I made another visit to Bulgaria with my good friend Barrie Staley. We arranged our own trip and planned it with the Bulgarian Friendship Society. The dates were 12th July to 20th July to hopefully coincide with one or two special butterflies, including Balkan Blue. We visited a number of familiar sites that we had […]
My wife Helen and I decided to head back to the beautiful Aegean Island of Samos for our usual weeks holiday. This was to be our 4th visit, to the same hotel and location and we really like our little Shangri-la. This year the bird activity around and over the hotel was rather quiet and
PART FOUR – For some years now I have wanted to experience the desert birding in Morocco, and during 2017 I was fortunate enough to achieve my goal and I spent a week there, between 10th March and 20th March 2017, birding in the special desert areas. I traveled with Boletas Birdwatching Tours, operated by Josele
Just recently back from a chill-out week on the Balearic Isle of Menorca. We had a great relaxing time at the beautiful resort of Cala Galdana on the south coast. The weather was superb, the food superb and the hotel superb. What more can I say. One of the reasons we chose this resort was
My wife & I spent another glorious week at our favourite place on Samos, at the small fishing village of Kokkari on the north coast of this beautiful island. This was our third year running on Samos and I must admit, it is one of my favourite places to just simply chill-out for a week
During our twelve days in SW Bulgaria in addition to the birds and amazing range of Butterfly species, we also saw some very interesting moths, dragonflies and other insects. The scenery wasn’t bad either. Our bespoke trip was arranged by The British-Bulgarian Society and Balkania Travel, the same company we used back in 2012. They
After a successful Butterfly trip to the SE of Bulgaria in 2012, Barrie, Anita & Elliott Staley and myself decided to re-visit this butterfly rich country during July of this year. This time we would visit the high mountain regions of the South West. Our time was spent in the Pirin, Rila and parts of
In 2012, along with Barrie, Anita and Elliott Staley, I enjoyed a superb 10 days in the Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria, in search of the vast range of butterfly species that this country has to offer. Upon our return to the UK, we said we would need to return to Bulgaria and this July we
