Author Jan Morris with cat, Llanystumdwy, Wales
Nant Gwynant valley above the town of Beddgelert in North Wales
Caernarfon Castle at dusk, Wales
Young Welsh farmers show sheep, Anglesey County, Wales
Welsh men's choir, Tanronnen Inn, Beddgelert, Wales
Colwyn River flowing through Beddgelert, Wales
Harlech Medieval Society knight, Wales
Girl in rowboat on Llanddwyn Island, North Wales
Train conductor on the Blaenau Ffestiniog Railway, Wales
Boy with dog overlook Dee Valley, Wales
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WalesWriter Jan Morris relaxes with Ibsen, her Norwegian Forest Cat, in her home in Llanystumdwy, Wales. "Atop the thick-walled stone house is a creaky weathervane," says Traveler author Michael Shapiro, "a symbol of Jan's dual Welsh and English ancestry: E and W mark east and west, G and D stand for Gogledd and De, Welsh words for north and south." Shapiro, who was invited to Morris's home for tea, says the renowned writer "has spent much of her life traveling and writing incisive books about Venice, Oxford, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Trieste, among other places. For the past several decades, she has always returned to this small house in remote northwestern Wales."
Photograph by Jim Richardson

Mystical Wales

See photos of Wales in this travel photo gallery from National Geographic.

October 20, 2010

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