We’ve recently returned from a holiday in France. We spent 10 days at private home in a small town, Baraqueville in the Département of Aveyron. Aveyron is the 5th largest départment in France in terms of area (8,735 km2 (3,373 sq mi)) but is not heavily populated, with approximately 278,000 inhabitants. It’s largest city and préfecture is Rodez. Although…
Category: Holidays
Reykjavik
The first stop on our trip to France was Iceland, where we landed at Keflavik, the country’s major airport, 45 minutes from its capital city, Reykjavik. Reykjavik is a small city of 120,000 inhabitants and by far the largest community in Iceland, population 335,000. Reykjavik is located at latitude 64 deg N, about the same as…
Happy New Year 2017
It’s 2017! I hope you enjoyed New Year’s Eve as much as we did and when you awoke this morning, I hope you still feel the same way! We spent a quiet evening at home with our daughter Jaime, son-in-law Andrew and our two grandsons, Fynn and Wyatt. The boys are still a little young to…
Re-cycled
From time to time, I look back through my photo archives, often seeking good pictures I may have overlooked earlier when selecting for printing or publishing in the blog. I’m always a little surprised to come across photographs that apparently did not appeal to me earlier, but look better to me now. I recently found…
Scotland Favourites II
My final selection of photographs from Scotland. I begin with this picture taken on the last day of our holiday on our return to Edinburgh. It was a cool, rainy day; fortunately one of the few we experienced while in Scotland. I was searching a good vantage point to photograph the Forth Bridge. I found a…