Sunday, July 3, 2011

Ardeche 2011

Ardeche ,Lyon and the North June 2011
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A long long straight road :-)

The view from the Ardeche house kitchen window.

Base
Base
Bears on the water
Dinner with Me,Sue,Maud and Chris



Three pictures above are the route to the Baume de la Chabannes a long walk in 38C heat.





 Pictures above on the springs walk near Chadouillet.In the above I look hot because I was it was 39C.


Goule de Sauvas
some were near the Baume du Pêcher above and below

Grotte de Font Vive

Cycling above and below.


Chris
Chris (eldest son) and me
My Ranger I think of it as long range gear transporter, Sue tells me it is a toy as I bought it just for caving and cycling trips :-)

Péronne



World War one museum below.

Sue
Shots above of Péronne the museum is well worth visiting http://www.greatwar.co.uk/somme/museum-historial-peronne.htm

The Thiepval Memorial, the Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, bears the names of more than 72,000 men who died in the Somme sector before 20 March 1918 and have no known grave. A visit we felt we needed to make it was a warm sunny day but so sad seeing all the names of those who died so young all the children left never knowing their fathers.In another cemetery we visited near by the graves of some as young 18 ....

Until the next time

Sunday, May 29, 2011

Iceland

 Iceland 2011


 
Sue birthday trip and she said Iceland would be good. So of we went we had  a good trip to Iceland lots to see and even an erupting volcano that closed the airport for a while although we were not affected by this.

Living room of the apartment
 
Hall way
Hallgrímskirkja,
Sue and friend 
 Reykjavik sky line

 Reykjavik at midnight


Hydrothermal power plant



Snow tyres at the ready

The train waiting at Reykjavik platform one has been delayed for the last fifty years :-)
 Sue at the Kerið crater
Kerið
Geysers :-)







 Gullfoss


Silfra crack, Thingvellir Lake, National Park Thingvellir, Iceland 
pictures below









Reykjavik skyline


Whales out there some where?
Me Whale watching


Andrew