A lovely, sunny summer's day on the North Wales coast, and where better to enjoy the weather than strolling around the historical town of Caernarfon on the shores of the Menai Straits.
With its Unesco World Heritage castle, one of the most complete and magnificent of those built by the english king Edward the First to subdue the welsh, the town is a fascinating place to explore.
...Read moreA rare clear sky at sunset at the end of a lovely late spring day on the North Wales coast found my wife Liz and I parked up on the seafront at Rhyl.
This is one of my favourite places to watch a sunset from, with acres of shining sand stretched out before us at low tide and the giant turbines of the Gwynt-y-Môr offshore windfarm punctuating the horizon of the Irish Sea.
...Read moreThis time lapse video captures some of the violent solar storm during the night of 19th January 2026, when the skis over North Wales lit up with the vivid greens and reds of the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights.
The location I picked for the filming was the Prestatyn overlook car park, giving unobstructed views to the north, out over the Irish Sea and Prestatyn, with the lights of the giant turbines of the Gwynt-y-Môr lined up in serried ranks on the horizon.
...Read moreI'd recently bought a new video camera, a DJI ActionPro5, one of those small but mighty action cameras that sporty people use to capture their antics.
Well, I wasn't intending to jump off a cliff or ski down a mountain, but I was very keen to capture some of the beautiful and dramatic landscapes around my north Wales homes, as seen from my perspective, driving a car along some of the loveliest roads in the world.
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