30 June 2026

As June came to an end I found it interesting to look back through my photos to see what I'd been doing in June over the last 10 years. Quite a lot, as it turned out.

June 2016

There was Lake Bled in Slovenia, where we had lunch at Tito's house looking onto the lake -

and Miramare castle on the Adriatic coast, after driving back from Trieste -

June 2017

Here we were crossing the Pyrenees, around Lescun -

and here stopping to admire a caballero with his horse in the streets of Cordoba -

June 2018

On the Scandinavian expedition this was Fjällbacka on Sweden's west coast where we stayed in the timber framed B&B of a local hairdresser -

and the wonderful moment of arriving at the harbour of Mariehamn on the Åland islands by ferry (taken from the deck of the magnificent Viking Line) -

June 2019

In a year that was intense with travel (we had no idea what was coming in 2020, so it was as though I had some unconscious urge to pack as much in as I possibly could before it all stopped), these were two destinations in June alone:

India - here driving through Agra, about 230 kms from Delhi -

and the Camargue, France, en route to Les Saintes Maries de la Mer -

June 2020

The world had shut down, and so my world shrank to solitary walks with my dog in Battersea Park -

But that month we came out in our thousands to march in protest over George Floyd -

June 2021

After getting my second vaccine at St Thomas' Hospital, I walked along the Covid Memorial Wall, stretching from Westminster Bridge to Lambeth Bridge. With over 250,000 individually painted hearts, each representing a life lost to Covid.