Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Larry, my daughter lives in Menai Bridge and we visit often. She went to Bangor to do her (Marine Biology) PhD, fell in love with the area and has never left. Anglesea is fantastic with ocean and mountain views. We were looking for holiday home there but prices have gone berserk. A (not modernised to my taste) lighthouse keepers cottage at Penmon (the point overlooking Puffin Island, if you remember) is for sale for ?800,000 ( over $1,5m) !!!!!!!!! A fantastic location but still! It was probably not worth 1/4 of that 5 years ago. Maybe with global warming it will get more pleasant weather than the south of France :-) I am afraid you are mistaken about Manchester though, it is about 1 1/2 hours away east on the A55 then North on the M6. The M5 is South from Birmingham. cheers, Frank On 22 Jan, 2007, at 14:22, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: > > On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:32 PM, Steve wrote: > >> >>> I've had my M8 for two days now. There are a few (very few) >>> images here... >>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/sunsworth/M8/> >>> So far I am very, very pleased with the M8 - I'm even considering >>> doing >>> a PAW again this year ;-). >>> >>> I only wish that the weather had been better this weekend. >>> Steve > > > Very nice images. I lived on Anglesley for several years, next to > the Menai Strait, about halfway between Menai Bridge and > Llanfairpwllgwyngllgogerychwyrndrobwillandtsiliogogogoch (Llanfair > PG). We used to take visitors to climb Mt. Snowdon, visible in the > background in your Snowdonia picture. If it wasn't raining heavily, > the weather is as good as it gets in the winter. > > The drive time from Snowdonia to Manchester is about 2.5 hours on M5. > > Larry Z > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information