A 'Long' Welsh Goodbye.

...but just hopefully, 'Auf Wiedersehen'.


Seriously, seriously hoping to be a little more regular now. I've finally invested in a brand new laptop so it won't take me 10 million years to get anything done any more. Seriously, just editing a few of my holiday photos over the weekend took less than an hour from import to upload, so much better than the close to 3 hours it had been taking in recent months. I'm not trying to make excuses for my absence but I think it's pretty well justified, doing everything on that old thing was such a chore. With that being said, for 7 years and the amount of hard work it's been through, from CVs to final projects, my old Macbook didn't have too bad an innings.

These are some photos from the beginning of the month, when I said 'g'day, mate' to one of my closest friends as he totters over to the other side of the world with his girlfriend for the foreseeable.

I'm actually a little annoyed with myself as I somehow managed to delete the Friday evening up to the middle of Saturday from my camera. I've tried recovering it but unfortunately it hasn't worked. Still, I'm really pleased with the photos I did take. I also took some video so I'm hoping it will still work even with the missing files. These things happen though, I guess, and it doesn't take away from the fact it was a really nice weekend.

Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls...

Next on our whistle-stop tour of our friend's local tourist attractions was, oh you know, just Wales(!)
I remember trips to Wales that took hours from Surrey and we had so many lovely family holidays to Llansteffan and Tenby. How lucky Richard and Fran are that such a beautiful part of the UK is so close-by.


I went for butternut squash pasta with pine nut salsa and vegetable tempura, Fran's fish and chips were eyeing me up but it was still delicious all the same.


That view. ♥


With a little help from Fran's parents, via a vague telephone call that would have been really specific if we really knew where were going, after a pretty special lunch at the picturesque Harp Inn, we made our way to Warren Wood. Set in Radnor Forest, Warren Wood comes complete with it's own (hilariously named) waterfall called Water-Break-Its-Neck.






We were so spoilt to have the place pretty much all to ourselves, particularly the waterfall. If it had been as rammed with tourists as I'd imagine it would be at a warmer time of year it probably would have been terrible. The photos, including the goofy 'look at what a fun time we're having' ones, don't really do the place justice, I haven't seen anywhere so beautiful in such a long time.