‘If you cross the bridge you are in Hungary’ was all the book had said. There was no reference to the memorial or that for many in 1956 it was a bridge to freedom. The book in question was no travel guide of the normal kind but ‘Where to watch birds: World Cities’.
April/May finds my neighbourhood garlanded in Wisteria. There are so many walls and houses where the Wisteria’ mauve flowers drip down and offer up their bounty to the bees. But may favourite is a house on Hyde vale.
Two weeks ago a very precious Macbook came to watery end in the Somerset town of Midsomer. It’s titanium covered in slithering mud. The guilty party was none other than myself.
Lanzarote is dry and it’s flora has to cope with this desert like climate. However each morning I visited el Mojon and the little valley a thin layer of mist hung above the fields. The mositure thus created must help sustain both the plants and the agriculttural land. These cobwebs dripping in dew brought alive [...]
These pictures give a feel of the space and openess of the Famarra Plain, Lanzarote where I saw some of the best birds on the Island.
The stunning West coast of Lanzarote is less prone to the sun and sand resorts. Wilder and less developed the Atlantic rolls in with big waves crashing against the black volcanic rocks. Beautiful.
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