Monday, 23 February 2009

Menhir de Kerloas mear Brest, Finistere,Brittany, France

This is France's tallest standing stone 31 feet/9 metres and is believed to be 5,000 years old.
Newlyweds would visit the stones.
It is properly the westernmost standing stone in France as well.

Tuesday, 16 December 2008

Zennor, Cornwall, England

D.H. Lawrence, the author came here in 1916 with his german-born wife, but was ordered to leave by police because of suspicions they were german spies.

There is also a mermaid legend.

There is also the 5,000 years-old Zennor Quoit, a capstoned stone age tomb.

Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Lake Bala, Wales/Cymru

This is the only place where the gwyniad, a trout-like fish can be found.

The river Dee flows north out of the lake.

Monday, 26 May 2008

Pumpsaint, Dyfed , Wales/cymru

The Romans mined gold here for their coinage, the gold having been mined since Iron Age man.
Pumpsaint means five saints

Whitesand Bay, near st david Dyfed wales/cymru

It is here that that the Stonehenge bluestones were supposedly transported from to Salisbury Plain.

St Patrick supposedly made his last journey to Ireland from here

Friday, 23 May 2008

Naeroyfjord, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway/Norge

This 17km fjord is the narrowest fjord in Europe, only 300 metres wide at one point.
http://www.naeroyfjord.com/

Carnmenyn, mynydd Preseli, Dyfed Wales/Cymru

Carnmenyn is where the bluestones erected at Stonehenge were quarried about 4,000 years ago.