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

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Wales isn't exactly remote, but it's different. One thing you notice immediately is how all the road signs are bilingual. Flint is only an hour's drive from where we live but feels like a foreign country.

[mummm.livejournal.com]

You have certainly enlarged my outlook!