Welsh slate.

Great monuments to the pick and shovel at Blaenau-Ffestiniog.

[PMRPete]

I hope while you are there, you are going on the ZIP-WIRE! It's the longest in Europe and the fastest.

Enjoy yourself, Pete

[Hidden in reply to PMRPete]

Actshully Pete, I did notice that and put my right foot hard down 😱

[skischool]

You turning Welsh boyo,hope you don't develop a leek.Lovely pic old chum,where's Midge?...........skis and english cat xx

[Hidden in reply to skischool]

Nowt wrong with becoming a bit Welsh boyo, apart from the leek thing. Midge takes her job as navigator very seriously and sleeps a lot between jobs. She has banned pints until we get home.

[knitter]

Hey Don, you will be getting me homesick with all this talk of Wales and Tony with the Forest of Dean.

I have just started reading Alexander Cordells novels set in the industrial revolution in Wales too.....it must be fifty years since I read them first.....a lot of fisticuffs !

[Hidden in reply to knitter]

I remember when I first read 'How Green Was My Valley' when I was a boy back in the 40's and later seeing the film. I became fascinated by the Welsh mining communities, both coal and slate and the hardships they endured.