We were part of a group of 12 that went to Cuba in late January 2014 on a bird and butterfly trip organised and led by Josele Saiz who founded the Boletas Birdwatching Centre based in the Spanish Pyrenees.
We used a local company, Ashanti African Tours, for a trip to Ghana which had a strong emphasis on butterflies but also took in the birds and other wildlife including the must-see Yellow-headed Picathartes.
This was a trip to the Vercors region of France in June/July 2017 with a group of friends from the Bedfordshire Natural History Society. It was organised by ‘Wildlife Travel’ which is associated with the Wildlife Trusts.
This exclusive, three week trip in October/November 2017 was arranged for us by Richard Parsons of Bellavista Cloud Forest Lodge in Ecuador. Our guide for the entire trip was Gustavo Canas.
We went to Bosnia-Herzegovina with a group of friends from the Bedfordshire Natural History Society. The trip was organised and led by Denis Bohm of ‘Wild Herzegovina’.
We visited Churchill in Canada in November 2015 to see the Polar Bears gathering in autumn in anticipation of the sea ice forming. The trip was arranged by the American company “Natural Habitat Adventures”