By the way - Marta is the driving force behind all the Heil archives ... i put together the family tree on software that Les has with all her unput - she can whip off the names and dates as if 6 generations back were her current kids...incredible and someone eventually MUST carry on with the family archive business - her words.
We left early and were on our way, quite happily, Les loves leaving as early as possible...then I saw a cafe by the side of the road. Loving a great cuppa in the morning, I convinced him to do a u-turn and go back. you have no idea how he hates to backtrack, but being the good guy he is, he did it for me...and the breakfast inside was amazing and huge and delicious and he forgave me quickly !!!!!
When we finished eating this huge typical English breakfast of huge bacon that looks like Canadian bacon, baked beans, toast, sausage, mushrooms and eggs, on we went.
I thought we were just going for an aimless drive north and across the countryside to then head south to Les's nephew's house ... suddenly, les pulls into a drive and starts heading towards a castle - wow, we are going to a castle I said smiling ... what castle he says ... that one - and I point - nope he says and soon we get to parking lot and get out and head for Portmeirion. which i have never heard of. it is early. we are the first visitors and i soon realize we are at a pretend italian village. we get tickets to enter and walk around a fairy tale village some man created years ago. His goal was to bring the feel of Italy to a vacation resort without interfering with nature. You guys, it is small and unique and he definitely succeeded. Quite a place - really really wonderful ... see the pics on facebook !!
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