A short road trip around the Cabo de Gata region of Southern Spain. See the full story here.

Saw a small exhibition of black and white photographs by Daren Smith ‘Yorkshire: A Land Painted Silver’ in the Dales Museum in Hawes – while over half of the images were traditional photographs of the Dales landscape, there were also some more interesting compositions that really stood out. Definitely worth having a look at – till 31st August.

Underground shorts vol 3 – watched this varied DVD of short films. Some very good, some not so good but still diverting, some pretty bad. The good ones were:

- True to form, Mark J Blackman. About a boy poisened by an old man (really good).

- A case of you, Jack Davies. About a couple having relationship problems all set in one room.

- One down, Simon Munnery. A cartoon about the two thieves on the cross after ‘you know who’ was taken down and their subsequent conversation. Very funny.

- The passenger, Adam Levine. About a Bosian Refugee who comes to live in Britain after his girlfriend is shot by British soldiers.

- Red Tale, Guillaume Touveron. About the relationship between a Parisian hooker and a mute guy.

- Crack, James Esposito. About a writer who diverts himself from his writers block by peeping at a beautiful girl next door through a crack in the wall.

Visited Halifax for a change and wandered round a very sparsely populated Piece Hall though there was lots set up for people to do, there were very few people there. The shops also seemed to be only partially occupied – however there was a show in the Gallery – Nudrat Afza and Paul Floyd Blake’s images of Park Ward – an area of Halifax. Alongside the artist’s photographs there was some engaging images from a local school. Nudrat Afza’s photographs were B&W images of Pakistani’s living in the area. Some nice shots from a good photographer. Paul Floyd Blake an ex-student of Bradford College photography course had photographed residents including people from the Caribbean – and there were some text describing people’s experience of moving to the UK – how they felt when the first arrived – one story of how on arriving one man had been taken upstairs to a cold top floor room and told this is where he would sleep. It wasn’t what he had expected on leaving the Caribbean and the reality of the UK for some of these people was far from their dreams of this new land.