Wholistic Arts

Guimaraes, Portugal We headed towards Porto to try to find the remains of a celtic town (Castro in Spanish, Citania in Portuguese). We got a bit lost on the way, and ended up finding the beautiful historic city of Guimaraes. We found this Templar guarding the entrance to the castle there! (He's supposed to be the first King of Portugal). After lunch, we headed to a different 'citania' than originally planned - Citania de Briteiros. This is a the remains of a vast city on a mountainside - apparently a very cosmopolitan place at the time of the Romans. The whole city has a gutter that would have had water running down from the natural spa at the top. At the bottom of the hill is a pool for bathing in the spa waters (unfortunately empty, but with renovation work going on at the moment). Vic

Druid's Circle, Penmaenmawr, Wales We had a little glimpse of 'summer' on Wednesday. James and Dave (dad) went to sea-side for a drive (James drove 276miles! Still learning!). We went to Prestatyn, Rhyl etc. on to Conwy, then Penmaenmawr. There, up in the Welsh mountain is a treasure called 'Druids Circle' , it is a fantastic ring of around 30 stones and it stands on the headland of Penmaenmawr above Conwy in Wales. It is close to a prehistoric trackway and three other stone circles. It has a portalled entrance consisting of 4 stones and may have been raised as early as 3000BC. We parked and walked for miles, then came down as the sun was setting, watched it go down over sea while eating curry and chips, really good. Dave