Old Boar Quarry
A walk from Padstow to Stepper Point Quarry.
War Memorial.
Across to Hawker's Cove.
Stepper Point from the Quarry.
The bog garden at the south edge of the quarry.
Hawker's Cove as the tide drops.
Waun Fach & Grwyne Fawr Loop
Up early for the Bath Spa express.
And a day in the hills with the gents.
Someone had the same boot trouble as I did on Snowdon.
The views of wide, open, vistas, were none too shabby.
Sheep, mice, but not the advertised Lamagaboogler.
But we may have missed one while quaffing the champers.
Dinner, and a pint or four, at the Priory in Llanthony.
Most lovely, thanks chaps.
New Milton Dog Walk Views
Views from excursions of the early morning kind with Mr Special and Pip...
There were crack-of-dawn swimmers...
...and evening flyers.
The boys were best behaved.
Even Charlie. (Who didn't bite my finger.)
Milton Lunch
A spot of lunch in Milton (new) to say thank you for looking after Mr Special and Sir Ewok while we were taking in the sights, and as a little well done celebration
Bunkfest 2022
Band of Hope followed by Fleur Stevenson (with Maff and Drew) at Le Clos for the last evening of Bunkfest. Tight.
No lanterns this time.
Montmartre
Montmartre. Where we discover the boy's culture¹ limit.
And yes, it was just as good as the last time
Footnotes:
- The editor reprimanded me. I think you mean "the culture expressed by Impressionism, Symbolism, Art Nouveau, Neo-Impressionism, Divisionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Art Deco and Abstract art movements that evolved in Paris" (to paraphrase from wikipedia) rather than culture per se².
- Actually, they didn't use the phrase per se, but you get the drift.
Eiffel
Originally the tower had a permit to stand for 20 years. It was to be dismantled in 1909, that would have been five years before construction of Sacré-Cœur had completed.
Water lilies: Better in colour?
The tour guide really impressed the boys with his knowledge of the construction of the panels (each panel mounted on casters so that Claude could move them around in his purpose-built studio while painting, from a combination of smaller-scale sketches and his memory). If you look closely you can spot the seams.
Soon there was a whole procession penguin shuffling around the gallery, everyone looking closely for the joints. Or perhaps everyone was just going that way anyway.
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