Signs of Welcome

So many of the sites we visited in our recent journey around Northern Europe and the UK rolled out the welcome mat for us. Each of these images is a great memory jogger for me.

Liverpool, England

National Waterfront Museum, Swansea, Wales

Stonehenge, England (I resisted temptation)

Salisbury, England

Tenby, Wales

Porvoo, Finland

Castletown, Isle of Man

Ards Peninsula, Northern Irelaand

Reykjavik, Iceland

Calne, Wiltshire, England

Saarema, Estonia

Kristianopel, Sweden (I passed on the camping)

Karlskrona, Sweden

Tormamn, Sweden

Salisbury, England

Reykjavik, Iceland - This was an education!

Llanfoist, Wales 

Liverpool, England

Torshavn, Faroe Islands

Ullapool, Scotland

Spread a little love

 Some people and places we visited on our recent journey embraced that symbol of love, the heart.

Swansea, Wales

On a footpath in London

At lunch in Pret a Manger

In Bruges

In Porvoo, Finland

Porvoo, Finland

Swansea, Wales

Covent Garden

Salisbury, England

Dunkirk, France

Hamburg, Germany

Liverpool, England

Liverpool, England

On board Seven Seas Navigator

Up with the Birds

I'm usually in the land of nod when the sun appears, but this morning due to a severe case of jet lag, I found myself awake well before dawn.

That unusual event deserved recognition so I grabbed my phone, popped out on the deck and snapped the scene in our backyard.

The Backyard at Dawn

Robert and I have just returned from a seven week trip in the UK and Northern Europe. In the coming weeks I will post a few photos from our journey here on this blog. 

Top Wales Attraction

Today we visited the fabulous St Fagans National Museum of history https://museum.wales/stfagans/. It was in stark contrast to the disappointing Blists Hill Victorian Village we saw in England last week.

This huge open air museum featured a castle and a host of relocated buildings from all around Wales which catered to our interests in architecture, gardens and history. This site was the best we visited during our time in Wales.

 
I am finding it so difficult to select photos from today's excursion - perhaps I need to make more than one post :-))

These images are from the Castle which is in its original location on the site.