Milebrook House Hotel
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Brecon Beacons Day Walk
Whenever I fix up a date for one of the Club's day walks, it rains. Usually this means cancelling the whole trip, or moving it to another day, but this time the weather and its forecasters were determined to give us a soaking. On Thursday, the forecast said rain all day Sunday so I thought I'd be able to call it off with a clear consience. But by Friday evening, the forecast was saying that the rain and high winds would be over by Sunday breakfast time and the rest of the day would turn ...
Just a map pin
Gracia, Sant Roc, Sants, Santa Tecla, La Merce – apparently 5 Catalan festivals weren't enough for us this year. We usually go away for my birthday for a few days and this year Julie found a Festa Major in the small town of Altafulla, on the coast just north east of Tarragona with castellers on my birth date. A chance to see a new part of Catalunya and do some birding too. Read ...
Hail to the Bunting
... Eh?") but with the approaching blackness we didn't dawdle. When it hit, it was hail. Lots of it, travelling almost horizontally. For a few minutes it felt like having gravel thrown at you continually. It wasn''t much consolation that it was behind us and it was nothing like as vile as the walk back from the North Wales Snow Bunting site at the start of the year. We kept going.
Eventually it turned to rain. And then it stopped. And then it started again. And ...
Roman City on Our Doorstep
Years ago, I remember wandering among the Roman ruins, stumbling across a mosaic floor or two. Now Wroxeter (originally Viriconium) is a full-blown Historical Site, with a shop - and you have to pay to see it!
The city was built to house a Roman army ...
Some more sea-watching
... what we did see was about the best we could manage. It was still pleasant, though.
The drive home is a long one and the bit between Sheringham and King's Lynn is the slowest part so we thought we'd break it up by heading back to Hunstanton for something to eat. It was still daylight and quite mild and when we got to Sheringham we bought some fish and chips and took them to the car park where I'd been watching migration from earlier. ...
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