Tintern Abbey Chepstow

This morning we were in the town of Tintern. I wished we had more time to spend here. The town was known, until recently, for it's brass, iron and wire works. It would have been fun to look around the old furnaces and mills used in the manufacturing process.

We did, however, go across the street to the Tintern Abbey. This Abbey was started …

Forest of Dean : Magnifique parc naturel forestier , très vallonné , traversé par la rivière Wye et Severn. Ce parc se situe sur le Gloucestershire en Angleterre. De magnifiques balades, des sentiers très bien indiqués, des arboretum également. A faire en vélo ou moto car les routes sont superbes et bien entretenues.

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We left Wales using the scenic directions provided by our hosts. On our way out we stopped by the Tintern Abbey.

Tintern Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Tyndyrn) was founded by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, on 9 May 1131. It is situated in the village of Tintern, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye in Monmouthshire, which forms the border between …

A: over the Severn Ok so that was a bad cracker joke from a couple of weeks ago but we are now in Cardiff, Wales. Monday we drove through a very very wet Cotswolds to Maidenhead. On the way we drove through Stow on the Wold, The Slaughters and stopped at Bourton under water (Bourton on the water). Which was a lot different to when Troy visited a …

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Taking a week into Wales and we're getting a small taste of what it has to offer. Wales is really green beautiful rolling hills. Our early start getting the bus at 6ish in the morning was eventful with a drunk irishman singing to Alistair old Aussie songs that were way beyond our time.

Our tour group has about 20 people from everywhere …

Woke up quite early this morning (6am) got ready and had a quick cold breakfast at the Byways Inn before checking out and heading off to Stonehenge. Chas and Frank arranged a wonderful appointment for us to go into the site early, and we had the opportunity to actually walk about inside the stones! It was fantastic. We weren't allowed to actually …

We slept in today, then got ourselves organised.

We went to Monmouth and saw their bridge - it has a Norman portcullis and fortifications.

We then drove on to Raglan Castle - one of the newest castles. It was really interesting. It's so devastating that so many of these castles were destroyed by men of power. The water in the …

On our second day, I saw perhaps the most beautiful place I've ever seen in my life. And that's saying something. I was born in God's Country, and since that momentous day, I've been to some really cool places. Tintern Abbey takes first prize.Nobody wants to wake up on Monday morning. Jet lag sucks. The hotel's breakfast was good. We fill up on …

... nbsp; And that meant Tintern Abbey was free and had a woman telling traditional Welsh stories and playing Welsh songs. Anyways, Tintern Abbey is the ruins of an abbey that stood there in the middle ages up until Henry VIII decided to divorce ...

We stopped by Tintern Abbey on the way to Oxford and it was well worth the trip. This abbey was founded in 1131 on a site chosen by Norman monks for its tranquility. It functioned as an austere Cistercian abbey until it dissolution in 1536 under ...

... nbsp; got another early start on a bright sunny day and headed up the Wye Valley for a drive. First stop for the day was Tintern Abbey, on the Welsh bank of the Wye River. It was the first Cistercian (white monks) foundation in Wales and only the second ...

... and the subsequent ruins that we see today. We had such a busy day that we didn't quite make it in time to tour Tintern Abbey, but we walked all around the perimeter, and then settled for a Pims and Lemonade at the local pub, which was across the ...

... ;now we have lost some time and feeling concerned about our arrangement to meet Colin and Phyllis for lunch at 1.30 at Tintern Abbey.   Anyway when you are walking, there is not much you can do to meet deadlines, the feet only move at ...

... to Tintern. Nice conversation with bartender - crushing apple mill. 7 to get into the abbey. Stopped and did videos in Tintern Abbey and the Chepstow Castle. This is the castle mom peed in! Walked around Chepstow 2 - The first bit of the Gloucester Way - ...

... And that's saying something. I was born in God's Country, and since that momentous day, I've been to some really cool places. Tintern Abbey takes first prize.Nobody wants to wake up on Monday morning. Jet lag sucks. The hotel's breakfast was good. We ...

With the long drive back to Heathrow, I decided to take a break about 1/2 way and tour another abbey and castle. Pretty impressive ruins. ...

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We left Wales using the scenic directions provided by our hosts. On our way out we stopped by the Tintern Abbey. Tintern Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Tyndyrn) was founded by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow, on 9 May 1131. It is situated in the village of ...