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From up on high

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I returned from a long weekend in Spain yesterday, an anniversary trip to Malaga with my wife.

The trip was nice, although the weather was very hot and, on the last couple of days, humid too! I guess this is what we get for having gotten married in August and then expecting to take an anniversary trip to a warm county to coincide with the same time of year…

We enjoyed ourselves though, ate a lot of nice food, and took plenty of (somewhat hot and sticky) walks. Malaga was very busy while we were there as it was the final two days of the Feira de Malaga – an annual festival where there is lots of live music, entertainment, and thousands of people walking around the streets drinking Cartojal, a sweet wine from the region.

There will be lots of pictures to come from the trip – I’ve just sent off four full rolls of 35mm to be developed today, so that will be a lot of images to choose from!

I also shot quite a lot of digital pictures while there and thought I’d post a few of those today.

This post is all aerial shots taken from the plane on the way to Malage, and on the journey home to the UK. They are not likely to win any prizes, but though they might be ineteresting to post and have a bit of a theme to them.

A bit of detective work on Google maps has allowed me to identify the locations of the pictures, although some were obvious anyway and I knew what they were as we flew past. There are not may pictures from the outbound journey as the weather was pretty cloudy, so just the first three shots are from that flight.

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Estacion de Cartama (about ten miles north of Malaga)
From up on high
Santa Rosalina. Just a little south of the previous picture.
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Real Guadalhorce Club de Golf. This is just north of Malaga airport and we were very close to touch down. I like that you can see tiny people playing golf.
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On the flight home now. Looking east towards the city of Malaga. Roughly in the centre of the image is a small-looking hill. This is where the Castillo de Gibralfaro sits. We climbed to the top of this one day. It’s much higher than you might imaging from this distant view!
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Climbing over the coast heading south over the Mediterranean before turning back north. Malaga to the east with the port visible.
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Now heading north and looking west towards Malaga. The port is still visible, as is (jus!) the hill where the castle sits.
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Heading inland now, Malaga no longer in sight. This agricultural valley lies to the east of Estacion de Carma, which can be seen in the middle of the frame.
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Much higher now, with the town of Loja in the cetre of the image with the River Genil flowing through.
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Another river, this time the River Guadalquivir, with the village of Villa del la Reina on its southern bank and the town of Andujar further distant.
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We’re now flying east of Madrid. Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport can be seen centre right, and both football stadiums are also visible – Atletico Madrid’s most prominently right in the centre of the frame, but Real Madrid’s ground can also be seen in the full resolution shot.
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Leaving Spain now and heading out over the Bay of Biscay and into France. The port of Bilbau is prominent at the bottom of the frame, and the city of Santander further to the west.
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Over France just north of Saint Nazaire with Quiberon Bay visible in the frame. The window had some external frost on it for a while, so exuse the image quality.
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The Sain Malo estuary is the prominent feature in this image.
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The Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey sit topped with clouds out in the English Channel.
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The northern tip of Normandy, with the port of Cherbourg in the distance. We would have been flying a few miles north of Utah Beach, one of the D-Day landing sites from WWII at this point.
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And now we’re back over the United Kingdom (or England if yoy want to be specific), with the full expanse of the Isle of White in view.
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A minute or two later, we’re over The Solent and about to fly over the British mainland.
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The A1, one of the countries main north-south routes, is clearly visible here near the village of Willoughby on the Wolds.
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Over East Leake. Not far to go now.
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The final aerieal shot of the trip, with the village of Sutton Bonnington below. We touched down shortly after.

So, something a little different today. I hope you’ve enjoyed the virtual travellogue. 🙂

Ricoh GR III

Taken on 18 August 2023 (first three images) and 22 August 2023