NIGEL'S RAMBLES

• Spring is Almost Here 2 months ago After a work appointment, I had time to take a walk through the "Fontanili di corte Valle Re", a nature reserve near Reggio Emilia. Here a series of small lakes have formed along the spring line, where water emerges after flowing underground from the low Apennine foothills. It is one of my...
• A Rollercoaster Year 4 months ago  Well this has been a rollercoaster year. Apart from the health disaster that has enveloped us all, and the extra effort to keep my small Engineering practice meeting the ups and downs of a highly volatile workload. it was a moment of big changes to the photographic equipment I use.  Here is my...
• The Battle of San Martino 6 months ago  Some months ago, I visited the site of the Battle of Solferino, a battle in the Italian War of Independence that indirectly led to the founding of the red Cross and the Geneva Convention. This time, whilst I was near here for work, I took a couple of hours off to visit the site of the Battle of...
• A Day in Florence 7 months ago  I have a yearly structural inspection job that I do down in a grubby industrial area close to Florence. It takes me about an hour, and then I have the rest of the day to explore Florence.In past years I have done the obvious stuff like the Cathedral and Baptistry, so this set is about what you...
• Scenes from a Nightmare 1 year ago We started the week on Monday in a strange sort of way. We were confined to our Comune, but the shops were open and we could go for our morning coffee and pastry to get the day stated. We still had some sort of normality. The empty streets seemed quite novel.Reggio Emilia Reggio Emilia I took a...

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