Llangollen
On our way eastwards across Wales, we saw many farmhouses similar to this one:
And lots of countryside as beautiful as the scene below:
We reached the village of Llangollen and stopped to explore it.
A tourist railway runs a few kilometres up the valley from this station.
But Lllangollen is famous not only for beautiful Welsh scenery and tourism.
It is the meeting-place for an annual Eistedfodd, or traditional Welsh celebration of song and poetry.
Choirs from around the world regularly compete at this event, and the New Zealand National Male Choir was planning to attend in 2010. Several friends from New Plymouth were keen singers in the choir and were heavily involved.
We walked around the village and found the Eistedfodd venue on the railway station side of the river. Here it is in its off-season format. But when the festivals are happening, the huge tent is extended to accommodate the choirs and the audiences.
Our New Plymouth friends, Ian and Jocelyn Gabites, were in the UK reconnoitering for the choir's tour, and we had caught up with them in London and shared a cruise on the Thames.
Here we are on the Embankment that day, before we boarded our launch for the trip.
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