Andy Rodker's photos

Taken from Godrevy Point at low tide..

The largest Plaza Mayor in Spain. I waited for ages for the guy in the pink shirt to shuffle off but he must have used up a whole reel of film! Mind you, there was probably a guy behind me ,,,

View from the ridge, dead tree, and the Convento San Antonio is just visible below.

Atlantic meets granite.

I have just watched Spain beat Italy 3:0 in a World Cup qualifier on TV tonight, Spain playing quite wonderful football. It reminded me of this night in 2012 in a bar near where I then lived, watching Spain beat Italy in the final of the European Championships. Spain had been on a long winning run as the best team in the world and the fans seemed rather nonchalant by then. I was more excited by the terrific football I had witnessed in 2012 than they were. 5 years later and with some exciting new players, maybe the interest is coming back! The chap in the Pique shirt was obviously a Catalan interloper! Today, he might be in danger of a lynching. (If unsure, please ask me privately!).

Still snow on the highest peaks in June. Full screen, please.

The path from the main car park descends to the town. For those who would prefer not to walk back up, there is a frequent bus service. In the mid distance, the harbour. In the far distance, Godrevy Lighthouse. Best on full screen.

An arresting sight! And a deeply unpleasant one, to my mind! Window seen in Mogarraz, Salamanca Province.

Probably uninhabited. There are many properties like this in the villages of rural Spain. Here, in Mogarraz, not so many as it is a touristy place.

Gurnard's Head, Zennor, Cornwall, Looking landwards. Full screen please.

Ruins of a Celto-Ibero village can be found in the small valley below. Shot taken from Cerro de La Cabeza.

Sunflowers in a field near Sebulcor, Segovia Province.

Well a fence after a fashion, but definitely a fence! Reskajeage, Cornwall. The sloping path on the cliff opposite is the path to Fishing Cove, the officially designated nudist beach. The path is FAR easier than it looks from here!

Yes, my Mum's garden again, from a different angle this time!

An image from early Spring (March). Madrid Province.

The old route got washed away in a mudslide. This new one was kicked in and roped sometime between 2012 and 2014. It is perfectly safe (although I concede that maybe if you are a zimmer-frame user ...)

El Cancho de La Bola, Sierra de La Cabrera, haunt of vultures though few to be seen that day.

Sierra de La Pedriza, Spain. I think this farm is still worked, the roof has been repaired recently - but who farms here and what they farm, is a complete mystery to me. Suggestions welcome! (I have already dismissed granite as the crop ... but really, there isn't anything else!), There were no goats, nor horses and although the next farm along the trail a couple of miles away had about 100 beehives, nothing of the sort was in evidence here.