Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda 2026!

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2026. Picture taken on Conwy's medieval town walls Easter 2025 while doing a self guided tour of Castle and town.  Well worth a visit. Click on picture to enjoy the views!

Nadolig Llawen 2022

 

Went for a wonderful Crimbo walk this morning with Gill to work up an appetite for dinner. Nadolig Llawen! 

Nadolig Llawen 2021!

Merry Christmas everyone! 

(View on way up to to 2015 to Snowden, Yr Wyddfa, looking back on the Watkins Path. Now looking forward to Easter 2022 climb). 

Christmas Sunshine Over Maeni Hirion

Off message-ish but I thought I would share my picture of the early bronze age stone circle, Maeni Hirion. It was taken on a marvellous pathfinder guide walk on Sunday in Penmaenmawr, North Wales. The far edge of the Snowdonian National Park overlooking the sea. Nowadays you may have driven past Penmaenmawr in minutes while along the A55 on route to Anglesey or Ireland. In the past it use to be a popular seaside resort. A favourite with William Gladstone.

This stone circle is better known as the "Druids Circle" yet it was built a 1000 years before the Druids first came to the area with Iron Age invaders.

Sunday was only a few days after the winter solstice.  You would imagine in the past that the midst of winter and the shortest day, would have been an important time of the year for those who built it.

It is a breathtakingly beautiful and peaceful site even if the wind whips red raw any skin you foolishly expose to the elements.

Check out the balanced and thoughtful (as ever) Jack of Kent post on the origins of Christmas here.

Nadolig Llawen everyone!