A Tog's Trek

Another walk through the forest and I found, aside from a random pumpkin, a few animals.

It was almost exactly five years before when I was last at Stonehenge. It was a beautiful day when I was there last, but this time was much greyer and cloudier. It adds a certain something to the mysterious monoliths.

With Corona making indoor activities less than ideal, I went to Marwell Zoo to catch up with some friends and take my new camera out for a bit of a spin.

Another trip through the forest let me find a few more animals. Some elusive, some quite common.

With a brief break in cloud cover over the new forest, I was able to handhold a shot or two of the moon with my new Canon R5 and 100-400mm lens.

For the first time in two years, I was back in the UK. It was also my first time using my brand new Canon R5 camera. I’d fitted the 100-400MM lens to the front with a control ring adaptor (bound to ISO changes). With that and some rudimentary practice of all the new settings and buttons, I went out into the New Forest in Hampshire.

Easily mistaken for Gallo Pinto in restaurants by travellers, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, a dish of White Rice & Red Beans, simmered in coconut milk has a similar name, but a very different flavour.

Nothing says Cost Rica quite like the famous Rice & Beans dish, Gallo Pinto. The biggest challenge is finding the Salsa Lizano, the signature flavour of Costa Rica.

Organised by Sounds of Gothenburg, this gig was at a record store along Andra Langatan in Gothenburg. The session started with interviews with the bands before moving into the music.

I was invited along to the premiere of Sounds of Gothenburg to take some photos by a friend of mine. Looking back through the archive, it had been a decade since I last shot a gig.

One of the amazing things about living in Gothenburg is the closeness to nature. A few of us left from work on a Friday and took the train up to Surtesjön, a lake north of Gothenburg. A quick hike from the station and we found a spot for camping, cooking and swimming by the edge of the lake.

Reached easily from Central Gothenburg via Angered Centrum, Vättlefjälls Naturreservat is one of the largest nature reserves in the area and a lovely place to spend a weekend camping and hiking.