Author Archives: Martin

A couple of nights overlooking Caerfai Bay near St Davids. We also cycled to Abereiddy beach, a few miles up the coast, and the previously-undiscovered (by us) “Blue Lagoon”.

last year we took our cycles to Bruges for one of the wettest weeks of the Summer (pictures HERE). We thought we’d try again, but, just in case, took the car (via Dunkirk) and stayed in a hotel this time. We … Continue reading →

We walked up the Brecon Hills from Abergavenny. Fantastic scenery, from the green valleys and woods below to the more barren and very windy peak.

We had a crab craving, so went to Beer, on the Devon coast for lunch in a pub. Then we walked to Branscombe for tea and cake. It’s hard, retirement.

A pleasant, and flat, cycle along this canal in Somerset, with the added interest of (to scale) representations of the planets of the solar system along the way. This is Uranus, “A Giant Ball Of Frozen Noxious Gasses With Strange … Continue reading →

Wendy and Graham visiting, so had a walk among the bluebells and boats(?) in Leigh Woods on the south of the Avon Gorge.

Fabulous Devon gardens, created over twenty years or so by Alasdair Forbes. These gardens are designed following a Greek myth theme. Very interesting to be taken around by historian Alastair himself.

A few days staying in a pub in Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire.

We were in Wiltshire and cycled past the house where Sally was born!

There was a partial solar eclipse on the 20th March. I risked my camera by taking some photos. It seems to have survived. Or, if you don’t have a camera, you can use a collander: