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Date:: September 7, 2016
Categories:: cycling, Egyptology, England, Wales
Tags:: charity, charity ride, cycle4sepsis, cycling, cyclists, fundraising, Oxford, road trip, sepsis, wales
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Cycle4Sepsis ride hits the streets on Friday

My courageous cousin Liz has returned part-time to her job as an Egyptologist at Oxford University one year after suffering terrible life-changing injuries from Sepsis. It’s great to see Liz reconnecting with Egyptology again … Her determination to live a ‘new normal’ life and return to work has astounded and inspired us all. This weekend we are driving from Oxford to Wales as the support crew to her husband Christoph and other cyclists who are taking part in the nationwide cycle ride to raise funds for the UK Sepsis Trust. Please cheer all the cyclists on, follow on social media #cycle4sepsis and[…]

Date:: August 31, 2016
Categories:: Edward Gordon Gedge, Eileen Ruth Gedge, England, family, germany, history, TRAVELS FROM THE PAST, Uncategorized
Tags:: England, facebook, family, germany, history, nanny, occupation, reunites, war, wing commander, world war two
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Facebook reunites mum with family of war-time German nanny

So here’s a beautiful and moving story I want to share …. It’s not a travel story as such but it’s certainly a story that’s travelled a long way and over a very long time …. Several days ago a lady from Kiel Germany contacted me via Facebook to ask if I was the granddaughter of Wing Commander Edward Gordon Gedge and his wife Eileen – which I am. Her name was Dagmar and she said she was the daughter of my mum’s nanny from more than sixty years ago and had been searching for us. Her mum Cristel cared[…]

Date:: August 29, 2016
Categories:: England, photography
Tags:: black and white photography, competition, diving, England, finalist, monochrome, oyster festival, photography, summer, weekend, whitstable
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Whitstable image shortlisted in Daily Telegraph competition

My black and white image of pier jumpers at the Oyster Festival in picturesque Whitstable was named as a finalist alongside eight other photographs in the Daily Telegraph’s weekly travel competition The Big Picture in August 2016. This was one of those lucky shots where everything played out perfectly. I remember seeing people jumping off the pier during the first day of the festival. It was an unusually hot Summer’s day in England and the crowds were taking full advantage of the weather drinking beer, paddling in the shallows and diving into the sea. The next day I returned with my camera gear, clambered through the[…]

Date:: August 26, 2016
Categories:: Italy
Tags:: adriatic coast, europe, holiday, italians, italy, la dolce vita, Pesaro, seaside, Urbino
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Living ‘la dolce vita’ in Pesaro Italy . . . without breaking the bank

This Summer I spent ten days on the Adriatic coast of Italy in Pesaro in the region of Marche near Urbino. I flew to Bologna from Heathrow on British Airways and then took a train (about two hours) to Pesaro. The town is sandwiched between the hills of the Northern Appenines and the Adriatic sea and although small, is very quaint with lots to do from exploring the old town, eating at the most fantastic restaurants, visiting beautiful historic Urbino with its tightly packed apartments and pitched cobblestone streets, or cycling along the Pesaro waterfront to some of the quieter beaches either end of the town. Pesaro can be[…]

Date:: August 8, 2016
Categories:: England, nature
Tags:: bees, britain, bumblebees, flowers, honey, nature, photographs
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A tribute to the humble bumblebee

It’s a known fact that if bumblebees didn’t exist, neither would Humans, so here’s my photographic tribute to these fuzzy little hard-working guys.

Date:: August 3, 2016
Categories:: England, Uncategorized
Tags:: british seaside holidays, british traditions, holiday, oyster blessing, oyster festival, oysters, parade, sea creatures, seaside, tradition, villagers, weekend, whistable
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Weeping over Oysters in Whitstable

Growing up in New Zealand, my British grandparents would regale me with stories about the quirky traditions and village pastimes of English people, including how they’d roll cheese downhill in the Cotswold, pay homage to chalk men with enormous appendages in Dorset, and bless oysters with holy water in Kent. Of course I would giggle at their stories, never sure whether they were telling the truth – I mean why would anyone chase cheese?! – but I always secretly harboured a desire to find out for myself; to visit the UK and see whether there really were naked chalk giants in the hills and priests in white robes uttering[…]

Date:: July 13, 2016
Categories:: Africa
Tags:: africa, avaaz, elephants, ivory, petition, save the elephants, Tsavo East
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Stop the elephant slaughter

This is an old photograph I took with a Samsung digital camera nearly twelve years go in Kenya, Africa.The photo is of two elephants – brothers in fact – walking calmly across the plains of Tsavo East National Park. They were so relaxed around us that they almost walked into our jeep. The sound of their soft rumbling and sharp snorts of breath was captivating and moving. Later that night, a family of elephants visited a waterhole very near our camp and we were lucky to watch the herd drinking together. I have never been so close to wild elephants and probably never will again.[…]

Date:: June 19, 2016
Categories:: horse riding, Horses, Ireland
Tags:: cillian murphy, Dublin, Guinness, Howth, Ireland, Irish, seeking love
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Seeking Adam in Ireland

I’ve always wanted to visit Ireland. Firstly, because I’m part Irish and secondly, I believe my future husband is there. He just doesn’t know it yet. His name is Adam and one day he’s going to bump into me on the street on his gypsy horse or knock over my wine in a pub while walking past with his Irish Wolfhound on return from his Irish castle and say ‘Madam I’m Adam’ which is “Madam I’m Adam” backwards. And he’ll look like Cillian Murphy . . . just taller. I’ll have to move to Ireland and live in his castle[…]

Date:: February 7, 2016
Categories:: Blogger, New Zealand, New Zealand; nature; wildlife;
Tags:: animals, birds, conservation, Destinations, fauna, flora, nature, new zealand, travel
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Natural New Zealand: A photo essay

In 2015, I spent three weeks in New Zealand photographing the beautiful fauna and flora of my native country. Here are just some of the images I took from bees collecting honey from deep inside the Pohutukawa flowers in Taranaki, to my favourite birds – the peeping Oyster Catchers – appearing to comically stare at their own reflections in the sand in Raumati, just north of Wellington. Hope you enjoy! SaveSave

Date:: February 2, 2016
Categories:: bird, Blogger, Love, New Zealand, rural, song, taranaki, Tui, wildlife
Tags:: bird, birds, infatuation, new zealand, Taranaki, tui
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Louis the Tui: The tale of an infatuated noisy New Zealand bird

This is Louis the Tui. He followed me all over my parents’ property in rural Taranaki (Naki), New Zealand last Xmas, singing, grunting, wheezing, coughing and popping like a mechanical toy (Tui’s have a very active and noisy vocal range!). At one stage he even landed on the grass near to where I was sitting which is the first time I’ve ever seen a Tui on the ground. My parents were convinced that Louis was threatened by my Nikon camera and large zoom lens possibly thinking it was another Tui invading his space. I like to think he was in love with me and[…]

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