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Touring Britain bit by bit with a pair of boots, a few bicycles, a lot of trains and a bag of lenses. I take pictures and then I write about them.

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Location: Moel-y-gest

There's a hill at Portmadog behind the Black Rock Sands, a moel, Moel-y-gest.

Black Rock Sands

A 200 metre grey and green granite lump.

Moel-y-gest

Paths weave through the lower slopes, past the grazing sheep and dairy cows.

Moel-y-gest

Converging, often merging into the heather and bracken, meandering through the rocky plug of the peak.

Moel-y-gest

Where you can finally stop for a rest on the iron age fort, above the estuary of the Afon Glaslyn.

Moel-y-gest

Look back.

Black Rock Sands

Peer down on Tremadog.

Tremadog

As the sun dips behind the true mountains of Snowdonia.

mountain!

And the evening clouds roll over the rippling ridge of Lleyn Peninsula and disperse out over the Irish Sea.

Lleyn

And the long summer grass shivers in the dying light.


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