Well, holiday is almost over. I didn’t get to the library last week, so I have to go in tomorrow. (But at least I don’t have to go back to smelly old London for a few more days.)
I’ve read plenty of fun stuff (especially Christopher Brookmyre); watched videos (last couple of days have been catching up on missed early episodes of Queer as Folk - the British original, not that rubbish American version); eating far too much (I made coq au vin the other night, for the first time; tonight however was time for an old favourite, tortilla. And let’s not talk about how much cheese I got from the deli… although it was exceedingly good cheese). I’ll have a few more photos for you over the next few days. For now, just one. I showed you my local pub the other day. There are a lot of ‘em in Aber, from trendy student bars to cosy old-fashioned hostelries.
But there are also many chapels, although it’s probably fair to say that the town’s nonconformist heyday is long past. (But I think it’s true that chapel and church here still play a far more significant role than they do in most English towns…) There’s still a dizzying array of denominations, often in both ‘English’ and ‘Welsh’ versions. Some are modest, but there are some very grand nineteenth-century buildings too. This is Seion Welsh Congregationalist chapel, built in the 1870s.
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