We advocate Wales. We didn’t get to see enough of it ourselves. Maybe another trip, on another sabbatical…

I haven’t spent much time in Quebec — a few days in Montreal, but none in Quebec city or further afield in the province. Where will you be?

W.r.t. food: if you’re in the big city, I don’t think you’ll have a lot of problem. I found that in Montreal, at least, there was a wide variety of cuisines to choose from, and even the couple of French restaurants that I ate at offered more veg variety than did Paris.

Old castles and archaeology in general are fascinating. It really sparks my imaginative streak, and I spend my whole time wandering around trying to picture life then. The buildings are kind-of spooky, but, as you say, thrilling. The age is palpable.

Let’s see… We’ve never gotten to take you out to Chaco Canyon have we? It has some of the same sense. Ancient structures and a mysterious history. If you’ve been to Mesa Verde, you get some of the same sense. It’s fascinating to contemplate that the castles we were seeing in Wales were roughly of the same era as the structures at Mesa Verde, and Chaco Canyon is even older.

A very tulgey wood indeed, and again thanks for posting a link to this travelblog in your LJ. I hope to do as well at chronicling things in our trip to Quebec this summer. So, French (Canadian) food doesn’t sound terribly vegetarian friendly, does it? I wonder how my hubby will do.

Sorry for not keeping to the point of this post … I read several of them in a row this morning.

I loved those pictures, and I agree about the palpable feeling of time’s wear on these castles. In some ways it reminds me of castles we saw as a family in the Black Forest region of Germany, many years ago. Powerful crumbling structures high up on hills and now just faint echoes of their former grandeur. Makes me think a little bit about the haunting imagery of a flooded New York full of ghostrly skyscrapers from AI. While I didn’t spend enough time in Wales to do anything as magnificent as this, the rolling green pastures and craggy hills in the mist made quite an impression on me and I want to travel there again soon.