Travel highlights of 2018

Due to unforeseen circumstances we have to abandon our summer holiday plan in Scotland and Wales this year, which we would have spent with friends. However, the warm weather in spring saw us visiting Peterborough’s country park in Ferry Meadows several times. We did manage to squeeze in a day-out in Stonehenge and Windsor Castle in June. On my own, I went to Nottingham also in June and near York in September on work-related travels.

Short day out in Lower Derwent Valley NNR

View from the NNR office

I joined my work colleagues on the last day of our 2-day team meeting held in late September at the NNR's office in Bank Island.

The Lower Derwent Valley NNR comprises a series of flood meadows, pastures, woodlands and waterways supporting a rich diversity of plant species and outstanding populations of breeding and wintering birds. (Source: Natural England leaflet)