Day 5 - Corris Mines, Rhaeadr Pistyll

[mothwing]

Towards Rhaeadr Dolgoch.




Rhaeadr Dolgoch.


Caving for beginners.








Tal-y-llyn, where the sleepers lie in Susan Cooper's The Grey King. (Fire on the mountain, shall find the harp of gold; Played to wake the sleepers, Oldest of the old;), This book series may or may not have significantly spurred my love for all things Welsh.


Welsh signs come in Welsh first and English second, and the further north you get, the shorter these English translations get, until they're gone entirely.






Art carved from the former tallest tree in Wales, a Douglas Fir close to Lake Vyrnwy.




Lake Vyrnwy. I'd like to go diving there, as the village was flooded after the dam was built.


Pistyll Rhaeadr, the highest single-drop waterfall in Wales, I think.








Driving in Wales - not for the faint-hearted. Right behind that flimsy fence, the road drops hundreds of meters into a valley.


Again, the views make up for it.

Comments

[mothwing.livejournal.com]

I'm in awe of your picture gallery, it's so well-maintained and organised and informative, really like a travel guide. Such a lovely way to capture memories.

[ysilme]

Thanks! It relieves me that it looks so on the outside... because my gallery is anything but. Mostly because so much is lacking which should be there... *ahem*. But the memory-capturing thing is what is most important for me about it. I'm also going to do what my father started and what I find really lovely: have "Fotobuch" made form the best shots out of every holiday. He started the first just with pics and wrote commments later in it by hand with a gel pen, and sometimes glued tickets inside, too... it's an awesome way to have acutal memories also to show around, I think.