More on The Village

When Wops and I got to the village it was afternoon, and still pretty busy.



We wandered around, through doorways, up and down steps, and eventually found our way to the beach. I looked for one of the huge, white bubbles, but I guess I had to try escaping before I found one, and the place was just to nice to want to escape from.



People actually live in The Village, it just didn't feel like Wales, except for the service in the cafe we tried to eat in. We did get some food, and even had to argue to pay for it, but we coped.


The above picture is of The Prisoner Shop, its actually the place where he lived, although the interior was shot in a studio somewhere. Inside the shop is every bit of memorabilia that you can imagine, from badges to DVDs, everything with the Prisoner Logo. more Prisoner stuff

Betws-y-coed, Beddgelert

We drove through some amazing scenery in the Snowdonia National Park, on the way to Betws-y-coed at first, and then onto Portmeirion.



We also went through the town of Beddgelert

The Legend of Beddgelert is a must!!

Beaumaris Castle

Wops and I explored Beaumaris Castle after our boat trip to Puffin Island.
In one of thse pictures there is Wops...




Did you spot her?

Sunset over Llanddona

One evening we had some excellent sunset scenes, but it was the time I hadn't worked out how to get my camera going so this picture was taken by Wops. We had spent quite a bit of time in a pub, playing pool, drinking and feeling like we were becoming really Welsh. And then we had to ruin it all by taking pictures of the sunset like all tourists. The above view is near a place called Llanddona.

Puffin Island

I just wanted an excuse to put up some more pix taken on my disposable cameras, of Wales and the adventures that Wops and I had...
Wops and I went on a boat trip to a very small island, famous for its birds and wild life. It is called Puffin Island, but we were too far away to see puffins clearly. We saw cormorants, guillemots, gulls and seals.



I wish I had taken this pic...

Back in Spalding

I am now back in Spalding, too late to see garden and stuff... just a quick chat and then to sleep. I got the photos from Boots, so keep watching this space, it will change as I put em up here..

I left my parents house on Anglesey at 16:30hrs and drove non-stop, except for fuel and a quick run round ASDA (Walmarts to the US peeps). I got to Spalding at about 22:00hrs..

ZZzzzzzzz...

Preview...
Wops and Sheila in The Village..
"I am not a number!!!"
"Who is number 1?"

Wops visit

I will put more pix up when I have them developed, but the one below was taken just before my cam stopped working. The camera now works again since I squeezed the thing and swore at it, but I am waiting for the rest to be developed.
I took this picture near a place called Brynsiencyn, near Foel Farm, looking across the Menai Straits towards Caernarfon. This was the start of Wops visit.


I swung the camera around and took a picture of Caernarfon Castle

You can see more detail if you click on these pix, the clouds did clear and the day had some good weather quite quickly.

Camera Probs

My camera is having another bad hair few days, it is now only taking pictures with a nasty darkness and a sort of purple hue again. After trying hard to sort it, I now have it sitting in my fridge as a last resort. So please can you all try some telepathy to get it to work again?
I have had a Dutch friend(Wops) staying with me for a few days, and have even had to resort to buying a couple of those disposable cameras. We have seen Puffin Island, explored pubs, seen sunsets to make your toes curl. We have been to Portmeirion and driven through some of the best scenery in Wales around the Snowdon National Park.
But I can't share any of this with you until I get my film developed :(
Some was not even photographed as I didn't buy a disposable cam till yesterday. At least I missed getting the Karaoke in the pub on QuickTime movie so I can't bore you with that.
Anyway... life goes on.. without a cam...

Beaumaris

I would have loved to have taken this picture, but its not mine, unfortunately.

When I was looking for a house on Anglesey, I had really got my eye on a town that I knew from a visit when I was 17yrs old. I sort of fell in love with Beaumaris then. But after hearing about some recent flooding, and also that the house prices had really shot up beyond what I was prepared to pay for a tiny terraced house, I gave up the hunt there.
But its been fun to pop in to Beaumaris and see how this nice town has changed. When I was 17, I went on holiday with a friend, Jill, and we slept in my car a lot, one night in the Anglesey Boat Company yard. It was a stoney, gravel car-park... with a view across the Menai straits, a few old boats around, lots of fishing boats..that was back in the 1970s.
Now, its so different, a shop, a garage, and yachts and more motor yachts... the rich and hope to be rich have a mooring here. I can't even be sure where the car park is now, and as for fishing boats... maybe there are a few... ?
Anglesey Boat Company now
Anglesey Boat Company in the future
Amazing how its changed...

Whenever any Brit tourist goes to the beach, we have to have ice-cream, even if the wind is blowing a gale and its pissing down with rain. I took this picture showing those mountains in background with this eyesore in-front. Beaumaris looking like any British seaside resort.

But just walk to the sea a little... turn cam to avoid the grockle stuff and I see this.

This is another view of Beaumaris, please note the George and Dragon which serves a good pint of Guinness and even has Scrumpy Jacks on draught (OK, Wops?)

Another view of the town showing the Castle at the end

Life continues...

A view from my back garden...


I am still in Wales and still having fun and enjoying it. Although I am finding time to cook a few meals for my mum and drink a few Guinnesses and even entertain the odd chatter who passes by. I am surprised that Anglesey seems to be more on the "chatters route" than Lincolnshire seems to be.
It has been a while since I did a blog, probably because I have been so concerned about my camera. I used to carry it everywhere with me, but since it stopped working... and then restarted again, I have had to be more careful. Not a great deal has happened that I could write down here, but photos would have explained some of that.
The beauty of Anglesey is certainly getting to me, especially with the weather being so good. To see the sea and mountains in sun, with a few white clouds hovering, is wonderful, and can knock depression right out of the window. But I hadn't got my bloody camera to show what I meant, also some scenes were just to vast to be able to take one shot.
Even on the dull, misty drizzly days, that cloud effects are still interesting.
I had a tour round Bangor which missed my camera, so I will have to repeat that just to take some pix. Bangor deserves a blog on its own.
Another blog I will do will be on the Menai Bridge, the scene of sand blasting and repainting that seems to be less than efficient.
So I am planning...
a few days ago, I went into Amlwch again and en route drove up Parys Mountain.

Don't you just love the Welsh lingo!.. "The original name of the area was Mynydd Trysglwyn which is thought to mean a hillside covered in a thick grove of rough trees covered with scaly lichen growth"

I have a lot more to explore around Parys Mountain.


I took this picture from the road near Parys Mountain, I am sorry, but I actually like the wind turbines that litter the countryside around this area of Anglesey. So much better than a coal fired power station or a nuclear power station... but wait!.. look closely, there is a nuclear power station in that picture too. Wylfa.

Operator: British Nuclear Fuels Ltd
Configuration: 2 X 495 MW Magnox
Operation: 1971
Reactor supplier: TNPG
T/G supplier: EE
Quick Facts: Wylfa was the last Magnox plant built.

Wylfa is only just in that photo, look to the left, on the horizon, and its there. In my days as a science teacher in Norfolk, I even had a video that explained Aluminium production that mentioned Wylfa, and Anglesey Aluminium (for another blog sometime).
Beautiful picture, but a few nasties lurk there too. Also I need to update myself, as Parys Mountain is now planning to return to producing some of its ores... so.. there could be a new gold rush here.

Here is a picture of a flower from my garden.

One of the new neeeiigghhbours that live a little way down the hill from my house.