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Powis Castle Grounds & Gardens.
Another view of
" The Bothy " and Gardens in front of the building.
You can stay here, it sleeps 💤 6 people but quite expensive!!!
Portmeirion is a tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales.
It was built and designed by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975.
This was done in the style of an Italian village, and is now owned by a charitable trust.
It is ideal for a day out or a weekend break for couples and families etc.
There is an admittance charge.
But if you are a guest of the Hotel, entrance into the village is free during your stay.
Also if you have a 2 course lunch at Castell Deudraeth any time of year its free after your lunch, so is Afternoon tea or Sunday lunch at Portmeirion Hotel free for entry also.
Blackrock Cottage, lies at the foot of Meall a’ Bhuird, Rannoch Moor at the entrance to Glen Coe. Access to the cottage is off the A82 on the same access road as the Glencoe Mountain Resort which is clearly signposted. There is parking space for up to 5 cars outside the cottage
Sheep and lambs in fields near the terraced accommodation with the cafe/restaurant in view, at Nant Gwrtheyrn.
4 Bdrms (7). Pets welcome (2 max). Travel Cot & Highchair on request. No smoking in house. Linen. CH. Detached. Sea views. Beach - few metres.
A most delightful detached seaside cottage, completely refurbished from top to toe, metres from the beautiful unspoilt beach and coast at Low Hauxley, just south of Amble and Warkworth. The owners have renovated the property to very high standard in tranquil seaside shades and finishing touches to provide a wonderful holiday home from which to explore the beautiful Heritage Coast.
To book, and for more info call 01665 830783, or visit www.northumbria-cottages.co.uk
To make our walks in northern Snowdonia and to visit the Llyn Peninsula, we stayed at Ty Mawr Farm B&B, in a small place called Llanddeiniolen (Caernarfon). It is a working farm with beautiful views on the Snowdon range, and you reach Llanberis in no time by car.
We got a delicious Welsh tea on arrival, a full English breakfast and the friendly lady of the house provided us with packed lunches to take on our walks. Handy if you want to climb Snowdon!
This is the view from the stoep of "Cloud Cottage"... on the farm "Voogsekraal"... along the R339 between Knysna and Uniondale.
I captured this photo just as the last drops of rain were falling... after a sudden and violent thunderstorm which had just passed directly overhead.
Watching that storm rolling over was way better than anything that you could put on Netflix. :)
Have a lekker weekend everyone!
Two more photos from our weekend trip. This is the front of the cottage - ours is the red brick house. Our street was Angel Lane, named after the local inn (back in the day). We had to be careful as there's no pavement on either side of the road, which lead to the town and a public car park. Luckily the road wasn't too busy.
Single shot HDR in Photomatix grunged up a bit in Topaz Adjust with additional processing in Lightroom and Photoshop.
This was the B&B where we stayed. We chose it because it is situated in a small place called Llanddeiniolen (part of Caernarfon, Snowdonia) and it was possible to reach several of the starting points for climbing Snowdon in a short time. Another reason for my choice was the peace and quiet, the countryside and being on a working farm.
We liked the place!
Neville Tower within Bamburgh Castle is now available for Self Catering. Myself and 3 friends have booked to stay here! (quite thrilled!)
Lindisfarne in the far distance (Holy Island)
Orkney
We stayed here for our two previous visits to Orkney too. We love the place. Unfortunately it’s for sale, and looks like it won’t be used for self catering in the future.
We are the last guests here.
Harray
Orkney
Scotland
Dear all,
Tim, JJ and I are back from our weekend away with Lina! We were staying in a sweet little house in the picturesque Dorset town of Shaftesbury. JJ kindly booked it and paid for it a couple of months back, as we all felt we needed a little boost and feeling of normality. Will catch up with commenting and replying over the next few days. Hope you all have a good week!
Lotsa luv, Jainbow xox
A quick stop on the way home from the school run today to shoot my closest job yet, and the "competition"!
I really liked this shot of the pod, it just captures something of the natural setting of the area. The internal photographs looked pretty good too - and only half a mile from home!
Two more photos from our weekend trip. This is the back of the house. You can see our little garden (with Flickr note - central house) - it looked very pretty, but we couldn't let Lina out, as there was no fence or clear boundary! That would be the biggest problem for us if we were staying longer. We could let her out the front door, but there was the worry she might squeeze under the gate!
This is where we stay when we go to Craobh Haven. Log fires, well equipped kitchens and amazing views. What more could you ask for?
A row of colourful harbour-front buildings in Amble, offering self-catering apartments. They provide visitor accommodation with direct views over the harbour and boat marina, forming a familiar part of the town’s waterfront scene.
Cherry Cottage.
Situated in Normandy Le Manche, close to Brittany was our Holiday home. We rented this for two weeks, and what a great find. slap in the rolling countryside of Maize, Wheat and apple orchards. the cottage was a great place for us over the next two weeks, self catering and WiFi, what more can you ask for.
TED: "We're on our way to Cumbria fer a week! *excited bear*
Dad sed I'm a back seat driver but I ain't, I got no steerin' wheel. *puzzled*
We stopped off on the moterway fer sum food an' I 'ad a lickle ham salad roll, but don't worry, I picked out the 'ealthy stuff."
This photo was taken from the A964 main-road, a very short distance west of Houton Bay.
Orkney's two highest hills are clearly visible on Hoy Island. They are "Ward Hill" (left) and "Cuilags" (right). By contrast Graemsay Island with a tall lighthouse at the right end of it is flat and low-lying.
That narrow stretch of sea is a minute part of Orkney's "Scapa Flow" natural shetered-anchorage.
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TED: "Look!! It's me own bedroom, I don't 'ave to share or nuffink! I don't fink I'll wanna go 'ome agane!"
TED: "We're goin' the slow route, Dad says *sighs, rolls eyes* an' I got the job of map readin'. It's takin' aaages, an' I wanna get there NOW!"
This was an afternoon photo taken in late November.
Incidentally in the middle-distance there is a clutch of buildings including a two-storey old farmhouse. The remarkably well-renovated old outbuildings have been upgraded - several years ago - to achieve Five Star Grading! That complex is called "The Quoy Of Houton".
This late January sunset was in the afternoon. However I was encouraged by the fact that this sunset was about an hour later than it would have been on December 21st - "The Shortest Day"!
By the way that is just a minute part of Orkney's huge "Scapa Flow" naturally-sheltered anchorage. You might also be interested to know that the "Ward Hill" on Hoy is Orkney's highest hill.
Derek Jarman's garden. Derek Jarman realised the importance of gardening in tune with what you've got, in this case, very well draining, dry conditions. Seen here are crocosmia and red valerian.
The Dungeness peninsula in Kent is the largest VEGETATED area of shingle in the world. We've been on holiday in the area in June and July when there's been a marvellous array of flowering plants.
This 1930's property is situated in a wonderful location, directly overlooking the beach of St. Ouen's Bay, St. Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands, British Isles.
Designed in the shape of a boat, the building is known as 'The Barge Aground' but bears the name 'Seagull'. It can be rented as self-catering holiday accommodation from the Jersey Heritage Trust.
Photograph Featured in: Jersey Heritage Marketing Campaign Material 2008/2009.
Since this was a December sunset it was more or less a mid-afternoon capture!
Incidentally - as amplified by my Photo Tags - those previous Outbuildings behind the old farmhouse were extensively renovated a few years ago to two "Five Star" Self-Catering Units sleeping two and five/six respectively.
Portmeirion
In 1925, Welsh architect Clough Williams-Ellis acquired the site which was to become Portmeirion. He had been searching for a suitable site for his proposed ideal village for several years and when he heard that the Aber Iâ estate near Penrhyndeudraeth was for sale, he did not hesitate to make an offer.
He wanted to show how a naturally beautiful location could be developed without spoiling it, and that one could actually enhance the natural background through sympathetic development. The Aber Iâ estate had everything he had hoped for as a site for his architectural experiment: steep cliffs overlooking a wide sandy estuary, woods, streams and a nucleus of old buildings.
But the history of Portmeirion started long before 1925. The construction of Castell Deudraeth was recorded in 1188 by Gerald of Wales, who wrote: "We crossed the Traeth mawr and the Traeth Bychan. These are two arms of the sea, one large and one small. Two stone castles have been built there recently. The one called Castell Deudraeth belongs to the sons of Cynan and is situated in the Eifionydd area, facing the northern Mountains."
Castell Deudraeth was referenced again by the 17th century philologist, geologist, natural historian and keeper of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, Edward Lhuyd in 1700. Lhuyd recorded the name as Aber Iâ, stating " The Castle of Aber Iâ yet stood in ruined form overlooking the south western extremity of the peninsula".
In 1861, Richard Richards wrote a description: "Neither man nor woman was there, only a number of foreign water-fowl on a tiny pond, and two monkeys, which by their cries evidently regarded me as an unwelcome intruder. The garden itself was a very fine one, the walls of which were netted all over with fruit trees...Aber Iâ, then, gentle reader, is a beautiful mansion on the shore of Traeth Bach, in Merionethshire."
When Williams-Ellis acquired the land in 1925 he wrote, "a neglected wilderness - long abandoned by those romantics who had realised the unique appeal and possibilities of this favoured promontory but who had been carried away by their grandiose landscaping...into sorrowful bankruptcy." Clough immediately changed the name from Aber Iâ (Glacial Estuary) to Portmeirion; Port because of the coastal location and Meirion as this is Welsh for Merioneth, the county in which it lay.
His first job was to extend and convert the old house on the shore into a grand hotel. The concept of a tightly grouped coastal village had already formed in Clough's mind some years before he found the perfect site and he had quite a well-defined vision for the village from the outset.
Portmeirion was built in two stages: from 1925 to 1939 the site was 'pegged-out' and its most distinctive buildings were erected. From 1954-76 he filled in the details. The second period was typically classical or Palladian in style in contrast to the Arts and Crafts style of his earlier work. Several buildings were salvaged from demolition sites, giving rise to Clough's description of the place as "a home for fallen buildings".
"An architect has strange pleasures," Clough wrote in 1924. "He will lie awake listening to the storm in the night and think how the rain is beating on his roofs, he will see the sun return and will think that it was for just such sunshine that his shadow-throwing mouldings were made."
The first article about Portmeirion appeared in The Architects' Journal (January 6 1926) with photographs of scale models and preliminary designs prepared by Clough to impress potential investors. In this article, John Rothenstein writes: "On the sea-coast of North Wales, quite near his own old home, Plas Brondanw, he has acquired what he believes to be an ideal site, and he is engaged upon plans and models for the laying out of an entire small township. The results of his scheme will be significant and should do much to shake the current notion that although houses must be designed with due care, towns may grow up by chance."
The Hotel Portmeirion officially opened for the Easter Weekend, on 2nd April 1926. The last building, the Tollgate, was built in Clough's 93rd year.
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In the foreground is"The QuoyOf Houton". The former outbuildings to the left of the previous Farmhouse are now Five-Star self-catering flats.
The smaller unit sleeps 2 in one bedroom. The larger unit has 3 bedrooms and is likely to be able to sleep six.
I have masses of pictures of cottages and buildings to upload, and very few landscapes - need to remedy this.
When we stayed in Dorset last month, we were in a holiday cottage at Doghouse Farm, Chideock, the old milking parlour. It can be seen here in the group of buildings right in the middle of the picture, the cream coloured building with floor to ceiling windows on the ground floor. The view from those windows is of Golden Cap, a cliff which is the highest point on the south coast of England. (Golden Cap was behind me when I took this photo.)
At Chideock, Dorset, England.
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