Here's the usual (but late) update on our summer travels in the UK...
After arriving back from the Balkans in mid-July we`ve been based at our UK home, taking a couple of trips on our coastal tour of the UK. At the current rate of progress we should be around 110 by the time we complete it; hope the car will last that long.
I'm writing this in our Nerja base and it's later than usual because we've been in the UK for longer than expected. At least we made it out for Año Neuvo after a great Christmas in the UK.
The hot sun and cooler winter air often give us a chance to see the Moroccan Atlas Mountains from our terrace out here as the light is refracted by the air density changes acting as a lens; this year was excellent for this phenomenon. It always gives us a thrill and reminds us of our trip across the Tizi n'Tichka Pass in our caravan in 2011.
Africa!..from our terrace:
On the horizon
and in close up
..and, of course, it's back to wonderful walking.
So what about our UK coastal tour?
Here are a few images as we visited Cambridge (OK I know it's not quite on the coast) and sauntered around the bits of the Kent coast we haven't previously completed:
Name that Cambridge Bridge..
Wish I could say it was warm and sunny..
Loafing about in Sandwich:
Sandwich Butchery Surgery!!
Eastbourne Upmarket Band Stand
Ramsgate looking pretty
They actually sailed his model viking ship - Cliffsend [info]
Margate's dubiously decorated seafront
Polegate Windmill & Museum
Back home there was the opportunity for a shot of December's supermoon:
So that's about it for our travels in 2017.
Can't go without mentioning our visit to our local Chelmsford Cathedral to see our eldest receive her Masters in Human Resources which was uplifting. Also uplifting in a different sense was our drive into London to help our youngest move into a new house share - which has turned out very well. To us, the cost of living here is prohibitive with high rents and increasingly high prices. Can't help thinking that our generation had the best of it.
Need to work out some travelling plans for 2018....
