Tea and Cake lots of.....

It was a weekend of tea and cake... Saturday we had visitors who arrived armed with yummy cake and I baked scones so it was a bit of a cake fest... and then Sunday brought more visitors with more cake ... which necessitated a long walk to earn the sugar overload....

lone tree with moon in shot...

We had a fabulous walk taken from a friends Oxfam book find ''100 great walks in the UK ''- or something like that - it was pretty amazing to find such a pleasant varied and quiet peaceful walk just minutes away from Newton Aycliffe and Darlington. The day was a glorious fresh sunny February day hardly a cloud in a fantastic blue sky, and we wandered across fields and through woods. We had a sandwich and cake picnic, sat in the sun by a deserted barn from which we watched a bard owl swoop across the landscape. We meandered back alongside the river and back into Barmpton village, an excellent 8 mile circular walk. Definitely earned cake....

into the wilderness..

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Scotland part 2

The second half of the week continued in much the same vein. We had one rainy afternoon which was actually quite nice to be holed up in the house with the rain lashing the windows. It probably wasn't quite so nice for the two visitors that came on their bikes but they're tough cookies - and its only water- but I did feel sorry for them having to cycle six miles back down the track in the wind and rain, but given Scotland, it wasn't as bad as it could be.

Funchal

So after three days at sea we finally hit Funchal in Madeira. An escape from the ship, and I have to say it was very pleasant indeed. First of all the weather is really splendid. Especially when you know that everybody else in the UK is suffering grim storms and vile winds.. Over here it is between 22 and 25 degrees is really quite warm. Funchal is a pretty city. It's built on a hill it with lots of lovely white houses with stunning red roofs. In order to get the best of it we walked along the sea front until we got to the cable car and we took it up the hill. It was a really good ride much longer than we imagined and it's quite weird because it goes right through the town - completely over everybody's house... So not only do you get a lovely vista of the bay but you can view the beautiful rooftops and get to look in everybody's gardens and to look at their picnic sets.. clean washing nice plants... scratty backyards.... We got off th

ROCKS - in which I share the Hopetoun and Esperance pictures....

I'm about to post a load of pictures of rocks... look away if you are not interested...There are more but its faffy making them smaller to upload so I'm doing it a bit at a time... Enjoy mount Barren rocks on summit Mount Barren Views... Cave Point - unreachable cave Small reachable Cave scree to unreachable cave Frenchmans Peak Cave Frenchmans peak View Frenchmans Peak Summit Esperance Headland Boulders Esperance Headland with fisherman for scale Eperance other headland cave Esperance other headland...

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