Hit the Road Jack

Do you remember that song?   It seems what I do rather often and today is no exception.  Just half an hour and it's time to leap into that trusty Golf and head to the airport where the chaps in Secure AirParks seem to know me reasonably well! 

Unfortunately there are no direct flights from Scotland to Seville so it's that same old story of flying to London and then hanging around.   I'll be leaving just after 8 this morning but don't land in Spain until 10 past 7 this evening.   And when I get home people ask if I had a nice holiday!!!!

But it should be an interesting trip.  Tour leader Fergus Crystal will be meeting me and tomorrow morning we head up to an area of Extremadura about 1 1/2 hours north of Seville - think we have to arrive by 8.30 a.m. (repeat comment about nice holiday).   Fergus spends 5 months of the year out there working on a Montagu's Harrier conservation project in a really rural area.  I'm hoping that we'll be able to get some involvement in that work for our clients when you/they go out next March.  We're timing the holiday early in the year so that the flowers and butterflies are at their best as well as the migrant birds arriving.   

I doubt there'll be a chance to get near a computer while I'm away - it will be fairly intensive: learning about the area, the project, inspecting hotels and looking for reliable transport and restaurants.  The latter is fun!   So I'd better stop, transfer data to the laptop and head off into the great unknown.