2019

Lanyon Quoit

Atmospheric Cornwall

There’s no doubt in my mind that Cornwall is a place like nowhere else in the UK, and part of this is because the strange artifacts of our ancestors are left about to view and marvel at. What exactly is the Mên-an-Tol? What use did it have? Why isn’t there another one, somewhere else? [EXIF: […]

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Open to the winds

Three Castles – three people

A summer project of “Castles” set by our U3A Photography Group to supplement the overall Welsh U3A photography challenge of “Castles” took Marilyn, Len and me to the Three Castles in Monmouthshire. We started at Skenfrith – which was a bit overcast and a little dull photographically as well; had an expensive lunch at The

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View from  Roman Aqueduct, Spello

Umbrian miscellany

A selection of images, ranging from building work in process in Trevi – with the disregarded poster, ardent tourists looking at Roman inscriptions in Spoleto, a hat shop and flowers in front of a ristorante in Assisi to a pair of geckos on Isola Maggiore, Lago Trasimeno. Also some images depicting elements of Umbria’s history

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Historic Umbria

It goes with saying that this area of Italy is rich in history from the Romans to the Etruscans, and more. I’m no expert! Here are just a few images and the story behind them. Above you can see the Ponte delle Torri near Spoleto which I thought to be a viaduct but I now know

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