I took this photo one morning on a trip to the Isle of Wight during the 2013 October half term holiday. I was with my husband and son and we’d just arrived at Yaverland beach for a guided fossil hunting walk. There’d been a huge storm across southern England during the night and we weren’t sure whether or not the […]
Holiday snaps: Herculaneum, Italy
I went to Herculaneum last year with my daughter on a tour of the Bay of Naples in Italy with the Family Adventure Company. In Roman times Herculaneum was a wealthy seaside town. In AD79 it was destroyed at the same time as Pompeii when Mount Vesuvius erupted. Pyroclastic flows (volcanic gas and rocks moving at speeds […]
Holiday snaps: Giraffe, Busch Gardens
I took this photo last year at Busch Gardens, a brilliant theme park in Florida. I was in the back of a truck on a Serengeti Safari tour of the African plain area. I’d just given this giraffe some iceberg lettuce and I think he wanted some more.
