A trip to the UK for later this year is in the planning stage, and will include staying a week in Hay on Wye - true boookshop paradise for Jennie. We are itemising North Wales sites of interest including Harlech castle, the Blaenau Ffestiniog railway, Portmeirion and the Welsh Mountain Zoo (for the little ones). This last spot turns out to be the birthplace of former 007 Timothy Dalton and former python Terry Jones. A number of personal genealogical south Wales locations are penciled in, including Abergavenny, Llanvetherine and Tintern Abbey. The last of these was the location used in the Iron Maiden music video of Can I Play With Madness which featured Graham Chapman (the dead python) in one of his last ever TV appearances.
Tintern Abbey, built in the 13th Century,
demonasticized in the 16th by Henry VIII
Kidwelly was the only castle appearing in Monty Python and the Holy Grail which isn't in Scotland, not counting the one which Patsy denounced as 'only a model'. The £229k budget for this film was raised partly from Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Led Zeppelin. Another day trip planned from Hay on Wye takes us near Rushock, the resting place of John Bonham. Maybe we'll stop. A song by the Dutch gothic metal group Within Temptation randomised it's way onto my ipod turntable - named Hand of Sorrow, it evoked in me images, familiar but couldn't quite be placed... A wiki search showed the song to be based upon the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb that I am currently rereading for the first time in more than a decade. A nice form of synchronicity.
Tintern Abbey, built in the 13th Century,demonasticized in the 16th by Henry VIII
Kidwelly was the only castle appearing in Monty Python and the Holy Grail which isn't in Scotland, not counting the one which Patsy denounced as 'only a model'. The £229k budget for this film was raised partly from Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull and Led Zeppelin. Another day trip planned from Hay on Wye takes us near Rushock, the resting place of John Bonham. Maybe we'll stop. A song by the Dutch gothic metal group Within Temptation randomised it's way onto my ipod turntable - named Hand of Sorrow, it evoked in me images, familiar but couldn't quite be placed... A wiki search showed the song to be based upon the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb that I am currently rereading for the first time in more than a decade. A nice form of synchronicity.
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