Cumbria Nature Festival
Last month we went to the Cumbria Nature Festival at Rivendell near Workington. It was very enjoyable and informative plus it’s an interesting woodland site.
Visits
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
For three weeks every March, Houston hosts the largest rodeo in the world, along with a livestock show and a fairground / carnival. We go to events like county shows and the Game Fair in the UK, but my trip there this month was my first time at any kind of state fair type event in the US, or rodeo anywhere.
The Wood of Versoix
This month I’ve visited the Bois de Versoix, a forest of about 1300 acres about two miles from the shore of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. This woodland is a working forest but also contains a nature reserve, Les Douves, with amenities for the public. In particular, there is parking near the nature reserve on the Chemin de Douves, and so it’s a good place to start.
The Little Red Cabin in Illinois
Earlier this month I was on a trip to Illinois in the US and inspired by my shepherd’s hut stay in Devon, I took the opportunity to stay in a cabin on a small farm well away from the cities. “The Little Red Cabin” is on a hobby farm just outside the town of Lena in northwest Illinois, only a few miles south of the border with Wisconsin.
It was built only a few years ago and is a timber framed building with wood siding and a corrugated metal roof. It’s very well insulated, finished to a high quality, and well thought-out.
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