An Early Borth
May. 19th, 2021 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
steepholmWe took advantage of the Coronavirus relaxation to go to Borth, where we stayed with my brother and partner - the first night not in my own bed since, I think, a Glasgow hotel in January 2020.
Ayako very much took to the village and the life, and it was a happy break. She's not quite ready for Susan Cooper yet, but made some inroads into Nancy Bond's Borth-based fantasy, A String in the Harp. Walks to Ynyslas (with a view over the river to the tantalizingly close Aberdovey, the very place where young Gwion/Taliesin was tangled in the salmon traps of Elffin) and up to the monument made it all very real. We also took a walk through the 4,500-year-old tree stumps of the woodland that once covered the Drowned Hundred...
Not that Susan C was forgotten. Much as Tethys is appeased by seeing a picture of a boat named, 'The White Lady' in Greenwitch, so the denizens of the drowned cantref are held close in the hearts of the Borth Tandoori, for behold here is none other than Gwyddno Garanhir.
Ayako very much took to the village and the life, and it was a happy break. She's not quite ready for Susan Cooper yet, but made some inroads into Nancy Bond's Borth-based fantasy, A String in the Harp. Walks to Ynyslas (with a view over the river to the tantalizingly close Aberdovey, the very place where young Gwion/Taliesin was tangled in the salmon traps of Elffin) and up to the monument made it all very real. We also took a walk through the 4,500-year-old tree stumps of the woodland that once covered the Drowned Hundred...
Not that Susan C was forgotten. Much as Tethys is appeased by seeing a picture of a boat named, 'The White Lady' in Greenwitch, so the denizens of the drowned cantref are held close in the hearts of the Borth Tandoori, for behold here is none other than Gwyddno Garanhir.