Showing posts with label Station. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Station. Show all posts

Thursday, March 8, 2018

08/03/2018 A few photos I missed last month, and what I am sure was a siskin in the garden today

Maximum temperature today 15C, minimum 2C.   3 mm of rain measured this morning and we have had dry blue skies today; 11 km/h South Westerly winds with up to 39 km/h gusts.  (319 mm of rain so far from the 1st of January).
Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus).

As above.

A rare sighting in our garden of what I believe is a Eurasian siskin female (Spinus spinus).  It was quite far away as all of today's birds were.

Common wood pigeon (Columba palumbus).

Great tit (Parus major).

One lone camellia in flower.

At the end of last month we went to Gourville and somehow I never loaded the photos on the blog!!
The station is now closed there, but they have the memories...

As above...

The mural at the end of the building....

A flat bed wagon on the old tracks.

Cafe de la Gare; we had a meat pie and veg here for lunch and it was very good.  Just as we were leaving, the owner told us she had the keys for the little museum if we were interested.  A bit late then as we wanted to get home, but maybe if we head that way again

Driving home from Gourville.

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

30/08/2017 A trip to Angouleme.

Maximum temperature 25C, minimum 16C.  14 km/h NE wind with 47km/h gusts.  Some rain not measured yet.
The fountain on the outskirts of Angouleme just before the station.

The rail station.

One of Angouleme's many painted walls.

I must have driven past this building 100's of times and I have never noticed the carvings before!

More carvings in the centre of town.

The castle - and town hall now.

In the gardens of the Hotel Mercure...

as above showing the view.

Looking down onto the railway....

and the Charente river...

and another wall painting.

Roses in the garden, they had just had a shower.

Lunch at Chez Doud...

We were early so I could take a shot of the inside...

and the dessert menu...

Cheers.

Nigel was fascinated by this electric car...

as above.

Then the rain came down driving home, though we have not had much on our garden:-((

Wednesday, June 14, 2017

14/06/2017 A visit to Chasseneuil to get my hair cut.

Maximum temperature 29C, minimum 16C. 7 kmh NE wind.  3mm measured from last night.
Last time I showed you this new factory was 29 April Things seem to be moving slowly to me, but it is a huge area. Apologies for the light changes, I did not have my wide angle lens with me.

Lots of poppies by the sides of the roads.

I was early so I took a walk around the car park...

The archway is covered in various creepers...

Climbing rose,

Honeysuckle...

Wisteria and others.

On the other corner is one of the wooden carvings surrounded by many shrubs...

I recognised St John's-wort...

But this one I did not know.

The railway station on the other-side is not used as such anymore and it has been restored into flats.
  
Next to it is the local hotel...

and then this gateway.

Just beyond, there are some new shops, sadly the old second hand shop that was there closed down.

On the other-side of the car park is my hairdresser.

Wheat fields driving back home.

Thursday, March 30, 2017

30/03/17 Out for a drive with friends enjoying the magical weather we have at present.

Maximum temperature 23C, minimum 7C.  15 kmh SW wind.   Dry.
Almost all photos are taken from a moving car today...
We all met at Massignac where I took no photos! This is the church at Genouillac...

we drove past the Charente lakes...

and through Lesignac...

Lesignac war memorial...

through Montemboeuf...

and past the winter wheat fields towards Chasseneuil.

The roundabout entering Chasseneuil...

and past the beautiful trees full of blossom...

where we parked at the station to have a coffee at the the cafe opposite.

We then made our way up to the Chasseneuil Resistance Memorial...

The top of the memorial....

and the view across Chasseneuil from the top of the hill.

Cowslips by the side of the road as we made our way to Roumazieres for lunch...

along a leafy lane...

and an interesting wall made from roofing tiles on entering Roumazieres.

I took many more photos of lunch, but think you have had enough blogs here recently on great luncheons making you hungry!!!!!

If tomorrow I go missing, I will be back, but we have friends coming to dinner and it depends on how quickly I get through cooking etc............