France has not enjoyed a particularly settled May. The disturbed weather pattern had continued for our journey thus far. Having invested in an Aujour d’hui newspaper for the weather forecasts, we had been pleased to see that today held the…
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La Brenne Again
En Route to our favourite dairy sheep farm campsite at Fanjeaux, we planned to spend a few days in one of France’s wonderful wildlife habitats, La Brenne. We hitched up and hit the road soon after 09:00, deciding to follow…
Posted in 2018 France
Guillaume Goes to France
Mercifully, hitching up Guillaume this morning went much more smoothly than had unhitching him yesterday afternoon. We were off and heading for the Newhaven ferry port by 06:30. It was a 30-mimute run and we arrived to join a few…
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Guillaume Goes to Brighton
After a three year absence, we are finally bound for France once again . We had planned to go in September 2017 but that didn’t work out. Now we are finally using that ferry booking, rescheduled, of course. We are…
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Three New Species
For our April 2018 count, that is. On a pleasant Saturday with a little cloud cover that appeared to be clearing, we headed back to my favourite close spot for dragonflies, the Marjal de Pego-Oliva.Francine had seen a new spot…
Posted in 2018-04 Spain
Trithemis kirbyi at Jalon
This is just a brief note to log the appearance of another species. We were bound for a long lunch with friends starting at 13:00, so there was little to be done beforehand. We did, however, pop down into Jalon…
Posted in 2018-04 Spain
Surprise Serapia
Francine and I popped in to Calpe to see how the Las Salinas lagoon might be doing. There’s been quite a bit of development going on around it and the ground seems to be suffering, partly from being churned up…
Posted in 2018-04 Spain
El Cau
El Cau is one of the mountains siding our Spanish valley. I don’t really know the pronunciation but given the way this walk began, El Cow would be appropriate; it started heading upwards immediately and that’s the way it continued.…
Posted in 2018-04 Spain
A Few Bernia Orchids
We had a quick excursion up to the Bernia basecamp which is another one of Francine’s orchid hunting grounds. Cutting a longer story short, our visit was also relatively curtailed because there really wasn’t as much as we had come…
Posted in 2018-04 Spain
Els Arcs Nature
During our winter trip to Spain, my right leg suffered from what I believe was an attack of housemaid’s knee. Being an overuse injury, this was likely caused by an over-zealous return to walking in the mountains. A calmer approach…
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