My apologies for neglecting my blogging duties for the past week or so but, as mentioned in my previous post, Jude and I have been in quarantine in the UK. This severely hampers one’s ability to take and post interesting photographs.

However, I did take the opportunity to go the ‘scenic route’ to post our COVID tests in the nearby village and I did manage to get a few evening sunset pictures only a few yards up the road from where we were staying.

Our cottage (see pic 1) was in the small village of Ynys and looked out over the Glaslyn/Dwyryd estuary to the hills and mountains of Snowdonia. On the far side of the estuary, was the small village of Portmeirion, (pic 3), which is built in an Italianate style (more info and pics here) and famous for being the setting for the 1960’s cult TV series, The Prisoner, (more info here). This seemed quite appropriate given our situation. I fully envisaged a great white balloon coming to capture us if we strayed from our cottage! As it was, Jude had 6 phone calls in the 10 days and I had none!

In case you are wondering, all of our tests (i.e. the one before we left Switzerland and those on Day 2 and Day 8 of our isolation) came back negative. 👍👍😊 So we were then free to explore… See next post(s).

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  1. picpholio Avatar

    So glad that you passed the covid test well and you made some very nice pictures goig to the test center. Happy to have you back healthy and well 🙂

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    1. Alittlebitoutoffocus Avatar

      Thanks. We were always confident after having 2 vaccinations each. 😀

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  2. blhphotoblog Avatar

    Lovely part of the world, when the sun shines!
    Lechyd da!

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    1. Alittlebitoutoffocus Avatar

      Yes, I have a few more pictures to come (with sunshine!) I still can’t get my head around all those consonants though. I cannot imagine what Welsh Countdown is like. 🤔

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      1. blhphotoblog Avatar

        Looking forward to your next posts.
        5 letters less!

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        1. Alittlebitoutoffocus Avatar

          😊

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  3. bayphotosbydonna Avatar

    Love those sunset photos, Mike!! Thumbs up on your negative results!!

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    1. Alittlebitoutoffocus Avatar

      Thanks Donna. I know you like a good sunset. Another to come later today… 😊

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  4. […] mentioned in one of my previous posts, our cottage looked across to the hills and mountains of Snowdonia. One of them, called Cnicht, is […]

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