Beautiful Santa Fe

Beautiful Santa Fe…

…where instead of hanging baskets of flowers, they hang bunches of dried chillies…

…which probably explains why the slugs look like this.

It’s home to a cathedral dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi…

…but if you’ve read your Willa Cathar, you’ll know that they remember the old gods here.

There are a number…

…of interesting museums…

…but Huw and I plumped for the New Mexico History Museum.

I thought it wove the troubled and contested history of this place pretty well….

…and Billy the Kid had surprising good handwriting.

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Return to Ronda

The last few months have been a bit rough on the health front, so it’s been a delight to be on my travels again. First stop was glorious Ronda, staying in a hotel with it’s own cinema. A fantastic pizza was had… ….Christmas lights were admired… …a sunset revelled in… …but Ronda is all about the gorge (and bullfighting, Hemlingway and Orson Welles)… …and the amazing bridges. And a very poetic carpark.

Corbigny past and present

Itˋs still too damn hot, but I managed a trip out to Corbigny, where there is a lovely toy shop… …interesting mediaeval bits and pieces… …fun shop signs… …a great place to drink coffee and watch the world go by… …suitably mad French cars… …and baffling street furniture… …and a chilling reminder that not that long ago, people like you and me were taken away and annihilated. Remember them, never forget, never again.

Austria at last

In a fit of madness… …I agreed to accompany my Aged Mother on a coach trip to Austria. After two days on the coach… …we have finally arrived <phew>.

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