The years since 2020 have been a challenging time for everyone. One of the main things of the ‘lost months’ has been a time for reflection, and a recognition that you never know quite what is round the corner. For me that has involved the realisation that I no longer want to be apart from Jude for weeks at a time. Combine that with the realisation that leading/driving on tours is by no means a holiday for the leader, and the urgent need to try and reduce our climate footprint by cutting down on air miles, now is the time to retire from overseas tours. Overseas travel is now for holidays with Jude, especially by train: once we are safe and able to do so, ‘spreading our wings while staying on track‘.
Given the above, this page has now been widened to ‘Tours – Home & Abroad‘ and starts with the UK tour reports:
May 2021 – A Spring Week in #WildEssex – blog
October 2021 – An October Week in #WildEssex – blog
July 2022 – Somerset in Summer – blog and report
September 2022 – #WildEssex Burnham-on-Crouch – blog
September 2023 – ~WildEssex Harlow and the Stort Valley – blog
TOUR REPORTS
Menorca – Autumn 2023 Spring 2018 Autumn 2016 Autumn 2015(recce) Autumn 2013 Autumn 2012(recce) Spring 2011 Spring 2010 Spring 2009 Spring 2002 Spring 1998
Spanish Pyrenees – Summer 2019 Summer 2018 Spring 2018 Summer 2017 Summer 2016 Summer 2016 Summer 2015 Spring 2014 Spring 2013 Spring 2011 Spring 2008 Spring 2006 Spring 2004 Spring 2003 Spring 2001 Spring 1999 Spring 1996 Spring 1993
French Pyrenees – Autumn 2018 Summer 2007 Summer 2005 Summer 2004 Summer 2003
Bulgaria- Western Rhodopes – Summer 2018 Summer 2015 Summer 2014 Summer 2012
Southern Morocco – Spring 2019
Camargue – Spring 2019
Hungary – Spring 2017
Italy & Slovenia – Summer 2006 Summer 1997
Northern Cyprus – Spring 2008
Crete – Spring 2012 Spring 2007 Spring 2005 (and bird list)
North-east Greece – Spring 2000
Romania – Danube Delta and the Carpathians – Summer 2009
Mallorca – Spring 1995 (and species lists)
Others reports, not available online, can be accessed direct from me on request:
Cevennes Summer 2017 Summer 1993
Mount Olympus Summer 1991 Summer 1989 Summer 1988
Cyprus Spring 1994 Spring 1993 Spring 1992
Algarve Spring 1989
Brittany Summer 1994
Crete Spring 1992 Spring 1990 Spring 1989
