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UK Trip: Worm's Head

Hello again, faithful readers. Here is the second part of my posts about the trip I took to the UK this year. This time, it's all about the time we spent in Wales, nearby a little town called Rhossili. It's a beautiful little town, and they are trying to keep it that way because nobody can build anything there anymore.

Roger's mother, who grew up in Rhossili

A wild Welsh horse

This post focuses on a geographical feature called Worm's Head. It is an island off of the coast for most of the day, though for about a 4 hour period, the tide comes in and people are able to walk to it. Here's what it looks like:

Worm's Head, as an island

We made the walk out to Worm's Head, which was open from about 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at that time. Apparently it's a bit dangerous. I think the danger is only if you try to make it across when the tide it too high and you can get taken out to sea. For us it was just a walk across a bunch of rocks and then scaling up the hill.

Danger!

Rocks, and a view of the island

A seal that was near the island

A pretty cool natural bridge on Worm's head. We didn't make it that far.

This is when the tide was coming back in. The waves would reach higher and higher, filling in the space in the rocks.

Me

The view from higher up the coast as the tide was coming back in

A church in Rhossili

Most of the houses in the area had driveways installed with these cross bars. Apparently cars can traverse across, but animals cannot.

A giant beast dog we met. Its head is bigger than Summer's

Thanks for reading! I'll post again soon.

UK Trip: Peterborough

It's finally here. The beginning of my series of posts about my trip to the UK that happened in August of 2011. If I properly blogged that entire trip, it would take about 25 posts or so. Instead of doing that, I'm just going to post my favorite pictures from each city that I visited. That will be much easier.

With that, I'm going to get it all started with Peterborough, England. The city is actually pronounced more like 'Petahbrah' to the locals. It was our home city, in a way. Summer and I stayed there for a while with Roger, a friend we met in Korea. He was nice enough to let us stay with him in England, and he also drove us around the country. It was really nice of him.

We stayed at his house with him and his mother. When we were there, the neighbor kids almost constantly were knocking on the back door to come and say hi and see what we were up to.

This is Summer enjoying a juice box while walking around the city.

Just a random building in Peterborough.

This was a pretty great Chinese restaurant that we ate at run by a man from Hong Kong.

Summer always did the ordering when we went to Chinese restaurants. She would usually order about 5 dishes, including appetizers, soups, and main courses. It always ended up being way too much food.

Peterborough has a pretty impressive cathedral. I don't remember why Summer is laughing here, but it made for a nice picture.

One day we went for a walk along these train tracks of an old timey train.

Here is a boat with a pub in the bottom of it and a Chinese restaurant on the main floor.

I'm not even sure why, but I like this picture of the sky on the day we went to Roger's son's wedding.

Here is a picture of Isobel, you may remember this picture from when I posted it as a painting.

A lot of confetti was strewn about while we had drinks and socialized in the yard outside of the wedding hall.

Roger, dressed in his salsa dancing outfit before he performed during the reception.

Summer, dressed in her salsa dancing outfit before she performed.

A picture of our pint glasses at the Peterborough Beer Festival. It was a nice time, and over 300 'Real' ales were available for drinking.

This the immense wine aisle at a Tesco. Tescos are all over the UK. The larger ones, like here are a bit like Walmart on crack.

UK Paintings, pt.10

I'm going to try and finish up these painting posts, so I can get on with some other stuff. I have three trips during my recent vacation time that I would still like to post some pictures of. Then, more posts are sure to follow as I go back to...wait for it........Korea. Keep reading and I'll keep writing.

This painting is from a wedding I attended in Peterborough, England. The groom is the son of a friend whom I met in Korea. The bride, pictured is attempting to remove the part of her dress which got caught in a chair while walking down the isle. It made for a great photograph, and a decent painting:

I love how all of the texture turned out in this, but her face came out way too dark. I kept trying to put some yellow color on her face, which caused it to turn out green. Oops.

UK Paintings, pt.9

This is my favorite painting from the set. This painting is of my girlfriend, Summer. She invited me to go on the trip to the UK, so she's the reason I went. Here she is blowing a dandelion seeds into the summer breeze as we walk along the Thames River in London. This painting just came out so well and I really love it.

UK Paintings, pt.8

This was cool. Located in Wales near the city of Swansea is a village called Rhossili. It's a picturesque place, recently featured in the drama Torchwood. My favorite part was the island of Worm's Head. It's actually only an island for 18 to 20 hours a day. The other few hours, it's a peninsula because the tide lowers and allows daring visitors to brave the rocky passage out to the island. I recommend it.

UK Paintings, pt.7

This one is a fairly famous site in England, Stonehenge. I think that the grayish rocks reflect the grayish sky nicely, though I changed the rocks to liven up the color.

UK Paintings, pt.6

So this paintings isn't my favorite because the colors didn't work out, but it's here. It's a cow. A cow from Wales.