Wandering in Wales - a tour of Merlin and Arthurian sites in Wales - April 11-17, 2011

Since I went on a tour of Merlin filming sites over the course of 6 days, I thought it would be a good idea to tell you about options just in case you also want to visit. I'll try and include costs and mileage, etc. Keep in mind that I'm from the States so I'm ( Read more... )

We had our first Magical Merlin Locations Tour on Tuesday. Joining me were our own archaeologist_d, Bess from the merloc website, and various camp followers. Our destination was the undercroft at Neath Abbey, used in filming two episodes of Merlin - and not generally open to the public. Indeed, I had to fill out forms and pay a fee and organise insurance - which ( Read more... )

Hello, all! I continue to be absolutely swamped with work and other commitments, so apologies... if I am not even managing to keep the vital things ticking over, please feel free to give me a nudge!

Magical Merlin Locations Tour | Neath Abbey
We are going ahead with our visit to Neath Abbey. I have just sent off All The Forms, and basically had ( Read more... )

Locations stalwart archaeologist_d is visiting Wales in April - which is delightful news in itself! She and I are planning to meet up at Neath Abbey, and we've been looking into the possibility of organising with Cadw to be able to visit the (generally inaccessible) undercoft. Would you like to come, too...?

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{happy sighs}

So I'm sure we all remember the awesome promotional shots released in conjunction with the finale episodes of season three... Arthur and his sizzlingly hot knights, along with Merlin - and even Gaius! Richard almost never gets to do locations work (though I don't suppose he minds very much).

I'm sure, like me, you were soon peering ( Read more... )

Well, like most others, I can't believe it's over for another year!

Apologies for the delayed post, but I was away with some excellent friends for the weekend...

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Thank you for the kind reception of my first batch of Locations icons! I thought I would keep going - though, I don't know... somehow I'm not managing to translate what's in my head into pixels. Anyway, I hope you like these.

And please remember that February isn't over yet! We have had some really beautiful Locations icons posted, and a lovely ( Read more... )

Our resident Research Geek gealach_ros was clever enough to track down Neath Abbey as the probable location for King Odin's castle in episode 202 The Once and Future Queen, and posted about it here. Thank you, hon! ♥

The Abbey is managed by Cadw - who have since been kind enough to confirm via email that our Merlin crew did indeed film there on 23 March 2009 ( Read more... )

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We may not know some of these details until the DVDs come out - with audio commentaries that happen to mention locations, if we're lucky! - but in the meantime...

The opening scenes of The Once and Future Queen showed King Odin grieving for his son in the vaulted crypt or undercroft of his castle. Does anyone have an idea of where the scene was ( Read more... )