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| a younger me and a younger Jill |
This is me and my friend Jill at Tintern Abbey in Wales, in our somewhat younger days. Crumbs if I could just be that thin again:=) I guess it helped that we were walking over hill and down dale on 10 mile walks in the British countryside. Come rain, hail or shine, as the saying goes. We were doing the backpacking thing with our fellas (now husbands) all over Europe and Britain.
Tintern Abbey is a glorious ruin in the Wye Valley, originally founded by monks in the year 1131. It has inspired artists like Turner and poets like Wordsworth. Apparently British children have been reciting his poem ever since. Tintern Village has their own website (enterprising), which you can peruse and get a few more images of the Abbey.
(Oh, the walls are not blue by the way. For some reason, the scanner turned them into a lovely azure shade).
I am joining in again with Fiona from Tiffin Bite Sized Food Adventures on her regular travel link-up. This month's letter is J. Yep I know, I am reaching a bit here using my mate Jill for my J but Fiona does say to be lateral if you need to be :=) Join in too with your travel adventures.
What a lovely pic of you! And if only we could be our previous size again!! Haha :P
ReplyDeletethanks lorraine!
DeleteWales is the most perfect place for walking and stumbling on great treasures :)
ReplyDeletewe loved Wales and would love to go back some day. The Gower Peninsula was superb.
DeleteWhat a fun memory. Thanks for sharing and I love the idea of walking through the country side.
ReplyDeleteWe did lots of walks patti. It is a wonderful thing to come across a tea shop or pub on these long walks :)
DeleteGreat pic! I was just talking to someone about Wales being on my list of things to do the other night. It's a sign!
ReplyDeleteyou must go Jem. it is lovely.
DeleteLovely! And a real photo too...not digital. ;) Too bad all our old "real" photos are in storage boxes now while we're abroad.
ReplyDeletehi Joy
Deleteone of the great things about joining in with fiona's travel linky has been discovering all my old photos. real ones in real albums. and i can't believe the quality. they still look fabulous!
I'm sure I must have been to Tintern Abbey on some visit or other but I can't recall. I can see you are mining the rich history of photos and doing some scanning at the same time. If we keep this up for the next few years, your scanning should all be done! Well done again on including Jill : )
ReplyDeleteyou are right there fiona - definitely mining the photo albums! and enjoying looking at old times.
Deleteyou are right there fiona - definitely mining the photo albums! and enjoying looking at old times.
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