After four nights in La Brenne, we made a longish run south to Millau to go “ooh, ah” at its justly famous viaduct. Whenever I look at it I can’t help but think, “how on earth did they build that”…
Author: John Curd
France 2011, Autumn – La Crau
Tagged with: birds, damselflies, dragonflies, France, nature, Odonata, photography, travel, wildlife
France 2011, Autumn – La Brenne
It’s a bit difficult writing what was supposed to be a travel blog when you can’t do it “live” due to insurance risks. It has to be done after the fact. Isn’t modern life a wonderful thing? Together with this…
Long Overdue Update
I must have been having too much fun over the summer because I just realized that it’s been a long time since I wrote anything about my recovery from my radical prostatectomy. My last entry seems to have been April…
Variable Weather
The weather forecast spoke of sunny spells breaking out on Sunday and, as one of the things on my “to do” list this Odonata season was “visit Wicken Fen”, down came the Mazda’s roof and off we sped. The cloud…
Replacement New Toy
Recently I returned a new toy, specifically a Canon EOS 7D camera body + Canon L series 70-300mm lens, to Warehouse Express because I wasn’t entirely happy with the camera’s performance compared to my existing EOS 40D. I was beyond…
Extending the Vocab.
More often than not, when we come back from a trip that had a sniff of wildlife, we have several unidentified critters with which we need help. Our spring trip to La Belle France was no exception. Here is where…
New Forest, New Friends
What would a retired couple, a retired couple with a dislike of the noise emanating from children, I might add, be doing visiting the otherwise delightful New Forest in the middle of August, I hear you say? Very good question!…
Cameras by Microsoft?
Yesterday, in some unexpected intermittent sunshine, we decided to go and visit a new dragonfly location relatively close to home, Flitton Moor in Bedfordshire. It doesn’t look much like a moor but what the hell, that’s its name. There was…
New Toy Returned
Before we went to France for spring, I had managed to convince myself that I really would like a new camera, the Canon EOS 7D. It’s main appealing advantages over my current Canon EOS 40D were: 18 Megapixels (as opposed…
Tagged with: photography
New Prunes
It takes a long time to sort through pictures from a trip, especially when it was a longer one than normal. Still, progress has been made and the dross has been discarded. Now we just have to merge our new…
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