Pics like these are a big reason programs like Midsomer Murders, Endeavour, Grantchester & Father Brown have captured much of my weekend TV time..keep the pics & history/commentary coming!!..

PS: Walkers should watch how they go & pick up sticks again next weekend!!..

10 years ago today: Zubiri to Pamplona (20 km)

Thunder1 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:52 pm Pics like these are a big reason programs like Midsomer Murders, Endeavour, Grantchester & Father Brown have captured much of my weekend TV time..

The police drama happy valley was filmed local to where I live.

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10 years ago today: Pamplona to Puente la Reina (24 km)

Some pics for this morning 13 mike walk round Sowerby (pronounced Sore-bee)

^^Great pics all!!..thought I'd add pics from my daily walk in the neighborhood(near Dripping Springs, Tx.) w/ the pups..so this morning, I started at.. Winston & Walter both point the way down the front yard path way.. Now, we're taking a look back at the casa & then starting down the street of a cove directly across our street.. At the end of the cove, a trail begins that encircles our sub-division..it's sort of a poor man's Barton Springs trail.. We now leave the cove & begin our journey down the trail.. After a few short minutes, we come to the proverbial 'fork in the road'..this morning, we decide to take the left fork.. After a few minutes, we come across some abandoned sheds that were used to maintain the property & cattle that once called this area home..this whole area had at one time been a thriving ranch until rising property prices, coupled w/ changes in the economy, pushed people out of Austin that were looking for more affordable housing.. Here's a pic a little bit later of some of our sub-division.. Now we start back home.. And finally, the pups & I cross the street & we're back home again!!..

^^^^ Great photos of where you live.

Although the photos I take seem normal to me, I’m well aware they can seem like a different planet to those who live in other parts of the world.

Your pictures taken in Texas are somewhere I’ve never been, and if I’m honest, somewhere I’m never likely to go. However they are fascinating to look at. I can almost hear the rattlesnakes and feel the sweat trickling down my neck just looking at them.

I was unable to go, but my wife and son recently went to the Lake Tahoe region about 3+ hours away (driving) from where we live. My wife took these pics on a hike:

iain wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:58 pm ^^^^ Great photos of where you live.

Although the photos I take seem normal to me, I’m well aware they can seem like a different planet to those who live in other parts of the world.

Your pictures taken in Texas are somewhere I’ve never been, and if I’m honest, somewhere I’m never likely to go. However they are fascinating to look at. I can almost hear the rattlesnakes and feel the sweat trickling down my neck just looking at them.

We need to visit the UK at some point...what seems normal to you folks is really something quite extraordinary..

Bident wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 6:35 pm I was unable to go, but my wife and son recently went to the Lake Tahoe region about 3+ hours away (driving) from where we live. My wife took these pics on a hike:
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We've been there(even mountain biked the area!!)..hard to match that kind of beauty on this side of the pond!!..

Thunder1 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 6:41 pm

Bident wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 6:35 pm I was unable to go, but my wife and son recently went to the Lake Tahoe region about 3+ hours away (driving) from where we live. My wife took these pics on a hike:
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We've been there(even mountain biked the area!!)..hard to match that kind of beauty on this side of the pond!!..

It really is a beautiful place. We used to go once or twice a year but the pandemic shut that down. This was the first trip in a long while.

^^^I'll second that. Some cracking pictures!

Bident wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 6:35 pm I was unable to go, but my wife and son recently went to the Lake Tahoe region about 3+ hours away (driving) from where we live. My wife took these pics on a hike:
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Those bring back memories. When I lived in the Bay Area we used to go up to Tahoe often; Homewood on the west side and down to Emerald Bay in summer and Squaw for skiing in winter.

A beautiful area.