Saturday, 8 October 2005

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Changing by standing still

[Conwy castle and bridges]

Today's trip to Conwy was my first since the early 1980s. It was Emma's first time visit so I was keen to show her the things I remembered, especially the castle and the bridges. Telford's graceful suspension bridge blends brilliantly in with the castle and while the later railway bridge tries the same trick it fails miserably.

I'd not known that the town itself is walled. It's also rather beautiful. Of course this change is more to do with my shift in perception than any serious construction work in the past twenty years.

We were in the town to see an exhibition of paintings of Conwy by my aunt. The works feature in her new book, Conwy Through the Seasons. It's a beautiful record of the town and surrounding area. If I don't return before another twenty years have passed (and let's face it that seems unlikely since the town is on the coast), I'll at least have something to refer to then, some way of looking back to the Conwy of today.

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