Opening lyric from Neil Young seems appropriate for the day after my birthday! The second year running I’ve been abroad on my birthday. I had a delightful day in the sunshine. We had gone for an early breakfast because I was off birding. Suddenly the whole hotel staff came out singing to our table with a bottle of champagne. It is a lovely family run hotel right in the centre of Funchal old town.<\/p>\n
Birding was good it was only me with the guide and driver. Had good spots of the endemics of Maderia. I also enjoyed seeing their Firecrest and the charismatic Waxbills. This was followed by watching Martimo who play in the Portuguese top flight. I got very hot sitting in the sun. The only blemish on that was the Luton result\u00a0 came through and we lost.<\/p>\n
Clare and I had a wonderful meal to finish a great day. She had given me Neil Gaiman’s book the retelling of the Norse Myths which I am really looking forward to reading and hopefully extending my telling repertoire.<\/p>\n
I’ll maybe add a picture when I get home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Opening lyric from Neil Young seems appropriate for the day after my birthday! The second year running I’ve been abroad on my birthday. I had a delightful day in the sunshine. We had gone for an early breakfast because I … Continue reading