenses see my Lensography..
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redfox26
Oct 23, 2008 @ 10:18 am | delete
- Thought i would drop by and check you out on here, love the lens. you have some lovely pictures on here.
Takecare and be lucky
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redfox26
Oct 23, 2008 @ 10:17 am | delete
- Thought i would drop by and check you out on here, love the lens. you have some lovely pictures on here.
Takecare and be lucky
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redfox26
Oct 23, 2008 @ 10:17 am | delete
- Thought i would drop by and check you out on here, love the lens. you have some lovely pictures on here.
Takecare and be lucky
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The_Bard
Oct 23, 2008 @ 5:44 am | delete
- Great lens Andy. 5*s. Guess what - were neighbours on the opposite sides of the river - I live in Brentford! Most days I'm in Richmond Park walking the dog!
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Tipi
Oct 23, 2008 @ 12:05 am | delete
- Hey, Andy-Po! You have 'hot' info...keep it coming. Thanks! You got it going on, so don't get discouraged by people that might give this lens a low star. I will return for your updates, because you make a lot of scenes.
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JustBon-Crochet-Designs
Oct 16, 2008 @ 11:46 am | delete
- Very nice page. I plan to visit some more of your lenses when time permits. 5*s.
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poddys
Oct 15, 2008 @ 9:30 am | delete
- Nice lensography, I am very envious of your travels. 5***** and I am looking forward to visiting the rest of your lenses.
I would love to go back to Iguacu, it's one of the most amazing places I have been to - I travelled for 12 years around Central/South America for work. Also would love to see the pyramids in Mexico City again, and so go on safari again...
I used to live in Morden, not far from you. Bushey Park is also nice for the deer. Surrey is a great county to live in.
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lisadh
Sep 22, 2008 @ 6:00 pm | delete
- Retiring young and traveling the world would be a dream come true! Good for you for living the dream. :-)
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Alrady
Sep 21, 2008 @ 12:11 pm | delete
- good page love that first elephant with birds picture. thanks
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Robyn_Abbatiello
Sep 21, 2008 @ 10:40 am | delete
- Andy, great page. I love all the great traveling you have done. You must have so many great exciting memories! Check out my travel page here
here.
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