✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts In Cap Ferret #France Oyster season in full swing -only eat when it is a French month ending with ‘ re’😎👍 Great views from the lighthouse @onloughrigg.bsky.social @carolinemills99.bsky.social #TravelBloggersCommunity @travelbugsworld.bsky.social #TravelBlogShare

✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts In Cap Ferret #France Oyster season in full swing -only eat when it is a French month ending with ‘ re’😎👍 Great views from the lighthouse @onloughrigg.bsky.social @carolinemills99.bsky.social #TravelBloggersCommunity @travelbugsworld.bsky.social #TravelBlogShare

✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts Puy de Sancy..1885m #France The highest part of the Massif Central…however did walk some of it in the cable car 😉It was hot 😎👍 #TravelBloggersCommunity @travelbugsworld.bsky.social #TravelBlogShare

✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts Here is a man taking his birds for a ‘walk’ in the mountains (Auvergne France)Thought I had seen it all with dogs and cats backpacked…apparently not😉 @travelbugsworld.bsky.social @alastairhumphreys.bsky.social @christownsend.bsky.social @pastpreservers.bsky.social @baldhiker.com

✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts Here is a man taking his birds for a ‘walk’ in the mountains (Auvergne France)Thought I had seen it all with dogs and cats backpacked…apparently not😉 @travelbugsworld.bsky.social @alastairhumphreys.bsky.social @christownsend.bsky.social @pastpreservers.bsky.social @baldhiker.com

Waterloo-what an interesting site and poignant reminders of 1815 ..another ‘what if’ should the Prussians not arrived ? @fotofacade.bsky.social @pastpreservers.bsky.social @jenhenders.bsky.social @travelbugsworld.bsky.social #TravelBloggersCommunity #TravelBlogShare #TravelBloggers #TravelAddicts

Walking on the paths en route to St.Bega Lake Bassenthwaite #LakeDistrict Though rather too much Himalayan Balsam - a non-native invasive plant 😉 @bsbibotany.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @petergibbs.bsky.social @sarahwhild.bsky.social @haggewoods.bsky.social @stevetrotter1.bsky.social

Might be another rainbow walking 🌈 day in mountains #LakeDistrict given the weather conditions 🤔 @stormhour.com @jenhenders.bsky.social @christownsend.bsky.social @suewilkinson.bsky.social @petergibbs.bsky.social @grahamuney.bsky.social

Up Cat Bells #LakeDistrict today with grandson -nice to end the day with a #rainbow🌈 @travelbugsworld.bsky.social #TravelBloggersCommunity #TravelBlogShare #TravelBloggers #TravelAddicts

A good #bankholiday activity with young children at Windermere #LakeDistrict is ‘skimming stones’ until pollution is resolved 😉 @travelbugsworld.bsky.social #TravelBloggersCommunity #TravelBlogShare #TravelBloggers @carolinemills99.bsky.social @haggewoods.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social

Having fun with some of our grandkids #LakeDistrict ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts

A day in Blackpool with two of the grandkids 😀 🎢 🍦✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts

Damming #LakeDistrict report www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Don’t forget the Burley in Wharfedale Summer Festival kicks off this weekend. Weather looks good and Sunday in particular is a big day with the massive car show, stalls etc. for details. For details of what’s on when, see www.burleysummerfestival.org/calendar #WestYorkshire

Buttermere #LakeDistrict yesterday ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts and Threlkeld Knotts today..one was teeming with visitors and one was solitude 😉😎 Plenty of Tormentil @bsbibotany.bsky.social @stormhour.com

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... #LakeDistrict #TravelAddicts @phoebesmith.bsky.social

Wainwright Society walk at the weekend on the hills above Scorton and the Wyre #Lancashire Impressive broach spire on St Peter’s Church. @kpw1453.bsky.social @johnmanningpct.bsky.social @christownsend.bsky.social @jenhenders.bsky.social @fellranger.bsky.social @groomb.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... #LakeDistrict #Poetry

A new map shows 10,000 walking trails across the UK - Time Out London "Slow Ways wants to ‘connect every town, city and national landscape in Britain’ and make rural walking accessible to all" www.timeout.com/uk/news/a-ne... #SlowWays

#LakeDistrict ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts Late afternoon sun at last over Blencathra.Plenty of heather (Calluns vulgaris) and Rose bay willowherb (Chamaenerion angustiflolium) in bloom @bsbibotany.bsky.social @stormhour.com @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social

#LakeDistrict ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts A good day out in the Lakes , plenty of sunshine 😎and Common Harebell in full bloom @bsbibotany.bsky.social @stormhour.com @suewilkinson.bsky.social @amyjanebeer.bsky.social @carolinemills99.bsky.social @petergibbs.bsky.social @onloughrigg.bsky.social

#LakeDistrict ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts A good visit to Brantwood near Coniston,former home of John Ruskin(1819-1900).Art exhibition by wildlife artist Rachel Singleton and ‘The Great Trees of Cumbria’ .Tong Galuidi. ‘Nature is painting for us,day after day,pictures of infinite beauty.’ -Ruskin

Kendal Calling this weekend..(sold out) ..don’t be caught out by the location…it’s near Penrith 😉 ..and traffic build up has started already .Getting my shopping done now 😀👍 #LakeDistrict #Festival

#LakeDistrict ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts Always worth a visit - Holehird Gardens on the fells above Windermere and run by volunteers @dougthegardener.bsky.social

#LakeDistrict ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts catching some hot chocolate and carrot cake at the enchanted @faerylandgrasmere.bsky.social Grasmere

We're celebrating 10,000 Slow Ways routes with this stunning and electric mapping of our network by @urbangood.bsky.social. The full map shows 5,790 routes rated 3+. A massive congratulations and thanks to all of our volunteers. See the map in full here buildstories.slowways.org/celebrating-...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... @futureproofcumbria.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/... Follow @phoebesmith.bsky.social advice get those kids outside in the summer holidays 😀@creativestar.bsky.social 😎

Great day out on a joint @rgsibg.bsky.social and Wainwright Society walk in the #LakeDistrict yesterday ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts @christownsend.bsky.social @fellranger.bsky.social @teamwalking.bsky.social @johnmanningpct.bsky.social @onloughrigg.bsky.social

#LakeDistrict ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts A very interesting course on foraging today and we get to eat the produce 😀(nb.but not the red cap Beechwood Sickener it’s poisonous) @onloughrigg.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @amyjanebeer.bsky.social @pastpreservers.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Great day out on a joint @rgsibg.bsky.social and Wainwright Society walk in the #LakeDistrict yesterday ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts @christownsend.bsky.social @fellranger.bsky.social @teamwalking.bsky.social @johnmanningpct.bsky.social @onloughrigg.bsky.social

#LakeDistrict ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts A very interesting course on foraging today and we get to eat the produce 😀(nb.but not the red cap Beechwood Sickener it’s poisonous) @onloughrigg.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @amyjanebeer.bsky.social @pastpreservers.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

On the back road above the Keswick-Threlkeld Railway line. What a difference a day makes 😎#LakeDistrict ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts @stormhour.com

Refreshingly wet and quiet along the Keswick-Threlkeld railway path this morning #LakeDistrict ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts @stormhour.com

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Always sad to hear of fatalities on Blencathra #LakeDistrict

A fine view of Blencathra this morning..pleasant weather 😀 in the #LakeDistrict @stormhour.com

Visited Roman site at Abusina 🇩🇪 excavated 1879 -1919. Abusina was part of a first series of forts established along the Danube,eventually part of the Obergermanisch-Raetische Limes', the German limes ✈️🗺️ #TravelAddicts @pastpreservers.bsky.social @romanhistory1.bsky.social @petesavin.bsky.social

In the amazing Berchtesgaden National Park 🇩🇪 ✈️🗺️ stunning mountains and lakes @stormhour.com @travelingineurope.bsky.social

The other side of Berchtesgaden is the inexorable link to the Nazi’s It was the secondary HQ of the Nazi leadership.Hitler’s Berghof no longer exists,however the ‘Eagle’s Nest’ is intact.The Dokumentation Centre and Bunker is appropriately handled.🇩🇪 ✈️🗺️ @pastpreservers.bsky.social

The other side of Berchtesgaden is the inexorable link to the Nazi’s It was the secondary HQ of the Nazi leadership.Hitler’s Berghof no longer exists,however the ‘Eagle’s Nest’ is intact.The Dokumentation Centre and Bunker is appropriately handled.🇩🇪 ✈️🗺️ @pastpreservers.bsky.social

The other side of Berchtesgaden is the inexorable link to the Nazi’s It was the secondary HQ of the Nazi leadership.Hitler’s Berghof no longer exists,however the ‘Eagle’s Nest’ is intact.The Dokumentation Centre and Bunker is appropriately handled.🇩🇪 ✈️🗺️ @pastpreservers.bsky.social

The other side of Berchtesgaden is the inexorable link to the Nazi’s It was the secondary HQ of the Nazi leadership.Hitler’s Berghof no longer exists,however the ‘Eagle’s Nest’ is intact.The Dokumentation Centre and Bunker is appropriately handled.🇩🇪 ✈️🗺️ @pastpreservers.bsky.social

In the amazing Berchtesgaden National Park 🇩🇪 ✈️🗺️ stunning mountains and lakes @stormhour.com @travelingineurope.bsky.social

A little gem of a museum the AtomKeller in Haigerloch 🇩🇪 ✈️🗺️ Under the direction of Prof.Heisenberg the last experiments on a German #nuclear reactor before seized by US army in April 1945.Another of those what ifs? Pertinent given events in #Iran @pastpreservers.bsky.social @baldhiker.com

Roman open air museum at Hechingen-Stein 🇩🇪 ✈️🗺️ a large villa and country estate 1-3 C A.D almost certainly overrun by the Germanic tribes. Some partial reconstruction since ‘rediscovery’ in 1971 @pastpreservers.bsky.social @kpw1453.bsky.social @romanhistory1.bsky.social @petesavin.bsky.social

This is the interesting ‘Physics Window created by Johannes Schreiter in the Church of the Holy Spirit in #Heidelberg 🇩🇪 1984 .From E= mc2 to atomic bomb. The window links Einsteins mass-energy equivalence to the date of #Hiroshima 6.8.45 ✈️🗺️ Very apt given #Israel #Iran conflict 😉