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Comparing photos my common sense guess would be non-breeding adult Mediterranean gull. Characteristics it seems to have in common are red legs, mostly white with gray wings and back and a dark spot behind the eye with a black tip to the red-orange bill.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_gull
Nice how Rachael's bike with the GoPro was perfectly positioned to record the transfer of the other bike over the barriers on both ends.
4 years agoDon’t get me wrong here. We’ve gone through our own share of broken mirrors too, but this is the first time for losing one in this specific way. Usually we lose them when they work loose and fall out, or snap off when a poorly rested bike topples to the ground. I’ve tried helmet mirrors too,but don’t care for them. I’ll just keep buying new ones as needed. We’ve got a spare on this tour, uselessly waiting for us in our suitcase down in Puglia.
4 years agoSounds like a plan, Mr. Anderson. Tail winds.
4 years agoThat plan is so yesterday’s news. We’re not doing that any more. The new, improved plan is to bike up the Po for as far as we can until the weather gets too cold and wet, and then catch a train south to Puglia. Tomorrow we’re heading to the Po Delta for a couple of days, and then we’ll start biking up the big river.
4 years agoYes. It was great to watch that stage with all of the huge posters of Pantani along the way. Really enjoying your trip. Looks like you are headed to Assisi and Perugia. Sue and I were there on a tour years ago. Jealous that you're going to get to see them during the off season. Both of them, wonderful places.
4 years agoKipling wittingly worked words which into our wits... Sorry, "alliterally," that's 'bout the best I can bring.
4 years agoI’m surprised by that. I remember your French tour, and that you visited many of the same places Rachael and I did one year. I don’t remember seeing them there.
4 years agoNice to know! I too took Latin in my non-Catholic high school, I think in tenth grade. I was treasurer of the Latin club, and wore a gold-trimmed toga to the club party. I haven’t thought of that in many years. I suspect this was one of the last years it was still taught there.
4 years agoIt might amuse you to know that Al's cycling "club" calls itself Veni Velo Vici. At least some of them are old enough (and British enough) that they took Latin in school.
4 years agoI first saw them in Kerala, India, where they were called "Portuguese fishing nets". Flash forward a few decades and I saw many more in France, along the Gironde estuary and other places on or near the Atlantic coast.
4 years agoJust so. Makes me think of ‘the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees’.
4 years agoHe's just gray, not great, like they are...
But hanging in the background makes it easier for him to blend.
No, I missed the heron. How great! He looks like he’s trying to blend in, going incognito.
4 years ago
Seems to check the ID points for blackthorn.
4 years agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prunus_spinosa