Holiday Alcazares Spain May 2016

 boats on the Mar Menor

 Mountains in the mist

 The restaurant on the sea

 Nets drying at Sanata Pola

 From the ferry to Tabarca

On the Island of Tabarca

 Normal population is about 50 much more in the holiday season

 Fortifications built in the 18th century

 St Peter and St pul church completed 1779

 A tourist

 Pretty bays

 The lighthouse (working)

 Towards the mainland

 a coffee while waiting for the last ferry back

 Tapas in the restaurant on the sea

 Hibiscua

 Sunset from the balcony

 walking back to the centre

 Restaurant Angela

 Rooftop restaurant

 Morning coffee stop and mercadona

 Sea bream cooked in salt being served

 For two

And very nice it was too!!

Madeira 2016

We spent two weeks in Madeira from 18 April to 2nd May. the first week the weather was up and down but only wet once. the second week it was lovely around 20/21 degrees.

 Wonderful fruit, veg and flower market

 In the narrow streets of the old town a lot of the doors are decorated

 coffee at the hotel (we had breakfast here too.

 cocktails

 Orchids in Monte Palace gardens

 On a tour of the Island

Our hotel

 A coffee stop in town

The botanical gardens Both the Monte and the Botanical are accessed by cable car.

These are just a few of the 600+ I took. Hopefully more when I have time in a couple of weeks.

Dorset and Burton Bradstock April 2016

 West Bay & Golden Cap

 West Bay cottages

 West bay (Broadchurch)

 West Bay

 Landscape Transition sculpture on the start/finish of the new sea wall walk at Lyme regis

 Lyme Regis

 Lyme taken from the harbour

 Magnolia

 Rhododendron

 Helebore

 sculptures in the woods in Abbotsbury Tropical gardens

 Cork Oak tree

 Kookaburra

Golden pheasant

 rough sea at Burton Bradstock

 'Beached'

 West Bay

 Rhododendron at Abbotsbury

 Camelia

 carvings on fallen tree

duck reflections