For my second post in the occasional Earth & Sky series, I bring you a travel memory which has only the flimsiest of cosmic connections – but it caused me to do a double-take among the sandstone structures of Salamanca…..read on…..
Even as you sit on your sofa this festive season, planning your 2017 assorted trips and adventures, you’re already on a most spectacular journey…..
It was almost midnight, one night midway through the 2nd week of August. Most sensible folk were heading for restful slumber, but me? Armed with flask and red-light torch, and sporting umpteen layers of clothing, I was about to join a car-full of people I didn’t know very well on a foray into the West Sussex countryside.
This weekend sees me returning to the great outdoors for my first Solarsphere Festival experience. It’s part of a growing trend in astrotourism activities and events around the world and I’m excited to be visiting a part of Wales (Builth Wells) I don’t know and combining 3 of my favourite things; travel, astronomy and music.
What you think