Some years ago I wrote down a story that my husband dreamed, when he was 9 or 10 years old, which seems to fit the theme for the upcoming 50th festival of trees: through a child’s eyes so I thought I would re-post it. The woodcutter’s tale Once upon a time there was a village [...]
At the beginning of July we spent a week in Provence. The mere mention of Provence conjures up images of fields of sunflowers and lavender and of long lazy lunches taken in the shade of a huge tree in a village square….. I took so many photos during the course of the week that I [...]
At the beginning of May we went for a whistle stop tour of south western Turkey with a couple of friends who were visiting. First we drove to Efes (Ephesus), an early Roman settlement. We parked at the top car park which meant we had a downhill walk through the site which was full of [...]
Our drive from Pamukkale to Cıralı took us over an upland plateau where we saw patches of white opium poppies (no photos unfortunately) which were just coming into flower – I think we were a couple of days too early to see them in full bloom – although we saw many more in fuller flower [...]
We breakfasted under the ivy, again a typical Turkish breakfast of tomatoes, olives, rocket, cheese, a boiled egg and bread and jam, and finally set off at 10.30. There was masses of yellow broom in flower along our route as well as pomegranate trees in flower, yellow prickly pears and blood red poppies. It is [...]
Kamel had organised a private boat hire for us as we didnd’t want to be part of a large tour with a regimented timetable. Ramazan, the captain of our boat, came to collect us at 9.45 and we followed him down to the harbour. He took us first to the mud baths which are reputed [...]
