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The beach in Llanelli, which is pronnounced ``channechlee'' if you use the
``ch'' in ``loch''.
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Another view from the beach. It's very windy, but you can't tell that from
the pictures I guess. Wind+Sand=Pain.
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There was a nice grassy area near the beach area. You can see lots of
the town in the background.
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This is the view from above Aberyswyth.
It's looking down on the town.
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A cliff north of Aberyswyth. In my touring, Wales had the best cliffs.
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This is th trail that goes along the cliffs in Wales. It's rather precarious.
A barbed-wire fence on your right, and cliffs on your left, and sometimes you
get about a foot or two in between.
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This is where I spent the night. After walking a couple of miles, I got to
a little farmhouse and a sign that said ``Trail closed due to foot and mouth.
2000 pound fine for violation.'' I was looking for a little campsite someone
said was around. Anyway, it was getting kind of late, and out came someone
from the house walking their dog. This guy said that he didn't live there
(they were renting the place from the farmer on their vacation or something),
but that if I wanted to spend the night down the cliffs (there was a little
path) on the little grassy area, he wouldn't tell anyone and nobody would come
shooting. So we chit-chatted a little bit (his wife is from America) and
I slept here.
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Sunset from where I was camping.
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A view in the morning.
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I met up with Amy in Oxford that weekend. She thought that a sign that said
``humped zebra crossing'' was pretty funny. So do I. So should you.
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Any pets her own pint-sized guard. Isn't the little tuft thing on his head
cute?
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This is in the John Knox house in Edinburgh. John Knox is cool. I enjoyed
this place. You should go.
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I shot this because I thought it was neat to have the super-old castle
building in the background and a modern building in the foreground.
But a litter basket got there, too.
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The same building, but now you get the cool edinburgh-hill-park-thing
in the bacground.
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These are pictures from going up to the top of Ben Nevis, the highest point
in the British Isles.
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Another nice view. Scotland was very beautiful.
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A goat tring to stare me off the trail. I won.
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I thought in Three Billy Goat's Gruff, the goats were above the bridge...
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Another great view from the trail up to Ben Nevis
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A nice little mountain Loch.
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Another (higher) view of the mountain loch with background mountains.
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The beautiful Highlands of Scotland
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You can see the trail plainly here.
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Getting close to the top of the world.
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A view of some of the nice mountain lakes and stuff, and the gold from
the sunset.
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More Mountains
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I like mountain sunsets, don't you?
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This is me from near the top of Ben Nevis, wearing my Go-Lite rain jacket
and carrying water, a sweatshirt, and a snack.
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The top of Ben Nevis
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This is the West Highland Way, the trail that goes from just south of
Fort William to just north of Glasogow. It's like the AT, except it's
easy, beautiful, and fun.
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On the West Highland Way, instead of hiking through a forest with an occasional
view, you get to hike through a view with an occasional clump of trees.
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The highlands are pasture land for sheep and goats and stuff. This is some
sort of a corral thing.
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The trail and the mountains.
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Another view of the West Highlands of Scotland.
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A Thistle-bordered view
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Okay, so I know it's lots of mountain shots that start to all look the same,
but after hiking in the AT and spending time in cities and stuff, it was
just amazingly beautiful. Plus, I wasn't about to run out of film, since
I'd just picked up some more.
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A view back at the trail.
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This is me on the trail.
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More great views.
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As I travel farther south, the mountains are less rugged.
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Okay, We're no longer in Scotland, but in Galway, Ireland. I met back up
with Amy. There were a bunch of protesters outside protesting McDonalds
for some reason, so we decided to go in for some ice cream.
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