'A good traveller has no fixed plans.' Tao Te Chiang
Madrid is a cosmopolitan capital, a seat of empire, replete with boulevards, fountains, museums, palaces - and of course more cathedrals and churches per square mile than the British have pubs. It is also a city of narrow, crooked streets, bars, restaurants, whole stores dedicated to jamon, turron and other delicacies and treats, a city [...]
A traveller visiting Spain for the first - or second - time is spoiled for choice. From Madrid, where we spent four days, and could easily have spent more, Rob and I took the high-speed train south, to Sevilla, where we picked up a car and drove on to Ronda and the pueblos blancos. From [...]
From photographs of birds, taken during my recent field trip to the Marievale Bird Sanctuary, this blog will see a change of scene, to our travels in Spain - but only when we are back, Rob and I, towards the end of September, from Andalucia and Madrid. Meanwhile here is one image - a blacksmith [...]
This Pied Kingfisher was hard at work when I came across him, rising from a bed of reeds, hovering, swivelling his head this way and that, wings beating madly as he looked for his dinner. I took a million photographs, the first lot using a fast shutter speed to freeze the motion, and then a [...]
