Whether the weather

The road to the ferry outside our bedroom window! Just had a fab day on Iona. Blown to bits, sunshine, rain, wind, hail, blue skies, black skies. Returned on the last ferry bobbing up and down in the waves!! Magic.
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Tuck in

And this was our dinner on night one, courtesy of Audrey!!!
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The return of the six

Wahoooo . . . Here we are back off on another adventure to Mull

with beasties barring our way

But the incredible six make it - a wilderness of peace as night sets in

And if you wonder what I am on about, the adventure started this time last year . . . Mull 2012

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spirit in the sky

Drama in the Sheffield skies tonight as sunset drew in

the sun was shining on the sea

Memory lane meander on Moreton Shore yesterday as evening fell (this one's for you Nancy!)

and the shoreline was littered with these little chaps

and hard not to crunch in all the razor clam shells

so what I want to know please is what are the little round 'things'?  They felt heavier than you'd expect so there was something lurking inside.

Funny, when I was little this beach was littered with jellyfish and I don't remember so  many amazing shells.

Maybe the jellyfish had 'eaten every one' . . .

(The Walrus and the Carpenter - I used to love that!!)

and ending with my childhood bedroom window view towards that very same shore

many happy returns

It's wonderful what you can cram into just 2 days in London

Flat whites by our resident expert - the birthday girl no less

Pressies to open

Ooooo

Fab lunch at the amazing Rochelle Canteen in deepeest Shoreditch

after getting in through the secret door that is

Leg stretch around Hoxton

 bit of Sheffield here from Phlegm

new Rachel Whiteread exhibition at the Gagosian

old school theatre

but who dunnit???  we're not telling . . . .

and finally to the toppermost of the city - all for free!!

peering down on the British Museum

 Tower Bridge

 and the Post Office Tower

and the next day, to wake us up - super breaky and fab coffee at the Pavillion Cafe, Victoria Park

followed by the wonderful Sew Amazing in Bow for the grand sewing machine purchase

 so amazing indeed!!

and the end of a perfect stay

Thanks for sharing your birthday Jess!!
Many happy returns X X X

up the Orinoco

Great expedition last Saturday following the footsteps of Alexander von Humboldt with a few other intrepid travellers, from La Corunna to Venezuela by way of Tenerife, Cuba and Ecclesall Road

shades of sky

shadows

 ships prows

Tenerife in a gentle breeze

Fellow explorers

 Heights to scale

Canyons to explore

 barriers along the way

 dead ends

 strange beasts to chart

skies to die for

 eyes of storms

 signs of times

the ever present water

eerie shadows

ancient tombs

 equitorial climes

Epic day
 
Pity missed the performance at Bank Street Arts - Humboldt ventures in the Equinoctial Regions but there's an exhibition of the expedition on until 21 April. And you can also catch the sound recording from the performance from this webpage