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Red Kite feeding

Some photos from today's feeding session, about 300 birds visit daily in the summer and up to 600 in the winter. In the mid 1990's the were only 6 birds.

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Rhaydar and rain

It forcast to rain today and it did until just after lunch, so we stayed in the van. Went for a stroll along the river into town this afternoon and found this waterfall.

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Llangullo

Lovely stay in the carpark of the Greyhound pub last night. Great open mike sessions from some very talented people. Real ale, real fire, real people but no phone or WiFi signals.

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Train to Porthmadog

As it's on our doorstep we feel we must take a trip on the stream train. It runs along the valley below Snowdon into Porthmadoc. We manage to get seats in the open

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Slate country

A quiet morning, then a walk into the village and out on the Pilgrims/Slate path. He are a few slate related photos taken during today's 3.5 mile walk.

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A walk with a view

Today a 6 mile walk from the campsite to a view point and on passed some iron age settlements. Yesterday's view from Caernarfon castle was of the hill we climbed today, and this

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Caernarfon

A trip on the Sherpa bus from the campsite. A statue of David Lloyd-George outside Caernarfon castle. A view from the castle.

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Waunfawr

Campsite next to a pub with a brewery and stream railway running alongside.

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Rain

It was forecast, and it continued nearly all day. Although it was cloudy we decided to walk into town tonight, and it stayed dry. We were entertained in the pub by a group

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Llangollen Railway and Castell Dinas Bran

Another visit to Llangollen town today for provisions and to photograph the railway. Sadly we missed the stream engine. Then after lunch and some DIY we went for a walk to climb Castell

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Horseshoe Falls

Walked along the towpath to the start of the Llangollen canal at the Horseshoe Falls. Then to the Chainbridge Hotel and a walk across said wobbly bridge. Saw some of the horse drawn

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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct

A 5 mile walk along the canal from Llangollen. The aqueduct across the river Dee. Canoeists made me think of Joan and DofE expeditions.

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Llangollen

It only took 20mins to walk down to town from the campsite, it is going to take longer to climb back up. Two views from our pitch. It only took us 20 mins

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Evesham

Just a few photos from our latest trip. Internet access may not be available everyday, so there may be gaps. Evesham Abbey bell tower Then onto The Fleece, Bretforton and Brian experimented with

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Monday 11th June

Last few days We visited the two tourist attractions in Cahir, both lastly owned by the Butler family. Cahir castle is the best preserved medieval castle in Ireland and we arrived in time

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Sunday 10th June

First grass roads The Rock of Cashel is illuminated by night, although we didn't notice at 2 am on Friday! Tonight on the way back to the campsite we can appreciate the sight.

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Saturday 9th June

Another hot day. We understand this warm weather is very unusual for Ireland, and we say we'll take it back with us on Tuesday. A late night last night. After an ok meal

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Friday 8th June

County hunting. We were trying to visit every Irish County, so had to do a bit of a trek as we missed Laois on the way north. But the was also a workhouse

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Thursday 7th June

Cork We booked into Blarney campsite last night for a couple of nights so that we could visit Cork town today. In Cork we found a barbers shop with these wonderful posters in

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Wednesday 6th June

Leaving school. Actually, leaving Schull on the coast, a lovely small town with a marina and a campsite in the owners garden. As we have travelled around Ireland we have seen many of

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Tuesday 5th June

Mizen Head Having parked on the marina at Bantry last night we had a lovely view of the sunset. We were pleasantly surprised that after a walk round town we were only charged

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Monday 4th June

Even more stunning scenery. This morning's swimmers in the river. Plus some Martins to fast to photo. Some unexpected flowers in the hedgerows. And some of the scenery today in the Cork and

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Sunday 3rd June

Still not many tourists. Because it's bank holiday here, well a Whitsun I think, we expected lots of tourists, particularly locals. So we visited Blenaville windmill first, this meant going back through Tralee,

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Saturday 2nd June

Where are the tourists? We could only stay two nights at Tralee because the campsite was fully booked for the weekend as it's bank holiday on Monday and most schools have finished for

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Friday 1st June

Tralee Started with a walk through the Rose Garden. The roses are only just starting to flower, but the large beds of single variety roses will look lovely very soon. The sensory garden

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