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29/09/2018 – Visit to Richmond Park, London

  • Posted on 10/10/2018
  • /Under Deer, Nature and Wildlife, Richmond Park
Saturday 29th September saw the annual pilgrimage to Richmond Park to photograph Red Deer during the Rutting season. It is a place well worth visiting and as I’ve been asked previously for advise on what I have found I thought I would put a quick guide together on where I...Read more

20/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 11 (Wednesday) – Rest Day

  • Posted on 23/09/2017
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Today was a day of rest after the last busy few days. So couple of quick photos from exploring our new campsite. And of course this one of Helen feeding a campsite cat.Read more

19/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 10 (Tuesday) – Sateano to Figline Valdarno

  • Posted on 23/09/2017
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Change of location today moving from Sateano to our new site at Figline Valdarno. Started of with a drive around the northern part of the Val d’Orcia taking in the village of Pienza. Also took numerous detours in search of sone landscape images such as this one. It was then...Read more

18/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 9 (Monday) – Rome

  • Posted on 22/09/2017
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Early start for the 0710 train to Rome giving a early arrival to enable a full days sightseeing. First stop for the day was the Vatican City.Museums, which involved a lengthy queue of 2 hours. Helen was heard to say to one of the “Jump the Queue” salesmen “It’s ok...Read more

17/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 8 (Sunday) – South Tuscany

  • Posted on 22/09/2017
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A trip to the South/Sourh West area of our base for today. We started with a drive along the southern edge of the Val d’Orcia where as we left this area it was noted that the land became greener and more covered in forests. Our first place of interest tbat...Read more

16/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 7 (Saturday) – Rest Day

  • Posted on 20/09/2017
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Well not much happened today,it was a day of rest with reading and copious amounts of coffee being consumed. A short walk was taken around tbe town of Sarteano was taken although not to much to seeRead more

15/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 6 (Friday) – Assisi

  • Posted on 20/09/2017
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Today we went on a trip to Assisi which is outside the Tuscany region and located in Umbria. The route took us along the south shore of lake “Lago Trasimeno”. (sorry forgot to take photos on phone) through Perugia to Assisi which is about 50 miles from the campsite. Assisi...Read more

14/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 5 (Thursday) – Val d’Orcia

  • Posted on 19/09/2017
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Today we took a drive around the designated UNESCO heritage area of Val d’Orcia this is a wonderful place for landscape images although not necessary at this time of year. We took a circular drive from our campsite taking in the village of Bagno Vignoni, this was a village with...Read more

13/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 4 (Wednesday) – Pisa to Sarteano

  • Posted on 19/09/2017
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Started the day with another quick visit to the Leaning Tower for some final photos. We then made our way to Pisa Airport to collect a hire car.for our journey down to the southern Tuscany area. A leisurely drive down was taken with a stop at Volterra for lunch. Volterra...Read more

12/09/2017 – The Italian Job – Day 3 (Tuesday) – Cinque Terre

  • Posted on 19/09/2017
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Todays adventure to the Cinque Terre coast/National Park started with a train journey from Pisa to La Spezia where we changed to a train thst runs along the coast. The mzin feature of the Cinque Terre coast are the five villages which are from south to north as follows; Riomaggiore,...Read more
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