Paradise found
In Italy
Worth a kings ransome
The Kings hunting ground
Gifted to the people in 1922
Italy’s oldest national park
Nestled at the end of the Conge Valley
Paradise found
In Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost he regrets the loss of innocence and in some ways the loss of beauty to sin and greed.
Gran Paridiso is the opposite to that natural beauty returned to the people.
France wins and Cauterets celebrates
In a quite valley
In the Pyrenees
A few sort miles from Spain
Over the Pont d’ Espagna
Cascading
Water
Bringing joy and beauty
On the bridge to Spain
In the Haute Pyrenees
And in bars in Cauterets the faithful watch the world cup being won
And the Gendarme too sounded the victory siren
In Cauterets when France won the World Cup.
The Picos epitomise the mountains of North West Spain.
High
Views of the Picos de Europa
And for the bike rider. The toads to get there.
And camping camping in the lush green of North West Spain
January 2019 Previously published March 2018- This beautiful part of Australia is on fire at this very moment. Horrendous hot fires nothing like anything before. If we don’t act now on the Climate Emergency so much of the nature we love will be lost
The still winds
The warm last days of summer
Moving into Autumn
Called me to the Mountains
The Snowy Mountains
Natures call
The primal call to be in the wild
In an ancient land
A land of Snowgums and Stringybarks
Sacred to the indigenous people of the land
The land of the Man From Snowy River
A land of
Spirits
Ghosts and
Legends
The Snowy’s catching the clouds and sending water in creeks and rivers into the plains below
Little creeks and springs
That flow over waterfalls
feed into the big rivers that water the plains
Water
For cattle
For the native animals
In the bare
Wild nature
The sky smiling
As angels travel
In the beauty of nature
Simple
Free
Alive
In the Snowy Mountains
As summer ends
The Dordogne Riders had lured me to the Vezere Valley
St Leon sur Vezere a beautiful Village in the Dordogne Region of Southern France
Camped on the edge of the river
Amongst significant historic and prehistoric sites
and Chateau de Losse
But southern France is also about the beautiful villages
The continuation of the wonderful biker culture that exists in Europe. *
And of course in France food
And
* I was amazed that after 3 months covering 16,000km in 9 countries I was not pulled over once by the police. Three weeks back in Australia I was pulled over for a licence check while not breaking any law. It was motorcycle awareness (HARASSMENT) month.
