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Wales

Slow / Araf

I’m in Wales. I hope there’s someone here who can understand English. If not I will have to SPEAK LOUDLY!

A Photographic Review

1. Mind the Gap, 2. The Night Sky, 3. Pen-y-beacon, 4. Moss on the roof, 5. Jumeira Mosque, 6. Ossuaire de Douaumont, 7. Four sisters: May, 8. Elland Road, 9. minus 20, 10. Ratcliffe-upon-Soar power station, 11. Sunset in Stockholm

These are all some of the more “noteworthy” photographs on my now (almost defunct) Flickr account.

The Brecon Beacons

They don’t look like much from here but there they are touching the clouds behind that tree and across the valley (as seen from the national park visitors’ centre).  The Brecon Beacons.

Precautions

I have no idea why this sign is on the wall of a shop in Hay-on-Wye but apparently AW Bombs are phospherous bottle bombs used by the home guard in the Second World War. They were manufactured by Allbright and Wilson (a chemical company) and stored around the countryside at the beginning of the War.  Every now and again a stash is discovered, causing a bit of drama.

Murder and Mayhem

This is one of the speciality bookshops of Hay-on-Wye, with an atmosphere to match: outline on floor (above), cobwebs, mystery displays. I didn’t buy anything here but it was an enjoyable 45 minutes well spent. 

I wandered around various bookshops looking for Jane Harris’ The Observations, but ended up taking home another half dozen or so titles. As Paul Collins puts it in an old Guardian article:

Hay-on-Wye is not about the books you are looking for, it’s about the books that are looking for you.

Gratuitous link: elsewhere in the blogosphere Mandrake visited this bookshop in September 2006.

Shepherds of Hay-on-Wye

This is the inside of the famous Shepherds coffee shop, home of good ice-cream, among other things. It was packed in there, which may have something to do with the wet and cold weather outside.

Today we leave Hay-on-Wye, stacked with books, returning home for the New Year.

The River Wye

I woke up this morning next to this rather swollen river, and its peaceful sounds, accompanied by birdsong.

It’s almost a pity that one has to drag oneself out of bed, but at least the sun is shining today.

There is almost no mobile phone network here, so I’ll post this later when we get to Hay-on-Wye.

Harder than it looks?

If this was as easy as it looks they would have pushed us off downstream in one of these on the recent trip to North Wales.  Contrary to the perception of the photograph, this canoeist is actually paddling upstream. Not that he’s travelling upstream mind - he is riding a static wave caused by one of the rapids.  I guess the trick with these things is (when you get washed over) to tip yourself upright without dashing your brains out on the rocks.