"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years." - Abraham Lincoln
My assignment was done, and I had arranged a few days off, so headed up to Liverpool to be in the city for the Champions League final, between the Redmen and Spurs. A friend had kindly given me tickets to watch the game in an indoor seated arena on the V&A Waterfront. Of course the […]
Summer time in England is magnificent and working in a home where the garden has been well thought out and constantly tended, results in a lot of satisfaction for me on my break. Armed with my camera and macro lens, I spent my break outdoors almost every day, with a few long walks inbetween! “You […]
Back at work in Wiltshire, client had agreed to let me use the car one afternoon and a fellow carer, who is also very handy with a camera, had previously been to the local bluebell forests, so after lunch that’s where we headed. “Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.” […]
We packed up early and left for Llandudno. It was our last day of holiday and we were taking full advantage of the long days. It wasn’t a long drive, and once there, we managed to find parking very near to the historic Great Orme Tramway station. The town of Llandudno is the largest seaside […]
Driving to Anglesey from Conwy, the weather turned very wet, so no stops were made along the way, and by the time we got there, we were looking for jackets, gloves and beanies! Definitely not the right weather to be wandering around in the heather, but wander we did! Anglesey an island off the north-west […]
We were only in Conwy for a day, so headed straight to the castle. Conwy is a walled market town on the north coast built between 1283 and 1289, lived in by the English invaders, while the Welsh locals stayed outside the confines of the walls. People born within the town walls of Conwy are nicknamed “Jackdaws”, after the […]
The trip to Conwy was a mixture of wet & dry, with a few pit stops in between. The scenery however stayed either gorgeous or stunning. Leaving Blaenavon, we stopped off at what I would have called a small dam or lake, but here it’s known as a pond. Built around 1824 to supply additional […]
Blaenavon, in southeast Wales, is built primarily on a hillside with parts of the town and surrounding country forming the Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, recorded as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000. The town, literally meaning “front of the river” or loosely “river’s source” in the Welsh language, grew around an ironworks opened in 1788; and was of crucial importance in the development […]
We left Paul’s Stroud lodgings early, and hit the road. Other than knowing the name of the town, neither of us knew where we were headed, although Paul had been in Blaenavon a few times for work, but not near to where we were heading. The journey took us through some stunning areas and beautiful […]
A friend from the ad industry had come over to settle in the UK and we made a plan to have a catch up while I was on leave. We met up about half way between our respective homes, and as the weather didn’t look great didn’t do much walking around. What little we did […]
