We went out before breakfast to look at the town

Our guest house

House next door

Church

Shrine

Farmhouse

with bikes

Love this building

Wooden bridge

The river

3 trees

A group of birds

Pump

Art

The smaller wooden bridge

Church

Indian bean tree - Catalpa bignonioides

Art

Church

Graffiti - this does not enlarge

Canon

Hemerocallis fulva

It was good to have some muesli for breakfast plus  fresh raspberries and drinking yoghurt.

We went to an area where the butterflies were flitting around in the trees and bushes.  

Betonica officinalis

Meadow brown -  Maniola jurtina male

Silver washed fritillary

Common blue damselfly

Nine-spotted moth

Lesser butterfly orchid

Paris quadrifolia

White admiral

Orthetrum cancellatum

Monkey flower - mimulus guttatus

Managed forest on the right of the path, virgin forest below completely untouched always.   The mosquitoes defended the area with dedication...

Moor frog

Field of betony

Frangula alnus - alder buckthorn food plant of the brimstone butterfly

Brimstone female on betony

Tiger moth

We enjoyed chasing masses of butterflies around a gravelled area.   I missed lots of opportunities

Purple emperor

Brimstone male

Purple emperor

Purple emperor

We had a delicious lunch at a castle beautifully restored by the local people

The Castle

Outer entrance

Entrance

Stairs

Glass from an exhibition

Glass

Lecture room

The courtyard

There was artwork by professionals and local children whose pictures depicted dragons

Hopefully by France Slana

We visited an area where Slovene varieties of apple are being conserved and sold around the country.

Bug homes

Sweet william

Marbled white on knapweed

We had our last meal with a pudding and came home for an early night

Up at 04.00 to drive to Venice for the plane to Leeds.   Dropped off Ann and Jim and went on to Marco Polo where the rest of us had lunch and waited for our plane to Gatwick.   Some delays;  don't you just love the French traffic controllers...   We got home about 17.30.