I like big, heavy machines.  So when I saw this monster resting by the roadside I had to check it out.  Its a massive bulldozer - a Caterpillar D9N to be specific.  Weighing in at almost 50 tons and packing 370hp, this is a beast of a machine.

Today was the Adonis Rally, run through Paphos Forest in Cyprus.  I love it up there, the peace and tranquility is amazing at any time of the year.  Today was different.  The mountainsides reverberated with the roar of fast cars.

I’ve been mega busy recently, so the opportunity to get out with the camera to take some pictures was to be savoured.

Living in Cyprus, the dams don’t overflow often, so I headed for the Asprokremmos Dam, the second largest in Cyprus.

Today’s Voies Ferrées du Velay runs for 37 kilometers through the French Départments of Ardèche and Haute-Loire from Dunières to Saint Agrève.

The Chemin du Fer Blanc-Argent was a single track metre gauge cross country railway linking various lines of the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans (PO) running through the departments of Loiret, Loir-et-Cher and Indre in France.

On 28 July 1916, 82nd Field Company Royal Engineers received orders to march to Mametz Wood.  They were to take over from the 94th Field Company Royal Engineer who had just completed the construction of a 300 yard communication trench to the 57th Brigade who at the time had been cut off for 24 hours in the village of Bazentin-le-Petit.

On 14 July 1916 at 03.25 twenty thousand men of the 3rd and 7th Divisions moved forward up Caterpillar Valley to attack Delville Wood, whilst the 21st Division advanced on and captured Bazentin-le-Petit Wood.

Martinpuich British Cemetery was begun in November 1916 and used by fighting units and Field Ambulances until June 1917, and again at the end of August 1918.

An extract from the Diary of Robert Lindsay Mackay of the 11th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.