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Walled City
Drove from Llandudno to Chester one of the best examples left of a Roman fortified city. We walked around the upper part of the original wall and stood on the look out for the main gates over the original bridge into Chester, it has a weir running beneath it and was very picturesque . Followed the wall to other gates and features including a Roman garden beside the wall, there was a young children's ...
Final thoughts
... did use his indicators! Never experienced such chaotic driving - definitely not the AC causing a dry mouth!
We met a French woman who is working as a volunteer teacher in a Carmelite orphanage - we've never seen so many schools and the children wear the most stunning uniforms - 100% literacy in Kerala - and incidentally great internet connectivity - always full coverage - not like Anglesey!
Having survived four weeks (almost) without any "toilet issues", Phil ...
Just a map pin
Gracia, Sant Roc, Sants, Santa Tecla, La Merce – apparently 5 Catalan festivals weren't enough for us this year. We usually go away for my birthday for a few days and this year Julie found a Festa Major in the small town of Altafulla, on the coast just north east of Tarragona with castellers on my birth date. A chance to see a new part of Catalunya and do some birding too. Read ...
Hail to the Bunting
... either on the road, in the verge or in the hedgerows. Probably thousands. Redwings formed the bulk of them, then Fieldfares, Blackbirds and Mistle Thrushes. There were also finches and possibly buntings too, although it was mainly too dark to tell. I had to slow down several times to avoid crushing birds that seemed too tired to fly away under my tyres.
I finally found the track to the Ringstead Down reserve just after sunrise. I’d seen it once before ...
Another local village & Oakengates Theatre
I used to live in the new town built around Madeley, a Victorian mining village. Now the old-fashioned shops are replaced by a lifeless supermarket.
We went to a performance of Much to Do About Wenlock, an entertaining play loosely based on the founding of the modern Olympiad by a local doctor, concerned about his patients' health.
Afterwards, our young friend tried on some of the masks used in the performance in neighbouring Oakengates.
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