quick update
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quietannWe are in Hay-on-Wye, the "town of books" on the wales-ENgland border. There are approximately 35 used bookstores here, with all kinds of treasures waiting to be discovered. There are various "honesty bookshops" set up around the town for really awaful books -- they are displayed in boxes or crates, and typically there's a little box into which one deposits 30-50p per book.
Yesterday we drove south into Brecon Beacons National Park (note the NPs here aren't necessarily all "wild and unspoiled" lands; there are farms and zillions of sheep grazing all over). The roads here are classified as M (freeways), A (major roads, sometimes divided, sometimes not), B (can be anything from a well-maintained 2 lane road to a single lane with turnouts), and the unlabelled roads, which are... scary. We took one of these up from near Brecon into the mountains; there was one unmarked, more than 90 degree turn that Ben *almost* missed. Very stunning scenery. Eventually we made it to a car park and hiked to a waterfall, and upriver by another route to a place where the river *disappears* for about 600 feet... it goes underneath a limestone formation and comes out the other side. The walk back to the car park was on the road, which was very steep, but we stopped to eat wild strawberries that were growing on the verge, and to take photos.
I got after Ben a little for driving too fast, given that these are one-lane roads with tall hedgerows on either side, so one doesn't always see oncoming traffic. We also went through a couple of areas where there were unfenced sheep, and saw at least two that had been struck by cars and killed.
more later; I am at the only place in Hay where one can rent a computer, and the library is closed today, so there is a line to use this one.
Yesterday we drove south into Brecon Beacons National Park (note the NPs here aren't necessarily all "wild and unspoiled" lands; there are farms and zillions of sheep grazing all over). The roads here are classified as M (freeways), A (major roads, sometimes divided, sometimes not), B (can be anything from a well-maintained 2 lane road to a single lane with turnouts), and the unlabelled roads, which are... scary. We took one of these up from near Brecon into the mountains; there was one unmarked, more than 90 degree turn that Ben *almost* missed. Very stunning scenery. Eventually we made it to a car park and hiked to a waterfall, and upriver by another route to a place where the river *disappears* for about 600 feet... it goes underneath a limestone formation and comes out the other side. The walk back to the car park was on the road, which was very steep, but we stopped to eat wild strawberries that were growing on the verge, and to take photos.
I got after Ben a little for driving too fast, given that these are one-lane roads with tall hedgerows on either side, so one doesn't always see oncoming traffic. We also went through a couple of areas where there were unfenced sheep, and saw at least two that had been struck by cars and killed.
more later; I am at the only place in Hay where one can rent a computer, and the library is closed today, so there is a line to use this one.
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Date: 2004-06-29 07:23 am (UTC)