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  • Great! Weekend in North Wales and visited Anglesee and the isle of Holyhead. Did a lot of hiking around Snowdonia, visited a RSPB wildlife site, walked along quite a few aquaducts, ate great food and took part in a Gavin and Stacy pub quiz (I don't watch the show so I was a bit useless here). The weather was a bit on and off, but it was overall very beautiful.

    Aquaduct from another aquaduct

    RSPB Puffin site in Holyhead

    You can't quite see them in the photo, but every black dot in the sea and on those cliffs are birds. Birds by the thousands. Birds maybe by the millions. It was their nesting season and these little flying penguins would swoop by clumsily over our heads every minute or so. I have never seen so many birds in my life. I've been looking online for other photos to do it justice, but nothing comes close to depicting the sheer number of them.

    Portmeirion "Village"

    If the name rings a bell but you can't quite place it, then play this song and take a look at the photos below.

    They had beer named/numbered after the characters! I naturally had a few number 6's, and apparently went into full gushing fan mode and bought a bunch of stupidly overpriced merchandise. I am nonetheless very chuffed. It was a beautiful village, and a real peek into the mind of an amazing architect:

    "Cherish the past, adorn the present, construct for the future."

    ~ Clough Williams-Ellis

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