Having driven up the giant Col du Tourmalet yesterday, we thought we’d try another of the Tour de France cols, the Col d’Aspin. The most important quality an organizer of Le Tour can possess is that he or she be…
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Col d’Aspin
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: Bagnere-de-Bigorre, Col d'Aspin, dragonflies, France, nature, odonata, Payrolle, photography, travel, wildlife
Col du Tourmalet
When we were camped in Fanjeaux last week, we visited one of this year’s Tour de France mountain top finishes, the Plateau de Beille, and very pretty it was, too. Now we’ve moved west we are in the high Pyrenees…
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: Cirque de Gavarnie, Col du Tourmalet, France, Lourdes, photography, travel
To the Mountains
In our experience, you can’t plan a trip to the mountains (in Europe, at least). We are not beach people, we are much more at home in the countryside and there is no more majestic countryside than mountains. The trouble…
The Canal du Midi
One of the attractions for us here at the Fanjeaux campsite is that it is run by the friendliest, most welcoming French family we’ve ever met. A regular visitor soon feels like a personal friend. The aspect that makes it…
Plateau de Beille
Francine and I have become fans of the Tour de France. I think one of the main reasons is that, after a 6-ish-week trip around France in June and early July, the three weeks of Le Tour when back at…
Satan’s Little Disciples
I spotted farmer Luc down cleaning les sanitaires on Wednesday so I went for short natter, largely as an opportunity to voice my concerns about the effect the intensive fish farming was having on the wildlife of his site, in…
Emerald Sunset
Amongst the poor showing of dragonflies remaining on farmer Luc’s lake this September is the Willow Emerald (Lestes viridis). Willow Emeralds are interesting critters in that they do not oviposit in water. Rather, they lay their eggs in the thinner,…
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: damselflies, dragonflies, Fanjeaux, France, nature, odonata, photography, travel, wildlife
Red Letter Day
Well, pink actually, but I need some poetic license. 😀 During our June trip here, Francine spotted an unusual looking dragonfly; unusual in that it was the shape of a Scarlet Darter (Crocothemis erythrea) but t appeared to be pink…
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: damselflies, dragonflies, France, nature, odonata, photography, travel, wildlife
Satan in Heaven
We have arrived back at the site that I tend to refer to as our slice of heaven the sheep farm at Fanjeaux. What made it so heavenly for me? Well, it is a small site of just 25 very…
Posted in 2011 Autumn Tagged with: birds, damselflies, dragonflies, Fanjeaux, France, nature, odonata, travel, wildlife
Crêpie Birthday
Our main reason for meeting our friends, Mike & Linda, in this neck of the woods was for a double birthday celebration. Francine has become very fond of a sunny seafood lunch overlooking our favourite harbour in Marseillan. As it…
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