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#DayOut

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Éric🇧🇪🥾🚆🚊🌼🐑🐞📷

🇫🇷 Pour ce soir, une vue de Nivelles que j'ai visitée aujourd'hui, une découverte charmante en Roman Païs...

La collégiale Sainte-Gertrude est une ancienne église Abbatiale dont la façade a retrouvé son lustre! Elle est le symbole de la petite ville.

Pour ceux qui veulent, j'ai déjà placé quelques photos du joli par de la Dodaine, l'écrin de verdure de la ville (lien ci-dessous).

Bonne soirée! 👋

🇬🇧 For tonight a lone photo from my visit today, the charming little city of Nivelles is certainly a visit worth!

The collegiale Sainte-Gertrude is the landmark of the city, and it is bright again as the facades were totally restored.

For those who want, I already have set some pictures of the Parc de la Dodaine, the green place in the city (link here under).

Enjoy your evening! 👋

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La Grand Place de Nivelles en province de Brabant Wallon avec sa collégiale Saint-Gertrude qui retrouver son faste en extérieur, à droite dans le fond, le palais de justice et sa tour-beffroi.
#excursion#dayout#dagjeuit
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Spaceways

06/04/2025 - A sunny day out to the city looking at trees. We visited the James Hutton Institute arboretum. It's not big but has a really fine selection of trees. It's home to the tallest tree in Aberdeen, a Sitka Spruce standing at 44 m.

View of James Hutton Institute arboretum, lots of trees! Aberdeen city's tallest tree, a Sitka Spruce standing at 44 m, is on the left with a Giant Sequoia to the right. Sandwiched between them is a much smaller Japanese Red Cedar.
Photo of a Dawn Redwood. Unlike the other redwoods, this one loses its leaves.
Photo of a big tall Monkey Puzzle
Looking up the big trunk of a Noble Fir.
#DayOut#Trees
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05/04/2025 - A sunny day out looking at stuff. We saw some great big things but it's the little things I always love best.

A few snaps of some things that made me smile.

Early mining bee - Seemed happy on its dandelion.
A female larch cone - I love these.
Holly leaf miner - Nice patterns on the leaf.
Furry Dronefly - I'm a bee honest!

Early mining bee - Seemed happy on its dandelion. It was liking the early spring pollen.
A new female red larch cone on a branch with a tree lined track beyond.
Holly leaf miner on a holly leaf. A small fly with larvae causing a red patch on the leaf.
Furry Dronefly on a tree, it looks a bit like a bee.
#DayOut#Nature#Bees
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virtuosew
Forge Mill Needle Museum, in Redditch, is not a large museum, but it is full of interest, and the staff and volunteers were delightful. I can recommend it.

Bring walking shoes and time, if that appeals, there is also a two hour self guided walk around the water meadow and associated archaeology, which I wasn't able to fit in.

#MuseumVisit #DayOut
Sign on a wall reads: Welcome to ForgeMill Needle Museum and Bordesley Abbey Visitor Centre
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Rachel McDove

Home again, home again, jiggety jig.

Lovely afternoon with friends, excellent food. Fester and I are both exhausted!

He's not done much travelling before, and was a little stressed at points. He HATED the escalator at the train station. More adventuring is needed, I think!

#DayOut#Shattered
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07/03/2025 - Day off work. We headed to the hills. A fine loop up and round Peter Hill on a sunny day in Aberdeenshire. Mild with little wind, just a really nice day for a walk. We plonked down in the heather and had our butties. It was quiet on the hill, I was happy. We saw a lovely adder on the way up enjoying the sun. Good birds too, red kite and snow bunting on top, skylarks everywhere, grey wagtail and dipper on the river near the end. Top day out.

An adder taking in some early spring warmth from the sun. It seemed calm enough but we didn't get too close and moved on quickly so not to disturb it.
Photo of the trigpoint on top of Peter Hill. It's a landscape of heather round here.
Photo of our legs as we sat in the heather, enjoying the sunshine and quiet hillside. My flask is next to me.
Heading down the hill. No path, just a nice walk through the heather down to Water of Feugh.
#Hills#Trigpoint#DayOut
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Éric🇧🇪🥾🚆🚊🌼🐑🐞📷

🇨🇵 Et me voici arrivé à Michelau d'où je vais reprendre le train vers Luxembourg. Il y aura un extra à l'excursion car depuis hier le tram est désormais prolongé jusqu'à l'aéroport du Findel, la ligne 1 est ainsi complète.

🇬🇧 Arrived in Michelau where I'll take a train back to Luxembourg and there will be an extra to this day out as the tramway serves since yesterday the Airport. Line 1 is now complete.

La petite gare de Michelau et dans le fond sur les hauteurs le château de Bourscheid, à droite l'église du village. The small station of Michelau with Bourscheid Castle in the background on the heights, right the village's church.
#dayOut#excursion#railways
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Spaceways

28/02/2025 - Last day of Meteorological winter. We had the day off work and the weather was sunny so we headed for the hills. A fine walk up Mona Gowan from the Strathdon side. It was just us and a big blue sky. A good day for birds. Raven and golden plover on top. On the way back through the woods we had a couple of crossbill. A great day out, good for the heads.

View from the track we were walking up. The heather hills of Strathdon on a fine sunny day.
On the top of Mona Gowen is the large Jubilee Cairn. Constructed in 1887 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria's reign.
Looking east from Mona Gowen. The big hill in the distance is wonderful Morven. Heather covered but thin soil so not deep. The odd snow patch here and there.
Track heading down. Trees on one side. Hills beyond.
#Hills#DayOut
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Fi

Well, today was unexpected.

Saturday which means going out for coffee with Billy. So he appears at mine, asks where we are heading, I say I have ran out of goats cheese, and ping, Billy says he has a friend that makes (and sells) goats cheese. So off we went.

Naturally that means a drive up through Glenshee, a stop for coffee, then up to his friends house in Banchory for coffee, a little walk so I could take photos of the river (not included in this batch of photos), a photo of a totem pole that signifies the Scouts many years of association with Scouts in Canada. Then since I still wanted to walk on a beach we done a fleeing visit to Aberdeen where I got to walk on the beach for a few minutes before the rain came lashing down.

I love how a couple of minutes on the beach, especially on a wild day, can absolutely reset my brain.

I am absolutely exhausted with those numb, heavy limbs again, I have super expensive goats cheese in the fridge, I bought one book (see that level of restraint 😉). At least I am home now, in my pjs, hot water bottle on my knee and I should really try to eat something now since all I have had today is a vegan sausage roll from Greggs.

Tomorrow is a definite rest day before physio on Monday morning!

Photo of tourist information board about the 18th century military roads and bridges in Perthshire. The left of the board has a lot of text about the roads (I will add this into the alt text tomorrow), the middle of the board has a drawing of a military road being built, on the right is a map of Scotland with different coloured lines showing who built which roads and a "you are here" marker showing as being just over halfway between Blairgowrie and Braemar.
Photo looking along the road, taken along Old Military Road in Glenshee. The wavy road goes along the middle of the photo, the hill in the distance has some snow near the top and low cloud hides the top of the hills. At ground level the grasses and other plant life are shades of brown. Snow poles line the edge of the road, thankfully not needed today.
Photo of Banchory Scouts totem pole and an information board beside it tells of the reason for the pole. At the bottom of the pole is an orca, above that is a blue section with white shapes, next is a person with black hair and feathers in their hair, a maple leaf is next, followed by a small green then pink section, near the top is the Scout symbol, the totem pole is topped by a blue bird with outstretched wings and a yellow beak.
A beach with some stones and big waves heading to the shore, in the distance a wind farm and ships can be seen out at sea.
#Life#DayOut#Photos
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26/01/2025 - Today we looked at big things and little things and things in between.

Bus out and a long walk home on the quiet roads. Lots to see from wonderful giant redwood trees to bedraggled tiny daisies. Plenty birds too. We sat by the river half way back and watched as curlews, reed buntings & goosanders went about their business. All not that common for us. Red kite, brown hare and roe deer later which made for a lovely end to our walk.

Photo of a tall giant redwood tree. We took a different route today at the start of our walk and met this lovely tree!
A little daisy by the bench we were sitting at. It looks a little tired but seemed happy to see us. Not enough flowers about, roll on spring.
#WildFlowerHour#WildFlowers#Trees
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25/01/2025 - A trip to town. I forget how nice Aberdeen is for a walk. A sunny winter's day today, it was looking great. 10 mile walk from the bus station, through the harbour to the lighthouse (we saw dolphins and purple sandpipers, happy us). Then back over Tullos Hill with its ancient cairns and trigpoint to Duthie Park for a coffee. Finally along the River Dee to catch the bus home. Top day out, even the humans weren't too annoying. I'm very sleepy now.

View out to sea from Girdle Ness. The North Sea looks a bit chilly. There's a big boat, heading to the Harbour I guess. It's good for birds here (and wild flowers over summer). Amongst the rocks we had redshank, turnstone and 30 plus purple sandpiper which made my day. Plenty gulls and ducks today too.
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Baron's cairn on Tullos Hill with a trigpoint in the middle. View to Aberdeen beyond. It's good sized Bronze Age cairn.
Me giving a sign on a fence the thumbs up, it reads 'Danger Explosive Atmosphere'. It added a little bit of excitement to this part of the walk. Glad I'd given up smoking 20 odd years back or we could have gone boom!
#DayOut#Trigpoint
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Rachel McDove

#3GoodThings

1. Despite feeling like shite (mentally!) I went out to Edinburgh today for my friend's birthday and had a nice time

2. Got to admire my favourite piece at the Women In Revolt exhibition one last time before it ends (see pic, although the picture cant possibly do it justice)

3. Didn't break down crying, or go home early today. I'm SHATTERED, but very happy to have celebrated my friend's birthday with him!

Houria Niati - No to Torture (After Delacroix ‘Women of Algiers’) A stunning painting of four stylised female figures, each a different bold colour, on a blue and purple background. The red figure on the left has a green cross hatched circle over the head. The green figure next to that has a red box on hers. The next is a yellow figure with a red circle with a cross over her head. The final figure, on the right is blue and has no head. It's a piece that has been on display in Edinburgh as part of the Women In Revolt exhibition, and is one of the most striking, incredible artworks I've ever seen. The picture and my description can't really do it justice. The composition was inspired by Delacroix's 'Women of Algiers' , and represent women who fought against French rule in Algiers.
#ThreeGoodThings#WomenInRevolt#DayOut
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