I can't help it - I just like the place. I also wanted to take the new camera out for a trial to see how the view from the top turned out.
I haven't got past the auto settings yet! It is far more complicated then my old manual SLR ever was and much heavier than the little Sony Cybershot I've been using so I expect a decent payoff from dragging all that extra weight around!
So - here is the view from the top. It was a rather hazy day but you can see the Severn Crossing and the coast of England across the other side.
Of course I couldn't resist taking a few pictures of the circle again. It was looking a lot better this time. The vegetation has mostly grown back and the circle and the stones are again part of the landscape.
The hazy effect is NOT my camera- just the flower heads on the grasses but they give an interesting softening contract to the stones.
We planned to take another route down this time, one we hadn't done before. It was a nice walk through the old forest even if part of Coed Gwent looked like it had never before seen human footsteps.
Can you spot the path? The bracken was head height down here. After battling through the undergrowth and some serious work with map and compass ( and GPS) the navigators got us back to the car and off to....
