North Wales

[poliphilo]

We've been in North Wales for the past couple of days. 

Here's the castle at Flint- a melancholy ruin on marshy land beside the Dee estuary. It was the first of the big castles Edward I built in his attempt to extend his empire into Wales. 



And here's the view across the estuary, with England on the horizon.

Comments

[amritarosa.livejournal.com]

Looking at your pictures of Wales (and seeing more pictures of St David's Isle of the places near their home in the Three Ginger Cats blog) makes me want to come there for a holiday. Especially in autumn. A week or two of hot-tea mornings and long walks, writing and carving through the rest of the day, meandering about...

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That sounds really nice.

Wales is overwhelmingly rural- miles and miles and miles of nothing but hills and sheep.