People

Wendy and David Hurst

Ivan Hurst People 24 August 2016

Wendy Hurst

Wendy Hurst at Legends Hotel

Wendy on the terrace of our room at Legends Hotel, Mauritius

Wendy grew up in Lincoln, where her parents still live. Wendy had just started working as a physiotherapist when we met in Ipswich. We have now been married nearly forty years.

Which trips were Wendy involved with:-

Almost all apart from The Grand Tour, too many to list here.

David Hurst

David in Vancouver David at one of the tree walks at Capilano Suspension Bridge, Vancouver, Canada.

David is our son.

He was born in Epsom, Surrey, England.

Which trips were David involved with:-

Almost all from his birth, again too many to list here.

Trans Asia 1977 Eastbound - Core team

Ivan Hurst People 24 August 2016

Core team for Trans Asia 1977 Eastbound

What do I mean by Core team? It the context of this trip, it is the people we met at McDonalds, those that we left England with. Annie, Celia, Chris, Ivan and Pete. The five of us got to know each other on the trip and made it all the way to Kathmandu together, with many adventures along the way.

The picture above is (L to R) Annie, Pete, Chris, and Celia on a outcrop by a river in Yugoslavia.

Encounter Overland TRANS ASIA EB - People

Ivan Hurst People 16 September 2016

The Encounter Overland Asia trip started on 28th September 1978 in Old Brompton Road with me as the leader/driver. As this was my first trip with Encounter Overland I was accompanied by Alan, an experienced and respected EO leader/driver for the first part of the expedition.

Trans Asia 1975 people

Ivan Hurst People 18 September 2016

The Core team for the Trans Asia 1975 trip

Whilst originally the core team of interested travellers was much larger, it ended up on the day before departure as three people, and then on the raining dismal morning of departure, in the Woolworths car park in the centre of Hatfield Hertfordshire, it reduced again to two. So that was it, the core team was down to just Peter Dryer and Ivan Hurst, that's me.

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Change of host Sept 2023

In the begining of August 2023 I transfered my ivanhurst.me.uk sites, including this one from 123-reg to IONOS. It was meant to be a simple task. However, that was to to be the case. The reason for the move was primarily the hugh increase in price that 123-reg was applying regarding email boxes. Previously, the upto 500 of the boxes were included in the various hosting packages I had. Now they were going to charge for each mailbox based on size, and as far as I could make out, this was going to cost me nearly £2,000. This was not acceptable, and I did not get satisfactory answers from support. So I turned off all the auto renews and stated to move sites and domains accross to IONOS.

Travel data problems

This is where it starts to get a little technical.

The site is built on a content management system, CMS, using Joomla. Joomla is moving forward and version 3.10.?? is being discontinued. Future developments are for version 4.??

Similarly, PHP 7 is being replaced with PHP 8.

Part of the migration is relatively simple, I have already changed to a new template which works on the new platforms.

However, some of the helper applications, which work within Joomla are not yet ready.

Fabrik is one of those applications, if fact a significant 'Joomla Custom Website Application Builder'.

Site refresh Easter 2021

I decided to give the site a bit of a refresh over Easter 2021 and install a new template and some additional functions. One of the things I didn't like about the old site was the delay in text appearing which probably meant some people left before the content appeared. This has been disabled now.