Backcountry Roads on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales
May 31, 2016. A drive along a series of twisting backcountry roads on the Isle of Anglesey in Wales. Leaving the collection of several medieval structures at Penmon, we passed […]
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Horseshoe Falls and a Hidden Church in Llangollan, Wales
The Lens-Artists Challenge this week is ‘Getting Away’, and I realize that, although the restrictions of staying in our own region of the province (BC) were lifted June 15, we […]
Wild Flower Paintings at an Outdoor Gallery in Anglesey, Wales
At North Stack on the Isle of Anglesey there is an outdoor art gallery with paintings of many local flora. The yellow wildflower ‘Common Bird’s-foot Trefoil.I had seen this earlier […]
A Trio of Tiny, Perfect Towns in Northeast Wales
May 28, Saturday. (Route map at the end of the post.) A good chat over breakfast with our landlady in Holywell sent us off for a loop drive along secondary roads that […]
Bloody Foreland and the Pass to Glenveagh National Park in Ireland
September 25. Driving on the Donegal Peninsula along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, we had problems finding a decent breakfast, went for a long walk along windswept Traemore Beach, and then […]
The City of Dieppe on France’s Opal Coast
A road trip through Northern France in a sunny June… In June hotels seemed at way more of a premium than we were used to with our ‘book-as-you-go’ travel style. […]
Spanish Food Words with Arabic Origins
When the Moors arrived in Spain in 711 C.E. they brought with them advanced agricultural methods in addition to introducing many new crops including sugar cane, rice, ginger and saffron […]
The Pier at Llandudno in Wales
The pier at Llandudno in Wales is in the tradition of great seaside holiday resorts in Britain. The white and blue wrought-iron railing of the pier looking over the headlands. […]
Grönemad on the Bohuslän Coast of Sweden
Grönemad is a tiny town along the Bohuslän Coast of Sweden, a place to stop at on our way to Grebbestad. The typical granite cliffs of the Bohuslän Coast with the […]
Old Doors in Den Gamle By in Aarhus, Denmark
Den Gamle By in Aarhus is a museum that contains several of historical ‘villages’ reconstructed from different time periods in Denmark. There are many examples of different types of old […]
