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

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

a melancholy ruin

Yes, it looks like its brooding.

I need to get the atlas out and see exactly where you´ve been. I love locating things on maps.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've now visited the south coast and the north coast- which leaves the vast, sparsely populated bit in the middle still to explore.