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Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Isle of Anglesey » Beaumaris January 29th 2024

If you are going to go anywhere you might as well try to build in a few things to the trip to make it worthwhile . We drove back down the narrow toll road arriving back at the parking near to the toll booth. The rather large young lad was out again. In between catching motorists and charging them to drive the toll road he was talking to what must have been locals . I did not envy his job sitting on a cold day in a shed . It could be miserable, wet and lonely . He would need to see three cars an hour to make up his hourly wage . I doubted he would see many through the day in the middle of winter . We parked up and headed for the medieval ... read more
Loosely you could call these steps
Pigeon nesting holes
Penmon Church

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Isle of Anglesey » Beaumaris January 26th 2024

The car with no name needed a trip out . We had tried earlier in the week to get over to Anglesey. Ynys Mon - a smallish island about one hour and forty five minutes drive from home. The home known as the mother of Wales and home to the Druids pushed back over the years. But that was thousands of years ago. The A55 North Wales Expressway runs from near where we live and we can join just south of Chester and travel right along the coast with the Irish Sea to one side and pretty welsh villages and towns to the other . There is always a lot of traffic on the Expressway as it runs from east to west taking traffic from and to the port of Holyhead and then on to or ... read more
Trinity House cottages
How true
Beaumaris




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