A visit to Welsh Wales

[gillo]

On Sunday I went to visit Mum. The weather was astonishing - so warm it might have been June, not April, and with almost clichéd blue skies with just the tiniest of fluffy white clouds.

On Sunday itself I didn't do a lot apart from driving to Bodelwyddan and visiting Mum (who seems to be on the mend. Thanks to all of you who commented on my last

Comments

[petzipellepingo]

Very pretty area although the cemetery is quite sad.

[gillo]

I Googled the story, which is fascinating. Even now there is controversy about the riots and claims of a government cover-up.

The area is outside the main visitor target; we, like most people, have driven past many times without stopping - Rhyl is a bit of a dump these days. It's actually much more attractive than most people give it credit for. Glad you liked the pics.

[curiouswombat]

Ooooh! That is a lovely doorway. I must think of a story for it.

It is so sad, when you find those Commonwealth War Graves in quiet, unexpected, places and realise how far away form home those young men were.

[gillo]

Yes, those war graves get everywhere. :-( It seems particularly sad that so many of them died when the war was actually over, too.

Glad you liked the doorway. There was this one in the castle, too:

[curiouswombat]

That looks rather as if it could be the ruins of a Hobbit hole...

[gillo]

Do hobbits build in stone? It's one of the gatehouse towers in reality. I wonder if Master James of St George was a hobbit in secret? He did go in for round towers a lot.

[louise39]

Thanks for the lovely tour-by-photo. 'Here be Dragons' is the only book I've read about this area and it's wonderful to see.

[gillo]

Y Ddraig Goch is the symbol of Wales (the Red Dragon). It's one of those areas so full of history it could burst.

Thanks for commenting.

[brunettepet]

I was taking in the beautiful architecture and the green, green grass and the lovely views and then that graveyard gutted me. What a grim, terrible story. It's easy to forget the vastness of that epidemic. I'm going to have to look into the riot, it sounds like a fascinating piece of history.

[gillo]

The riot fascinated me too - I wish I'd known of it before I visited the graves. The epidemic seems to have been helped by some pretty awful living conditions too.

Thanks for commenting.

[cbtreks]

Thanks for sharing the pictures. It's pretty - very green! I'm always (perhaps overly) impressed with very old buildings and ruins. (My paternal great-grandfather was Welsh by blood, though not by birth, having been born in Shropshire. His last name was Evans.)

[gillo]

I like old buildings - just as well, considering where I live. There are many places in Warwickshire where merely "Victorian" doesn't really count as "old"!

Evans is an extremely Welsh name, and Shropshire has always been frontier territory!

I'm glad you like my pics - thanks for commenting.