After yesterday’s scare with our engine-shaped warning light in the car, today when I started the car all appeared to be normal. I’m going to be nervous for some time. As this is our first visit in the midst of…
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Pyrenees Crossing
Today was always going to prove interesting because we would be travelling through a large chunk of Spain for the first time. As it turned out, it proved a lot more interesting than expected. We’d chosen our routes to and…
Posted in 2013 France and Spain
Broken Bordeaux
After a day recuperating in the Marais Poitevin with Mike, today we were on the road again heading for the Pyrenees. Our target was a little walled town called Navarrenx towards the western end of the mountain chain. We set…
Posted in 2013 France and Spain
Marshian Walk
We are no strangers to the Marais Poitevin since it one of our regular stopping points in France, both to visit friends and to hunt dragonflies. It’s a flat, rural landscape perfect for exploring on bicycles which we normally have…
Posted in 2013 France and Spain
Circulation Difficile
And now for something completely different. I had originally booked our usual ferry to La Belle France for June, plus the normal week or two either side. However, my subsequent deciding to stick around in the UK to get a…
Posted in 2013 France and Spain
Waiting for the Light
Living with a landscape photographer presents a special set of problems. The two times of day in which they are most interested are sunrise and sunset. The problem with photographing sunrise is, of course, that one’s landscape photographer, and therefore…
Posted in 2013 Norfolk
Assault on the Nostrils
I’m frequently told that flower photography does not require strong sun but benefits from the diffused lighting and lack of shadows resulting what real old Kodak 35mm or 120 roll film boxes used to call cloudy bright. Well, today was…
Posted in 2013 Norfolk
Developing a Twitch
July 1st and our first full day installed at Sandringham. Yesterday’s spell of summer sun is now over and the forecast for the rest of the week is mainly for cloud cover, with some rain, though there is a suggestion…
Posted in 2013 Norfolk
Saved by the Soberano
The last day of June and time to leave the Caravan Club site at Ludham Bridge in East Norfolk to head over to Sandringham estate in West Norfolk for the opposition’s (Camping and Caravanning Club) site. There was no rush;…
Posted in 2013 Norfolk
A Ride before Rain
I can’t help but notice that our weather forecasts involving the arrival of rain seem to be more accurate than those involving any suggestion of sun. Perhaps in an effort to boost morale, our forecasters have been speaking of sunny…
Posted in 2013 Norfolk
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