Something about that name has been nagging at me. I finally rememberd.
Anglesey is the old Druid isle, isn't it? Where the Druids made their last
stand against the Romans, as Boudicca savaged the south?
--Bob Whitmire
Certified Neanderthal
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 1:45 PM, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That looks like an interesting tour, Nathan, although many of my
> colleagues have for years tried hard not to visit Anglesey – owing to the
> fact that it’s a posting for fast-jet instructors at RAF Valley. Did you
> see any aircraft while you were on the island?
>
> Chris
>
> > On 15 Sep 2015, at 17:37, Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Yesterday morning I said goodbye to my daughter at the hospital in
> Bodelwyddan, on the north coast of Wales, where she will be the next 3
> months, doing an internship. My flight home from Liverpool was in the
> evening, so I drove west, all the way along the north coast and across
> Anglesey, ending up in Holyhead. As I was walking around the town, I
> happened on this church, apparently founded by St Cybi, cousin of the
> patron saint of Wales, St David. There has been a church here since the 6th
> century, although of course the current structure is much more recent:
> >
> > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-MHdjgCv/A <
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-MHdjgCv/A>
> >
> > I went inside:
> > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-QMndwGN/A <
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-QMndwGN/A>
> >
> > There were some interesting details:
> > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-TVLD79r/A <
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-TVLD79r/A>
> >
> > But as so often happens when travelling, it is meeting the people that
> makes a place special. These two volunteers (stewards, they call
> themselves), show people around and explain various features of the church.
> They were with someone else when I came in, so I just looked around on my
> own (which I prefer anyway). But as I was leaving, they approached me and
> apologised for not being available, and asked where I was from—a simple
> question, the answer to which is complicated in my case…So we had a nice
> chat and at the end I got them to pose for me:
> > http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-cp8HGCP/A <
> http://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-cp8HGCP/A>
> >
> > Cheers,
>
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