Proud Moma ❤️🐑

So lucky to enjoy this as my morning walk - quiet woods, a still loch, and fresh air to take a moment to breathe. A beautiful way to start the day listening to the morning birdsong.🌲✨#MorningWalk #Nature

Best life by the sea. Grateful for where I live, every single day. 🌊✨

A lovely evening in Iguazu seeing where Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay meet. There is an obelisk on each border. The bridge changes colours half way as it changes countries.

In awe at Iguazu Falls, a powerful reminder of how breath taking our planet can be. 🌎

An amazing day visiting the Iguazu Falls, one of the natural wonders of the world. 🌈

I could get used to being a lady of leisure. I've become accustomed to pre-dinner cocktails at the hotel. 😁🍸🍋‍🟩🍹

Out and about in Buenos Aires

La Bombonera, home to the prominent Argentine football club, Boca Juniors.

Love all the signwriting in La Boca; the vibrant, fun and colourful tango district in Buenos Aires. ❤️

A nice visit to Tigre, even if it did rain and a boat trip along the river Delta.

Cheese🧀and wine🍷

Beautiful Buenos Aires. Stunning architecture, vast road networks, grand boulevards. Like Paris but on a much larger scale.

There are amazing 250-year-old rubber trees in the centre of Buenos Aires. 😍

Mafalda is a six-year-old Argentine comic strip character created by cartoonist Quino, known for her social consciousness, wit, and concern for humanity and world peace. She's everywhere and everyone loves her! 😊

Loving exploring La Boca, the vibrant, fun and colourful tango district in Buenos Aires.❤️💃🕺

Ready to roll into a new week.😁#MondayMorningYoga

Blue skies and sunshine. A lovely Sunday spent gathering willow and daffodils from the garden to make a cheerful spring flower arrangement and cuddles with the hens.

Field of hope 🙏

This is an incredible performance by Yoann Bourgeois, representing life, grief and the art of never giving up. https://youtu.be/x_DA3dgRSrw

The first Hellebores are ready to cut and I adore them, the plummy pinks, the soft green‑whites, the frills and speckles. So beautiful. And the carpet of snowdrops is a sure sign that change is coming. They're stunning en masse.

Happy Valentine's Day! 💕 to everyone spreading kindness, love and little moments of joy. Celebrate the love in your life, big or small. 💗

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Lovely, chillaxing weekend, wining & dining to celebrate 19 years of love, laughter and adventures together. Grateful for every moment. Here's to many more years of love and fun. #19Years #Anniversary

Well hello February, don't you just look fabulous! 😁Wrapped up warm for a walk around Dunure. Any Outlander Fans may recognise the harbour. ⚓️

I love stone circles. Torhousekie is one of southern Scotland's best‑preserved megalithic sites, with 19 granite stones on a raised 22m platform. The tallest stand in the southeast. There are three central stones, recorded in 1684 as 'King Gauldus' Tomb'.

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Went to Big Burns Supper (a 10-day winter festival in Dumfries to celebrate Burns Night). The Washing Line outdoor installation is an immersive experience sharing voices & stories of the town's history, from growing up in Dumfries to war memories. A moving tribute to local life.

Kicking off 2026 with an amazing group, facilitating Personal Impact training. We're discussing mental fitness, cognitive behavioural therapy, motivation, confidence & resilience. Believe in your dreams. What drives you? What does achievement look like for you? #GrowthMindset

Watching the changing of the guard at the Mausoleum of Ataturk in Ankara.

Sunrise at the salt lake. 😍🌞

Kaymakli, the underground city has a maze of tunnels and rooms carved eight levels deep into the earth 12 miles from the city of Nevsehir. It is believed to have been built in the Hittite period, it's the widest of the underground cities in the region. Amazing!

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Hand painted pottery in Turkey.

The bazaars of Istanbul are beautiful places.

A Testi (Sunrise Jug), a traditional Anatolian wine vessel is positioned so the rising sun lands in the central hole, signalling when wine could be served. Carried over the shoulder, it freed hands for travel & made it easy to pour the drink without removing from the shoulder.

A visit to Hagia Sophia, the biggest church constructed by the East Roman Empire in Istanbul, Topkapi Palace & a cruise along the Bosphorus river.

Loving Istanbul!

Enjoying discovering Bursa and seeing the Green Mosque with tombs of Osman and Orhan Gazi, the historic silk bazaar and Ulu Mosque with 20 domes.

Visited Canakkale marina to see the Troy horse from the 2004 film, 'Troy'. Warner Brothers gifted it to the town after filming. It is 12 metres tall and weighs 12 tons.

Enjoyed exploring the archaeological site of Troy to see the ruins. The iconic wooden horse, built in 1975 by architect İzzet Senemoğlu using Mount Ida pine, stands 12.5m tall. Visitors can climb inside and gaze through small windows toward Troy's UNESCO World Heritage site.

Today we visited the ancient city of Pergamon, one of the most important cultural, commercial and medical centres of antiquity. We walked around Asclepion, the ancient world's most prestigious hospital, once home to Galen, the famous Greek physician and philosopher.

Staying in Kushiasi and just arrived in time to see the sunset over the Aegean Sea.

Seeing the Greco-Roman City of Ephesus come to life in a virtual show.

Enjoyed a day exploring the Greco-Roman City of Ephesus, once the capital of Asia Minor and one of the best-preserved cities from this period.

Situated on Mount Koressos in the hills above the ancient city of Ephesus, we visited an important pilgrimage site, the House of the Virgin Mary, believed to be the place where she spent the final years of her life.

Explored Pamukkale & ancient Hierapolis today, It is a stunning UNESCO site! White travertine terraces, mineral-rich hot springs & ruins of a 2nd BCE city with temples, baths, amphitheatre & vast necropolis. Truly an otherworldly landscape!

Enjoyed an amazing time exploring Cappadocia's surreal Fairy Chimneys today! These towering rock formations, shaped by volcanic activity & erosion over millions of years, were once homes & sanctuaries for early Christians. They create a surreal, almost otherworldly landscape.

Celebrating the new year in a cave restaurant in Cappadocia. We're being served traditional Testi Kebab, slow-cooked stew in a clay pot over an open flame, The pot is brought to the table & dramatically cracked open in a performance. Wishing you good health & happiness for 2026!