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[byslantedlight]

Okay, I'm going to try and be a bit brief for the second post today, cos I'm sure you'd appreciate the change... *g* So - my favourite highlights:

Welsh cemetery creep

(I stopped cos the cemetery was in the middle of nowhere and said it was War Graves Commission, but I couldn't see any. I did find many tombstones for "Sister...", three to a gravestone, so presumably there's a nunnery nearby.) I was somewhat disturbed by the way bare earth was spilling over onto the pathways...!

Pentre Ifan burial chamber

It's Neolithic, about 5500 years old, stripped down to the stone. (Hmmn, what is it with places of the dead in Wales?!)

View while driving north


Much disappointment

But I fell in love with the Corres Craft Centre anyway. I'm going to make myself a stool. *g* (Well, not for a while, but I'm going to *g*)

Did you know every oak tree begins with a star? *g*

(Click it bigger to see...)

A beach...

...and a bagpiper. *g* It was lovely - I suddenly heard pipes, and when I looked around an old chap in full dress was walking down to the beach with a little girl who had her hands over her ears! When they got there, she began playing on the rocks, and he began playing the pipes, and it was lovely to hear against the waves.

Sunset over the mountains...

...and sunset over the sea. I had time for both! (And beneath that sea is a submerged forest - only visible at very low tide, but there...)

And now I am very tired indeed, and I've not even read my flist yet! Maybe if I'm up early tomorrow I can catch up... How're you all doing, though?

Comments

[loxleyprince.livejournal.com]

Shame about King Arthur's Labyrinth, but Yay!!! for the Corres Craft Centre! I love the idea that every oak tree begins with a star :-) And you saw sheep! (Not coloured ones, sadly, but still - sheep!) Be wary of Welsh sheep on misty mountainsides though - they have a nasty habit of leaping off the mountainside into the path of oncoming traffic without any warning (and absolutely no hand signals.) The sooner someone invents a day-glow gene for Welsh sheep - the better...

Pretty sunset, bizarre piper-on-the-beach (although I'm sure his neighbours are enormously grateful that he practises there and not at home,) and RESULT on the YHA room! Ta for posting all the pretty pictures, dear, and for sharing your holiday with us. :-)

[miwahni.livejournal.com]

Bagpipes on the beach would be just magical. (eta: his wife probably sent him out of the home - I'm giggling at the thought now!) And everything is so pretty and peaceful! (well except for the bagpipes *g*).
Why is that bare earth trying to sneak out of the cemetary? That's a bit weird....

[(Anonymous)]

somewhat disturbed by the way bare earth was spilling over onto the pathways...!

Moles...?

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Such a lovely tour. Thanks! But what exactly is Arthur's Labyrinth?

Oh, and I love the idea of bagpipes on the beach! I love bagpipe, anyway, but hearing them on the beach would be magical. Lovely sunset over the water, too.

[snailbones.livejournal.com]

Fab photos, thank you so much. I'd love to know why the bagpipes on the beach... is there an amazing story there, or just a place to play without annoying his family?

[freetraveller15.livejournal.com]

Lovely sunsets and such clear skies...
And I love the story of oak trees starting with a star. I never knew!
Enjoy Wales :)

[llywela13.livejournal.com]

Bagpipers in Wales! I'm sure there's a story there.