I’ve chosen to wander to the village of Portmeirion, North Wales, this week. There are a couple of reasons for doing so; one, it’s a pretty interesting place and, two, it’s fifty years ago this week since filming started on cult television series The Prisoner, which used the village as its backdrop. The Prisoner starredContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Portmeirion, Wales”
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Wednesday Wander – Fishing Village near Taghazout, Morocco
Is is Wednesday already? How this month has flown! I thought I’d be back on here a bit sooner than this, but the last few days of summer holidays are here and so I’ve been out and about, soaking up the minutes with my gorgeous girl before she goes back to school this Friday. However,Continue reading “Wednesday Wander – Fishing Village near Taghazout, Morocco”
Wednesday Wander – Panathenaic Olympic Stadium, Greece
With the Olympics on and Team GB doing so well (yay!), I thought it might be fun this week to wander to Greece, where it all began. Now, this is obviously not a stadium built for the 2004 Athens Olympics – rather, this is the Panathenaic Stadium, where the first modern Olympics were held inContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Panathenaic Olympic Stadium, Greece”
Wednesday Wander – Niagara Falls, Canada
When I lived in Ontario, I used to live not too far from Niagara Falls. Close enough that I remember going on a couple of dates there during high school, close enough that it was where we took all our visitors whenever they came to stay. It was no different when I went back toContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Niagara Falls, Canada”
Wednesday Wander – Pont Du Gard, France
This rather splendid aqueduct is the Pont Du Gard, a Unesco World Heritage site located in France. Pont Du Gard is about 2000 years old, built by the Romans when they were occupying what was then Gaul, to channel water from a spring at Ucetia (now Uzes) to the city of Nemausus (modern Nimes). TheContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Pont Du Gard, France”
Wednesday Wander – Surfing Santa Cruz, California
I’ve been away for a few days visiting family, so have been a little bit absent on the blog front. However, it’s Wednesday, and I couldn’t let it pass without taking my usual Wednesday Wander. I am married to a man who loves to surf so, when we visited California last year, we spent aContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Surfing Santa Cruz, California”
Wednesday Wander – Whistler, BC
As it’s been so warm here these past few days, for my Wednesday Wander this week I wanted to go somewhere cold. I had a few options – the mountains of Australia or Andorra, inside a glacier in the Swiss Alps, or a view across a frozen Lake Ontario, taken from high above in theContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Whistler, BC”
Wednesday Wander – Breakfast on the Beach
It’s been a busy week. Lots of different things going on at home, at work and in the dojo. All good things, just things that took preparation and focus and time. So I haven’t really done much writing at all these past few days, other than a few blog comments here and there. Today isContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Breakfast on the Beach”
Wednesday Wander – Surfers Paradise, Australia
It’s the destination. The place that all the tourists know, heading north from the cool chic of Sydney to a place where gleaming towers line a golden beach, blue waves rolling in. In this shot, taken a little bit further along the coast, Surfers Paradise shimmers like some mythical Oz on the horizon, a placeContinue reading “Wednesday Wander – Surfers Paradise, Australia”
Wednesday Wander – Aughris House, Sligo
This is the Beach House at Aughris, Ireland, an ancient pub and B&B that happens to serve very fine meals. Sitting on the curve of a silvery bay, it looks across the shifting sands to mountains and the burial cairn of a legendary queen, while the stones on the beach contain fossils even older still,Continue reading “Wednesday Wander – Aughris House, Sligo”
Helen Glynn Jones 