Travelling North

Remi had warned that today was a long traveling day, and he wasn't wrong. In fact, it turned out to be just short of 11 hours, including the lunch stop and two photo stops. Gideon, our driver, was amazing, seemingly taking it all in his stride.

You can see the typical views as we traveled the miles, which seemed to be very repetitive, but things did change over time ... slightly.

All of a sudden and not too long after we had left the hotel, we parked up near an old and deserted house. We stayed around half an hour trying to capture the scene - this phone photo is pretty much the same as I took with my camera.

The next stop was for lunch at a surprisingly nice restaurant. I'm not meaning to be rude, it's just that after traveling for ages it was surprising to find a very pleasant place to eat lunch. In contrast, the waitress was surprisingly below par, being rather grumpy and none of us could fathom out why - perhaps it was just a bad day for her, we decided. Whatever, lunch was nice then we continued the journey.

You will see the old car as one of the photos in this footprint and this seems quite common, to use old vehicles to adorn a location. It seems a bit weird at first (I thought) but actually, I think it works really well.

Time was moving along so the planned sunset photo shoot looked as though we would not make the location in time, but all was in hand as Remi knew of a location we could be to capture the sunset.When we arrived, the location looked promising as long as the cloud on the western horizon behaved itself, so fingers crossed then.Read more