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travel photography
A travel photo blog exploring the charms of north Wales and Llandudno. A seaside resort town on the Creuddyn peninsula of the Conwy County Borough, Llandudno is a favourite for picturesque conferences of both political parties and comedians. (Insert your own joke there). Poking out into the Irish Sea, I noticed that it’s on an identical […]
This final Isle of Skye travel post of three takes in Dunvegan Castle, Neist Point, Sligachan and Talisker Bay. Dunvegan Castle Dunvegan Castle is a stand-out tourist attraction on a north western tip of the Isle of Skye. We saw numerous leaflets about it, it’s boldly marked on every map, it has a long and […]
Portree is the capital and largest town of the Isle of Skye. A pretty town and obvious epicentre for tourists, it has a quaint harbour that provides several boat rides a day. I see from the Wikipedia page that “Around 939 people (37.72% of the population) can speak Scottish Gaelic” but let’s not be too […]
The Isle of Skye is an astonishingly beautiful place. After taking the swooping humped bridge connected to mainland Scotland’s northwest coast, you can be stunned in nearly every direction you turn; every long winding corner you arc around, every horizon you climb towards. When you travel around Skye, you’re presented with countless incredible vistas, many […]
Exploring Eire
25th August 2013
by Mark Hawkins
Another from the travel vaults. Although now a Cardiff photographer, this is from a 2007 road trip from Cheltenham to South-West Ireland. A handsome looking dog sits on the passenger seat of the car next to me, seeming quite human in its polkerdot neckerchief. Its owner smokes idly, tatooed, pierced, bottle blonde and bored in […]