So what have we been doing the in yawning chasm since the last time we wrote? Lots of stuff, really, seeing as it's been over a year. I'll try and fill in some of the more interesting stuff in the next few posts. A sort of Back to the Past in the Future, if you will.
But for the moment, a little on our trips around the UK this year:
- a (Glasgow) family holiday to North Wales (pics here). A week of Marnie being well-looked after, beautiful weather and visiting spectacular places like Prestatyn, Chester and Chester Zoo, Liverpool (much more impressive than we remember it), Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Llangolen and the valleys, the Glassblobbery, Snowdon (on the mountain railway, of course) and Portmeirion (Much smaller than it appears on The Prisoner, very good camera work there, but what a place - that is what I call art on a grand scale)(pics), with a final visit to the sea at Rhyl (a downmarket Blackpool...)
- a week in Northumberland with friends (pics here), visiting Alnwick Castle, the peaceful Holy Island of Lindisfarne , the wonderful Cragside House and estate where Marnie got lift a mini (car) and ate in the fantastic Treehouse restaurant, which will now go down in history for those who were there.
- another week with the Ratagan family in West Wales (pics here) at St David's (if ever there was reason not to call a place a city just because it had a cathedral...) and the humbling Cathedral, Saundersfoot and Whitesands beaches (amongst many others this summer - South Wales is hooching with excellent beaches), Fishguard, Strumble Head and its ponies, Ramsey Island and the Boat trip, Tenby Dinosaur Park.
So, what with trips to Glasgow and London thrown into the mix as well, we've been about a bit this year. All this, work and raising a daughter too. How do we manage it, eh?
