Sam Watson
@samwatson1.bsky.social
Itinerant scruff. Sometimes writer. Traveller. York, Glencoe, Cairo, Beirut, Bulawayo etc. Left-leaning Europhile.
After being slightly derailed by developments at home, progress resumes with book. Met with editor last night and we are wrapping up a few loose ends
August 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
After being slightly derailed by developments at home, progress resumes with book. Met with editor last night and we are wrapping up a few loose ends
August 2022 with Patrick Adaimi, Ghssoub Frangieh and Jean Pierre Melki above the clouds on the slopes of Qurnat Al Sawda, highest peak in 🇱🇧 Lebanon
August 20, 2025 at 11:37 AM
August 2022 with Patrick Adaimi, Ghssoub Frangieh and Jean Pierre Melki above the clouds on the slopes of Qurnat Al Sawda, highest peak in 🇱🇧 Lebanon
Camp in Snowdonia two days ago, looking northwest to the mountains
August 18, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Camp in Snowdonia two days ago, looking northwest to the mountains
January 2013, with my Dad, searching for Neolithic flints in the Egyptian desert
July 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
January 2013, with my Dad, searching for Neolithic flints in the Egyptian desert
October 2003, taking my Mum and Dad on a desert trip - descending the Qatrani escarpment in the Egyptian Sahara.
July 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
October 2003, taking my Mum and Dad on a desert trip - descending the Qatrani escarpment in the Egyptian Sahara.
August 2005, a pause for a mug of tea whilst on antipoaching patrol on Mt Kenya with team from Born Free Foundation and Kenya Wildlife Service
June 29, 2025 at 1:01 PM
August 2005, a pause for a mug of tea whilst on antipoaching patrol on Mt Kenya with team from Born Free Foundation and Kenya Wildlife Service
April 2022, in a 1953 Series One, climbing up into the cloud forests of the Kanchenjunga massif north of Phikkal Bazar in the Himalayas of eastern Nepal
June 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
April 2022, in a 1953 Series One, climbing up into the cloud forests of the Kanchenjunga massif north of Phikkal Bazar in the Himalayas of eastern Nepal
Really impressed with the Fire-Maple lanterns tonight. No mantles, no messing about, just controllable light and heat on demand. Top kit.
June 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Really impressed with the Fire-Maple lanterns tonight. No mantles, no messing about, just controllable light and heat on demand. Top kit.
June 2010, on the North Yorkshire Moors in "Custard" my 1997 Camel Trophy - doing some offroad training for a group of cars going overland to Mongolia
June 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
June 2010, on the North Yorkshire Moors in "Custard" my 1997 Camel Trophy - doing some offroad training for a group of cars going overland to Mongolia
October 2022, Sharjah, dawn.
June 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
October 2022, Sharjah, dawn.
Out in the fierce little beast again ❤️ Need stronger glue for wig.
June 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Out in the fierce little beast again ❤️ Need stronger glue for wig.
Reposted by Sam Watson
“Ever since Caesar’s pivotal decision, mankind has understood that the deployment of a nation’s armies against its own people marks the end of that nation.”
Hot Type: The Die is Cast
American political correspondent Heidi Siegmund Cuda tries to make sense of a truly terrible week in the history of America
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June 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
“Ever since Caesar’s pivotal decision, mankind has understood that the deployment of a nation’s armies against its own people marks the end of that nation.”
Not quite the desert, but a good night
June 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Not quite the desert, but a good night
Taking Elsa out on a long term test to shakedown some new systems and wiring I've installed. Going to wild camp unsupported for a few days in the forests of N Yorkshire and see how everything works together.
June 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Taking Elsa out on a long term test to shakedown some new systems and wiring I've installed. Going to wild camp unsupported for a few days in the forests of N Yorkshire and see how everything works together.
Getting a brew on - morning tea on my campfire in Wadi Rum, Jordan, Sept 2001
June 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Getting a brew on - morning tea on my campfire in Wadi Rum, Jordan, Sept 2001
August 2005, a herd of Masai cattle heading for water under the active volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, Tanzania.
June 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
August 2005, a herd of Masai cattle heading for water under the active volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, Tanzania.
Waking up on the lee side of the Land Rover after a night under the stars - Sept 2011 with Stella the Defender in the Egyptian desert
June 4, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Waking up on the lee side of the Land Rover after a night under the stars - Sept 2011 with Stella the Defender in the Egyptian desert
A catchup with Benjamin Stowe and Theo Ford-Sagers, being ten years since we took Ben's Series 1 and Theo's Series 2 up to the Rochemolles glacier in the Italian Alps
May 24, 2025 at 10:53 AM
A catchup with Benjamin Stowe and Theo Ford-Sagers, being ten years since we took Ben's Series 1 and Theo's Series 2 up to the Rochemolles glacier in the Italian Alps
For several years I've been a huge fan of Kinlochleven Brewery and their excellent River Leven Ales. Sooooo chuffed to receive a t shirt today - with a logo whose design reminds me of something else very important to me...
May 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
For several years I've been a huge fan of Kinlochleven Brewery and their excellent River Leven Ales. Sooooo chuffed to receive a t shirt today - with a logo whose design reminds me of something else very important to me...
August 2010 - Elsa and I crossing the almost-dry Ounila river in the Atlas mountains of Morocco
May 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
August 2010 - Elsa and I crossing the almost-dry Ounila river in the Atlas mountains of Morocco
Feb 2020, Venus setting over a firelit camp in the Hajjar mountains, Ras Al Khaimah
May 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Feb 2020, Venus setting over a firelit camp in the Hajjar mountains, Ras Al Khaimah
Periodically whilst working on Elsa my Defender I unearth coins from past travels stuffed under seats or forgotten in cubbyholes - just found this lot of Moroccan dirhams, Belgian francs (pre Euro) and euros :)
May 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Periodically whilst working on Elsa my Defender I unearth coins from past travels stuffed under seats or forgotten in cubbyholes - just found this lot of Moroccan dirhams, Belgian francs (pre Euro) and euros :)
I've worked w Kenya Wildlife Service & Born Free Foundation a few times in Kenyan Nat. Parks & I had these in storage- bush knife KWS Rangers gave me & carved food stirrer made by poachers, a memento of when we surprised them & chased them frm their camp on Mt Kenya in 2005. Penknife for scale
May 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I've worked w Kenya Wildlife Service & Born Free Foundation a few times in Kenyan Nat. Parks & I had these in storage- bush knife KWS Rangers gave me & carved food stirrer made by poachers, a memento of when we surprised them & chased them frm their camp on Mt Kenya in 2005. Penknife for scale
May 2015, out in the Egyptian Sahara with Stella the 110
May 14, 2025 at 11:58 AM
May 2015, out in the Egyptian Sahara with Stella the 110
Three years ago today, woke up in a beautiful hill farm in eastern Nepal ❤️
Kipling "....a little border station, Tucked away below the foot hills where the trails run out and stop"
Kipling "....a little border station, Tucked away below the foot hills where the trails run out and stop"
May 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Three years ago today, woke up in a beautiful hill farm in eastern Nepal ❤️
Kipling "....a little border station, Tucked away below the foot hills where the trails run out and stop"
Kipling "....a little border station, Tucked away below the foot hills where the trails run out and stop"