Chamron Agata de Fuego won the 30km at Tinwald on Sunday. Ceilidh (Balmoral Sport x Chamfron Chipita) is starting to look like a proper horse and will be two in July. Chamfron Colorado is channelling his inner pack pony ready for their next camping trip.
Chamfron Stud
Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Saturday, 26 April 2025
Keep Moving Week 17 (Part 2)
A last day wandering around Naples on Tuesday including another trip under Naples, La Neapolis Sotterrata, a very different tour with Greek and Roman marketplace ruins that were excavated twenty five years ago. Then back to Edinburgh and plodding along the railway line!
Monday, 21 April 2025
Keep Moving Week 17 (Part 1)
Three seperate trips underground in Naples; we did the Catacombs of San Gennaro and San Gaudioso and the Underground tour. All very different, San Gaudioso has a gallery where desiccated heads are attached to the walls with portraits frescoed around them and a Frankenstein skeleton where every bone belonged to a different person. San Gennaro was larger and more impressive and comes with the history of San Gennaro's "Miracle of the Blood" - three times a year an ampule of the Saints blood is brought out to see if it will liquify, more often than not it does. When it doesn't it is a warning sign of disasters to come - Covid pandemic, severe earthquake, World War 2 and the last erruption of Vesuvius in 1944. The Underground Naples tour takes you forty metres down in to the Greek aqueducts and tells you how they were used to save lives as shelters in World War 2. Some very narrow dark tunnels to navigate, you wouldn't want to have indulged in too many pizzas or Tiramisu!
Sunday, 20 April 2025
Saturday, 19 April 2025
Keep Moving Week 16 (Part 3)
On Friday we did more walking around Naples as far as the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium, everything seems super sized, churches, castles... shopping centres! On Saturday we took the metro to Herculanium. Now for roman ruins I think you are either Team Pompei or Team Herculaneum and without a shadow of a doubt we were the latter. Peaceful atmosphere, lovely staff and so much more that was easily seen. When we returned we popped into the Church of Santa Lucia and saw the "skull with ears". Finished our sightseeing with a "Maradona Spritz!"
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