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In explore 17/09/2022 (nr. 28)
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I walked over this lovely old bridge to find myself in Gloucestershire, England.
In 1816 Chepstow Bridge was the third largest cast-iron arch road bridge in the world. It is now the largest cast-iron arch road bridge surviving from that period.
River Wye , Chepstow, Wales.
Llanerchaeron is a small 18th century Welsh gentry estate, set in the beautiful Dyffryn Aeron.
The estate survived virtually unaltered into the 20th century and was bequeathed to the National Trust by J. P. Ponsonby Lewes in 1989, whose family had owned it for 10 generations.
People love to walk behind this waterfall. Great what nature provides for free. 5 years ago I enjoyed the walk to get down to this, but today I have to rely on the memory. I wouldn't attempt it today, those steps back up would be the death of me. waterfalls in Brecon Beacons National Park
i shall soon be back in Wales to visit my dear Mum and family ... and lots of sheep :))
i am away for 3 weeks
its a long journey from Western Canada . and a long bus ride of 6 hours follows once we arrive ..
... catches the Golden Morning Light
Sunrise over the Wild Garden in the deep Countryside in West Wales (Ceredigion)
[Dedicated to CRA (ILYWAMHASAM)]
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Llyn Ogwen, one of many lakes in Snowdonia National park, this one has a road running by one side making it very easy to visit. Wales, Sony A6300
Heading out early today I heard this on the car radio www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rKQEmzFJFM and wanted to be in Wales, my go to place to escape...and feel at home in.
It's a picture from a few years ago, but I know, even though I'm not there, it is just like this today. Beautiful.
And the boys version www.youtube.com/watch?v=AARrVAHnkdY
On the train back to Cardiff after walking from Bristol to Bath on the trackbed of the former Midland Railway route between those two cities, a superb sunset to end a day that had started very wet but which had improved through the day. This was taken through the double-glazed windows of a train doing around 80 mph, with few gaps in the trees lining the trackside. This was between Newport and Cardiff, somewhere around Marshfield.
The perfect Polar Bear weather has arrived here in Wales on the
INTERNATIONAL POLAR BEAR DAY (Feb 27th)
7 Days with Flickr #MacroOrClose-Up
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Dedicated to C.F. (ILYWAMHASAM)
Chepstow looked a very nice town, If I had more time I would have gone in the castle, but I also wanted to go to the river.
Beautifully preserved Chepstow Castle stretches out along a limestone cliff above the River Wye like a history lesson in stone.
There’s no better place in Britain to see how castles gradually evolved to cope with ever more destructive weaponry – and the grandiose ambitions of their owners. For more than six centuries Chepstow was home to some of the wealthiest and most powerful men of the medieval and Tudor ages.
Building was started in 1067 by Earl William fitz Osbern, close friend of William the Conqueror, making it one of the first Norman strongholds in Wales. In turn William Marshal (Earl of Pembroke), Roger Bigod (Earl of Norfolk) and Charles Somerset (Earl of Worcester) all made their mark before the castle declined after the Civil War.
These magnates and power-brokers were constantly on the move. Chepstow was just one residence in their vast estates – an impressive shell into which they would bring their gold and silver vessels, rich silk and brightly painted furniture.