Hi to All I'm back in London again. The blog has been backdated from last Wednesday (see below).
North Wales was about as unlike Egypt as possible - very cold, very wet, very green and very hilly. I wore about 5 layers of clothing under a ski jacket and I was still cold when outside. London, wet and miserable, is less beautiful but a lot warmer than north Wales at this time of year.
A completely off-topic aside - if anyone based in the southern UK is interested in the Welsh prehistoric past, there is currently an exhibition in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff entitled Origins: In Search of Early Wales. I excavated at Pontnewydd in the 1980s, so I'll almost certainly find the time to head to south Wales to see the exhibition at some point.
There are a couple of articles littered around the Web about it. Here are two of them:
IC Wales
BBC News
Jonathan Jones, on the Guardian Unlimited, has an article about the possibilities of finding rock art in Britain (a suggestion apparently made by the exhibition), which also takes a tour around some of the French rock art examples.
All the best North Wales was about as unlike Egypt as possible - very cold, very wet, very green and very hilly. I wore about 5 layers of clothing under a ski jacket and I was still cold when outside. London, wet and miserable, is less beautiful but a lot warmer than north Wales at this time of year.
A completely off-topic aside - if anyone based in the southern UK is interested in the Welsh prehistoric past, there is currently an exhibition in the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff entitled Origins: In Search of Early Wales. I excavated at Pontnewydd in the 1980s, so I'll almost certainly find the time to head to south Wales to see the exhibition at some point.
There are a couple of articles littered around the Web about it. Here are two of them:
IC Wales
BBC News
Jonathan Jones, on the Guardian Unlimited, has an article about the possibilities of finding rock art in Britain (a suggestion apparently made by the exhibition), which also takes a tour around some of the French rock art examples.
Andie
1 comment:
Welcome back with this wonderful picture: it'like Scottish Higlands!
I like that kind of weather: I hate north Italy in summer, with sun, hot, humidity and mosquitos!
I went in Scotland many years ago and I think it was the best holidays of my life: I loved the train journey from Inverness to Kyle of Lochals.
And I loved scottish beer...:-)
Obviuosly, when I went in Egypt I've seen better things, because I love Egypt for its ancient civilization; and desert is wonderful at dawn.
But that country is too sunny for me.....
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