Penllech Beach part 2 – morning
The sun about to rise behind the hills in the north. The morning after the night before was beautiful. Clear, still, fresh. The alarm...
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Jul 22, 2017
Penllech Beach wild camp – part 1
The northern coast of the Lleyn peninsula in North Wales is a wild and (relatively) quiet place. It’s well away from the tourist...
Jul 15, 2017
Nantlle Ridge overnight – part 1
Drive from Caernarfon towards Beddgelert on the A4085, past Llyn Cwellyn, and you arrive at Rhyd Ddu. It’s a hamlet with pub and cafe and...
Jul 11, 2017
Ullswater Overnight part 2 – sunrise
The morning after the night before, and a better night’s sleep than I often get in a bivvy bag, I woke just before the alarm went off at...
Jul 11, 2017
Ullswater Overnight part 1
Glenridding from Silver Crag. The Helvellyn range is the far sky line. A few weeks ago, my first (successful) overnight wild camp of the...
Jul 11, 2017
Crinkle Crags
8 miles 770 metres ascent 6 hours round trip Route map on plotaroute.com I’ve done this walk before but not for some time. Starting in...
Jun 30, 2017
St Ives – turquoise and grey
Most of my memories of St. Ives are of sunshine and glittering sea. When we were there a few weeks ago that’s what we mostly got, along...
Jun 26, 2017
The bridges of Anglesey
The island of Anglesey is separated from the Welsh mainland by the Menai Strait, about 16 miles long and between 400m and 1100m wide....
Jun 13, 2017
Swaledale flower meadows
Friend and erstwhile market stallholder Richard and his better half Polly have moved up to better things and opened a very nice gallery...
May 17, 2017
Brixham Sunrise
This is Brixham, in Devon, at half past seven in the morning in September 2010. I often trawl (pardon the pun – see below) through my...
May 17, 2017
Pontcysyllte World Heritage Site
Joy and I did a walk in the Llangollen valley a few weeks ago, taking in the spectacular Pontcysyllte aqueduct, now a world heritage...
Apr 11, 2017
Damson and Blackthorn
April in England is the time for blossom. Going out photographing in the Lake District yesterday, after checking my stock at Botany Bay,...
Apr 6, 2017
Cheshire Plain
Cheshire is mostly flat. I lived in hilly areas for twenty years so I’m having to recalibrate my photographic eye to get the best out of...
Mar 22, 2017
On top of the world
In response to the WordPress Daily Post challenge Atop This symbol is used on Ordnance Survey maps (the best maps in the world, IMHO) to...
Mar 17, 2017
Finding beauty in less obvious places
Yesterday I went walking around the waterside areas around Frodsham. This is a small town near the inland end of the Mersey estuary. The...
Mar 14, 2017
Tarn Hows
I’d made a trip to the small Cumbria lake of Tarn Hows last autumn. What I didn’t realise on that day was that if I walked about two...
Feb 8, 2017
The best view in Wales?
In response to the WordPress Daily Post challenge Solitude …in which we discuss how you can find one of the best views in Snowdonia with...
Jan 25, 2017
Welsh Moods
Monday was supposed to be a bright sunny day in Snowdonia. It was just that as I arrived at Conwy for my morning coffee, a perfect mix of...
Jan 16, 2017
Beddgelert sunset
Some shots taken last week looking toward the end of the Snowdon range, with Lliwedd and Yr Aran prominent. Lliwedd is the double headed...
Jan 3, 2017
More from the Vale of Clwyd
Following the lovely walk we did last week, we did another in the same area with a slight overlap, starting from the tiny village of...
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