In July and August 2016 Laura and I rented a cottage in Wales. Before that we spend four days in the South of England, and afterwards five more days. Click on a photo for enlargement.
Here you'll find a photo album of our visit to the Ashdown Forest Llama Park. Here you'll find a photo album of our visit to Manor House Wildlife Park in St. Florence. And here you'll find a photo album of our visit to the Morgan factory in Malvern Link.
The Anchor Inn in Hartfield, in the North of Ashdown Forest.
Cat in Hartfield.
Me in the Ashdown Forest Llama Park (photo by Laura). Here you'll find a photo album of our visit to the Llama Park.
A raindeer, an alpaca and people walking a llama in the Ashdown Forest Llama Park.
The house at Uppark.
Kite at Uppark.
View from the house.
Stairs to the tunnels underneath the buildings.
The tunnels were used by the servants, between the main building and the separate stables and kitchen.
Part of a wall in Glastonbury (phone photo by Laura). We visit Judge and Fiona, and we spend some time in and around Glastonbury with them.
The living room of our cottage in St. Florence, in the Southwest of Wales.
Our terrace and garden (phone photo by Laura).
More terrace.
Gull and magpie.
The remnants of the mill in St. Florence.
The church in St. Florence.
Laura.
Landshipping is a small, quiet village on the banks of a bay.
Landshipping.
Landshipping, view of the other side of the bay.
Graveyard in Angle.
Cat in Angle.
Laura.
We walk along the coast in the vicinity of Angle.
Rocks with striking colours at the coast.
The coast.
Laura.
A fort near Angle.
The fog starts to get thicker.
Flowers.
Me (photo by Laura).
Surrounding area of Angle.
The wind plays organ music on the fence.
Electricity.
Two rhinoceros in Manor House Wildlife Park, near St. Florence. Here you'll find more photos of our visit to Manor House Wildlife Park.
Two pigs.
Carew Castle.
Carew Castle.
Laura.
Carew Castle.
Carew Castle wall.
Carew Castle.
Carew Castle.
Carew Castle, with a view of the tidal mill in the distance.
Carew Tidal Mill.
Inside the mill.
View of Carew Castle.
Laura.
Tenby is a touristic seaside town.
Tenby's beach.
Tenby.
Tenby.
Laura at the parking in Manorbier.
Our walk starts near the beach.
The view looking back.
Manorbier Church (photo by Laura).
Me in Manorbier (photo by Laura).
Laura.
Manorbier.
Laura.
Laura.
Bumble bee.
Suddenly the path goes down steeply to the sea.
Laura.
The path leads to another path, half the height downward.
Falcon.
Laura at our resting place.
Fishing.
Laura.
Coast.
Beach.
Me in a tearoom in Manorbier (photo by Laura).
Ye Old Ferrie Inn in Symonds Yat. There has been an inn at this place since 1473. Our room is the one on the corner at the top.
Inside Ye Old Ferrie Inn.
The ferrie.
View from our room.
Dog.
The ferrie.
We spend a night in Stanbrook Abbey in Worcestershire, a former monastery converted to a hotel.
A swing that wasn't meant for swinging.
The view from our room.
The tower of Stanbrook Abbey.
Stanbrook Abbey.
We have booked a guided tour at the Morgan factory in Malvern Link and go check it out a day early. Here I am at the old front door of the factory (photo by Laura). Here you'll find more photos of our visit to the Morgan factory.
At the Morgan factory.
At the Morgan factory.
At the end of our holiday we visit the Isle of Sheppey for a day. It looks very different from the rest of the South of England. And it is very empty (phone photo by Laura).
Sheppey.
Lots of grain fields.
And combine harvesters.
Laura on the terrace of our hotel, in Eastchurch.
Laura near the water.
Sheppey.
Sheppey.
Taking a break in our walk.
A break.
A church.
The road back home.
Sheppey (phone photo by Laura).