Well its now September and for me that means that I’m back to work, doing my real job 🙁 and hence looking forward to that next holiday of mine – the October half term. But that seems so long away, but at least there are a few things to look forward to over the next few weeks, first up is Pyranha Fest, and not long after that is the annual BCU student safety weekend up in North Wales.
After the first quick trip to Europe with Dave, I went back again with 2 of my long term students, Cath and Jim Hill. I have worked with them on a range of UK rivers, but never had they had the experience of kayaking abroad. We randomly met up with three students, Rob, Katy and Jon, from Lancaster Uni, who were travelling around Europe for the summer in a big red van just going boating. This lucky meeting allowed us as a group to paddle a whole range of rivers far quicker, as otherwise we would have been having to try and hitch lifts etc. The series of photos below were taken in Austria and Switzerland during the second week in August.
