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St Fagans National Museum of History is a true treasure of Wales and Britain. It was fantastic to see it named Art Fund Museum of the Year last week, beating off four other contenders from around the UK to win the prestigious £100,000 prize. St Fagans National Museum of History St Fagans allows visitors to […]
Just as the idea of physical distance has a certain romance, distant shapes can acquire an enchanting mystery. That is, until you eventually go and explore them. Across any town or city there are features of the skyline: good, bad or indifferent. You will instantly know what some of them are and have little interest in […]
Waking up to see Mount Snowdon through the window of your cabin feels pretty good for the soul. Our little wooden space near Beddgelert campsite was nestled into a hillside surrounded by trails and tracks. Its position next to a large field proved a heavenly back garden for Tal, our young labrador. The owner’s website […]
Clifton Suspension Bridge is a widely celebrated piece of architecture. Despite passing beneath it along the A4 Portway road on countless occasions, I had never been up to the Clifton Down parklands surrounding it, nor walked, cycled or driven across it. Until recently. One glorious sun-kissed Sunday in early May 2017 I photographed Bristol City’s […]
As a Wales travel photographer, there’s often a sense of renewal when the clocks ‘Spring forward’ into British Summertime. While the mornings might initially feel a touch darker, the evenings feel generous in length thanks to the additional sunlight. This gives more time to drink in the new growth, the flowers and the budding tree […]
Capturing photographs of Cardiff has occupied me for years, but recent weeks have seen the opening of a new chapter. At the start of July I moved into my ninth Cardiff property. Having lived in Cathays, Roath, Canton, Pontcanna and Heath from 1999 to 2006, my last six years have been spent in the Atlantic Wharf […]
The Vale of Glamorgan coastline is a spectacular stretch of south Wales. A short distance from any large city, it’s a place of relative seclusion. You’re more likely to seek it out than stumble upon it. And as a destination for tourists or daytrippers, it might still come second to the more obvious allure of the […]
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 […]
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