Trip to La Brenne

Aargh, too much going on and just realised that I haven't written anything on here about my trip to La Brenne last month. Incredible place, felt how I imagine the English countryside of the 1930s to have been, quiet country lanes, flower-filled lanes, butterflies and nightingales galore.... Highlights? European Pond Tortoises of course, especially meeting one on a track as it headed back to the water after egg-laying. Going up in a tiny plane with an 85-year-old pilot was merveilleux! Watching a male nightjar churring away as he sat on a branch silhouetted against the night sky was hard to beat. Plus the wonderful female large copper Tony Williams found for me ten minutes before we left. She'd just emerged and was drying off before taking her maiden flight, totally formidable! That's French formidable, not British formidable...