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After only being home from Euro travels for two days I was off again with Melanie to Tenby in Welsh Wales via Twigworth near Gloucester.

I found a nice parking spot right outside the hotel in Tenby. On the second day I came back to find an infestation of wasps.

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tomorrow we are off to Llandudno.

Here we are in a very sunny Llandudno where they have a Victorian extravaganza weekend going on. All I can say is it's bloody brilliant.

Here is a non bike related photo of the George Formby appreciation society doing their thing.

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There is a fantastic atmosphere and everyone is having a great time.

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Hee-hee! Turned out nice! :thumb:


Sorry - I'll get my coat...


Technically they're not wasps - Vespa being the genus of the hornet rather than the wasp, which is Vespula.


Sorry (again) - the pedantic entomologist has now left the building.

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You are quite right and some of them were Lambrettas, so nothing to do with wasps or hornets, I used poetic license.

Also for you edification vespa is wasp in Italian the land of the Vespa and Lambrettas birth.

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Also for you edification vespa is wasp in Italian the land of the Vespa and Lambrettas birth.

 

I know. :wink:


Whilst we're on foreign entomology...


Entomologists use a little suction device called a pooter to collect insects. It's just two pieces of tube poking through the lid of a pot, one with mesh on the end. Stick the open end near the insect, suck the mesh end, and the insect lands in the pot.


I once led a field trip of Brazilian entomologists in a forest, and told them they had to bring plenty of pooters with them because I'd got through so many of them, either wearing them out or just losing them. I thought they looked appalled, and it wasn't until someone told me that 'puta' was Portuguese for 'prostitute' that I realised why.


:oops:

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I was in Tenby last weekend too!


Went for the scooter rally. I didn't go on my Triumph, I rode down from Durham on my scooter...... 719 miles round trip .... :shock:


It was a good rally and great weather made it all the better.

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I was in Tenby last weekend too!


Went for the scooter rally. I didn't go on my Triumph, I rode down from Durham on my scooter...... 719 miles round trip .... :shock:


It was a good rally and great weather made it all the better.

 

719 miles round trip on a scooter. I take it you left on Monday and only got back home today?

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I was in Tenby last weekend too!


Went for the scooter rally. I didn't go on my Triumph, I rode down from Durham on my scooter...... 719 miles round trip .... :shock:


It was a good rally and great weather made it all the better.

 

719 miles round trip on a scooter. I take it you left on Monday and only got back home today?

 

No, approximately 9 to 10 hours each way, with stops etc. Rode down on the Friday and back up to Durham on the Sunday.

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