Honister Slate Mine

For my annual Somerset holiday, I stayed again in 2022 at Lookout Lodge in East Harptree, Northeast Somerset, on the north facing slope of the Mendips, looking out towards Chew Valley Lake. The holiday accommodation is on the same site as the Viewing Platform. This was the last remaining WW2 cabin existing in the UK…

I went on my annual holiday to my native Somerset in August when Covid restrictions were somewhat relaxed, here are some images from it. First Bristol Suspension Bridge, which I had never seen up close before.  On a rainy Wednesday in the city of Wells, I was surprised that they allowed dogs inside Wells Cathedral…

On my first full day in Slovenia, Vlado took me to see the Ski slopes as Planica. We then went to see the Bled Castle, which overlooks Bled Lake.  We each had a helping of the lovely Bled Cream Cake in the castle café.  Vlado drove South to the spectacular Postojna caves from which I…

On day three we visited the La Mare Vineyard La Mare Wine Estate in the parish of St Mary at the north of the island.  It is set in the peaceful grounds of a traditional 18th-century Jersey granite farmhouse and covers 25-acres.  Our guide, Bob, showed us the rows of vines and told us that…

The weather was lovely in the morning and I spent it in Pitlochry, walking do the River Tummel and viewing the Dam and Salmon Ladder.  The dam is part of the Tummel hydro-electric power scheme, which is an interconnected network of dams, power stations, aqueducts and electric power transmission.  I took the photo of the…

I went on a Cairngorm Travel coach holiday based in the Duke of Gordon hotel, Kingussie with Leyland u3a. There were thirty-seven of members on the Kingussie holiday so the coach was allocated just to our group. For both outward and return journeys we stopped at Moffat for lunch with an additional stop at the…