Another beautiful day dawned and, after Guillaume and I arose in an unhurried fashion, I pedalled off into Ludham to the local shop to secure a few more cans of beer and some nibbles during their Sunday morning opening hours.…
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Back to Aldferfen
My favourite spot from our first trip to Norfolk, back in June this year, was undoubtedly Alderfen. I had hoped that I would arrive and be installed in time to revisit it yesterday afternoon but that was not to be.…
Posted in 2013 Norfolk 2 Tagged with: dragonflies, England, Norfolk. nature, odonata, travel, wildlife
Back to Norfolk
For a few years following my father’s retirement, my parents lived in Norfolk. They moved to the strangely named village, historically two villages, of Repps with Bastwick, as seen on the modern road sign, or, as can still be seen…
Posted in 2013 Norfolk 2
Tuscany Retrospective: Chianti
For the second of our two back-to-back walking tours in Tuscany, we were off to the Chianti wine region. Our first tour leader, Ben, drove us back to Pisa airport, along with our companions that were flying out, to meet…
Posted in 2013 Italy
Tuscany Retrospective: The Garfagnana
An Italian “gn” is like a Spanish “ñ” [enya]; so, this is pronounced “Garfanyana”. Francine likes to be somewhere special for her birthday. That was particularly true this year, it being a special birthday. Enough said! After a little effort…
Posted in 2013 Italy
Spanish Correction
I’m a good one for this: when I’m fortunate enough to bump into a new dragonfly species, I concentrate most framing and focusing whilst tending glibly to assume that any similar looking dragonfly in my viewfinder is another one of…
Posted in 2013 France and Spain
Last Leg Home
Yesterday, I forgot to mention that Sally Satnav had recovered from her little Pyrenean malfunction; she had lost satellites overnight, having been turned off, and re-acquired satellites again yesterday morning. All the way to Chartres, she was plotting our little…
Posted in 2013 France and Spain
Lessons Learned
At least, I think so. Today being day 2 our planned 3-day journey home, we set off from Foix at 8:00 AM, our destination for today being Chartres, 440mls/700kms north. 400 miles of our journey today would be on autoroutes…
Posted in 2013 France and Spain
When Technology Fails
Today was day 1 of our 1200mls/1900kms journey back home. Our first target was a motel in Foix ~460mls/740kms away. We forced Chris, Yvonne and Scamp out of bed at 6:30AM and hit the road at 7:00AM. Chris, very sensibly,…
Posted in 2013 France and Spain
Aula Natura de la Marjal de Gandia
As a self-confessed dragonfly obsessive, this was the main target of this trip to Spain. I had made e-contact with a specialist to find out where I might find dragonflies near our Jalon location and he came up with this,…
Posted in 2013 France and Spain
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