Back from holidays

Just returned from 2 week's holidaying in the South West of England. We explored some classic English landscapes, wildlife and historic sites.

Here's the itinerary:

• Wiltshire

Avebury, Silbury Hill and Stonehenge, Salisbury cathedral and chalk downs. Got close views of buzzards and found a slow worm.

Silbury Hill

• Dorset

Cerne Abbas, Maiden Castle
Corfe Castle
The Jurassic Coast - Arne RSPB reserve, Durdle Door and Chesil Beach. Nine Kestrels in one spot near Abbotsbury.
Lyme Regis

Durdle Door

• Devon

Dawlish and the Teign and Exe estuaries - buzzards mobbing a peregrine falcon
Dartmoor and Hay Tor - ponies, newts and ravens

• Cornwall

The coast around Padstow, mackeral fishing, body boarding in the surf with my brother's family and Rick Stein's bistro.

Constantine Beach

• Oxfordshire

Staying with friends on the way home - the Fosse way and Rollright stones.

Part of the King's Men group, Rollright stones