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Mark Tenerife

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Hello, Mark, and a very warm welcome to The Cold Dark Room.
It's quiet in here at the moment, but will liven up shortly, i expect.
Grab an armadillo to sit on, but mind you don't sit on a hedgehog and our One-legged Leprechaun Pirate Substitute will fetch you a beverage of choice.
The Roommates are from various different countries, the UK, the USA, Germany, Denmark, Morocco, Jordan............
Tis best to send your e-mail address to members in Private Message if you wish to do so.
On the public forum you never know, the meerkats may be watching....................................
Thanks for the advise ill tru to privst message you
 

Laura1412

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Hi, Laura, nice to hear from you. :)
Sorry to here you're having a tough time, a few of the Roomies are having a rough ride at the moment.:(
Hope things improve for you soon.
thanks Adam the story is comin on great that u doin I love reading it makes my day how's u wifey n tidgy :)
 

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thanks Adam the story is comin on great that u doin I love reading it makes my day how's u wifey n tidgy :)
Another page of Esio Trot in just a little while...........
I'm very good, been a mechanic today, as you will see.:)
wifey's been sleeping, mainly and is now playing games on her phone.She helped with my photos and is fine, thanks.:D
Tidgy is still up, a bit disturbed by the little storm we had, perhaps, but is eating happily and will soon be asleep, I should expect.:<3::tort:
 

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Another page of Esio Trot in just a little while...........
I'm very good, been a mechanic today, as you will see.:)
wifey's been sleeping, mainly and is now playing games on her phone.She helped with my photos and is fine, thanks.:D
Tidgy is still up, a bit disturbed by the little storm we had, perhaps, but is eating happily and will soon be asleep, I should expect.:<3::tort:
So glad you all good clyde as settled in great and now iv got more room I'm makin his indoor enclosure bigger goin to make it 4x8 I'm just hopin it don't stress him to much with the change but I will lay the new one out very simular to this one so it's not to much change :)
 

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So glad you all good clyde as settled in great and now iv got more room I'm makin his indoor enclosure bigger goin to make it 4x8 I'm just hopin it don't stress him to much with the change but I will lay the new one out very simular to this one so it's not to much change :)
That's great news, lots of love to Clyde! :tort::<3:
He very well might take a little while to adjust, but it's all to the good. Once settled in the little fellow will love it !
 

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We ate out at the only restaurant tonight. It was good. Madame was definitely in charge. Monsieur was doing the drinks and kept disappearing into the wine store for a slug out of a bottle :D

Evening shots of the old village
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That is beautiful!!!!! What is that village??? Sorry! I gave up on keeping up with any thread anymore:( but jumping in and out is still good. Love your pictures!
 

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Good morning all...

Further Moth explanations - the Hummingbird Hawk Moth behaves like a Hummingbird. It darts from flower to flower, never landing, extending its long proboscis to feed on nectar. It's body is about an inch (2.5cm long) We see them in our garden in Kent very occasionally, but here they're "common as muck" (ie everywhere). You can't miss them! There are no Hummingbirds in Europe.
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There's also a Bee Hawk Moth - black and yellow with see-through wings - that behaves like a bee and does land. We saw those too, but not so many. These also occur in the UK. Son is asleep so I'll steal a picture of one from the internet
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Great pics! We do have both here: hummingbirds and the "hummer-moths" both totally awesome!
 

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Good evening all ... and welcome @Mark Tenerife (My uncle lives on Tenerife :) )

We collected daughter from Perpignan airport this evening without incident and are currently mellowing over a bottle of vin rouge :)

Today we started in Narbonne which was incredibly important in Roman times (2000 years ago)

It's a lovely old city. We started by climbing the tower on the Archbishop's Palace. The Archbishop is no longer in residence as the diocese was merged with Carcassonne in the 19th century.

It's really old... graffiti from 1792!
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View of the cathedral from the tower
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There's a story behind that too... that's only the Choir - the main bit where the congregation should sit was never completed. You can see what looks like ruins to the left, but that's as much as got built before they ran out of money... and there was the inconvenient fact that had they built the knave to plan the city wall would have had to be demolished.

View of the unfinished bit
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And this is L'horreum... a huge underground warehouse built by the Romans. They've excavated just under half of it.
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Archbishop's palace
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In the afternoon we went out to the coastal marshes (called Étangs pronounced Ay-tangs) to do a spot of bird watching.

We were rewarded by flamingoes, a snake eagle (my first) and coypu (really big rodents known locally as ragondin)... and I don't have decent photos of any of them! You'll have to believe me that the whitish blobs are flamingoes in the salt pans. (They collect sea salt for the table here)

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That is beautiful!!!!! What is that village??? Sorry! I gave up on keeping up with any thread anymore:( but jumping in and out is still good. Love your pictures!
Hello, there Cousin!
Nice to see you! :)
Good evening all ... and welcome @Mark Tenerife (My uncle lives on Tenerife :) )

We collected daughter from Perpignan airport this evening without incident and are currently mellowing over a bottle of vin rouge :)

Today we started in Narbonne which was incredibly important in Roman times (2000 years ago)

It's a lovely old city. We started by climbing the tower on the Archbishop's Palace. The Archbishop is no longer in residence as the diocese was merged with Carcassonne in the 19th century.

It's really old... graffiti from 1792!
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View of the cathedral from the tower
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There's a story behind that too... that's only the Choir - the main bit where the congregation should sit was never completed. You can see what looks like ruins to the left, but that's as much as got built before they ran out of money... and there was the inconvenient fact that had they built the knave to plan the city wall would have had to be demolished.

View of the unfinished bit
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And this is L'horreum... a huge underground warehouse built by the Romans. They've excavated just under half of it.
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Archbishop's palace
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WOW ! ! !
I went to Narbonne when I was a child but had forgotten how beautiful it is.
The cathedral is breathtaking! ! ! :<3:
And I hope they arrested those graffiti vandals. ;)
Most splendid stuff !
 

Tidgy's Dad

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In the afternoon we went out to the coastal marshes (called Étangs pronounced Ay-tangs) to do a spot of bird watching.

We were rewarded by flamingoes, a snake eagle (my first) and coypu (really big rodents known locally as ragondin)... and I don't have decent photos of any of them! You'll have to believe me that the whitish blobs are flamingoes in the salt pans. (They collect sea salt for the table here)

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Same happened here on the last voyage to Spain, saw flamingoes on the salt marshes in north-west Morocco, but wifey asleep, so no photo. :(
 

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So glad you all good clyde as settled in great and now iv got more room I'm makin his indoor enclosure bigger goin to make it 4x8 I'm just hopin it don't stress him to much with the change but I will lay the new one out very simular to this one so it's not to much change :)

Good evening Laura. I think your Clyde will love his new, bigger enclosure. You are a great tort mummy !
 

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Good evening all ... and welcome @Mark Tenerife (My uncle lives on Tenerife :) )

We collected daughter from Perpignan airport this evening without incident and are currently mellowing over a bottle of vin rouge :)

Today we started in Narbonne which was incredibly important in Roman times (2000 years ago)

It's a lovely old city. We started by climbing the tower on the Archbishop's Palace. The Archbishop is no longer in residence as the diocese was merged with Carcassonne in the 19th century.

It's really old... graffiti from 1792!
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View of the cathedral from the tower
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There's a story behind that too... that's only the Choir - the main bit where the congregation should sit was never completed. You can see what looks like ruins to the left, but that's as much as got built before they ran out of money... and there was the inconvenient fact that had they built the knave to plan the city wall would have had to be demolished.

View of the unfinished bit
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And this is L'horreum... a huge underground warehouse built by the Romans. They've excavated just under half of it.
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Archbishop's palace
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WOW!!!! :eek: You go to the most amazing places!!! :)
 

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