Season 6

Flat Island - Ships' Graveyard Flat Island (‘ Yassi Ada ’ in Turkish) lies 16NM south-east of Leros, in the channel between the Greek Islands and the Turkish Bodrum Peninsula. Missy Bear regularly sails up the same channel heading home from Kos and all places further south. The tiny, low island is a ships’ graveyard. For example, in the summer of 626 AD, an Eastern Roman (Byzantine) cargo ship hit the reef there and sank in 30m of water. It was small merchant sailboat. It had

Migrating birds It’s January in France and the mornings are very dark. It was only two degrees this morning, and densely foggy. The ground is saturated, and mountain biking can be slow and muddy work in the valley bottoms. Now is opportunity to light the log fire, curl up and read, and to ponder life some more. As I write in the warmth, I am watching a feeding-frenzy as a host of great tits and blue tits rapidly empty the feeder of sunflower seeds outside on the balcony. The