On a grey, cold winter's day like today, it's a real pleasure to look back on a warm, sunny and very colouful day out last summer to the Italianate village of Portmeirion, nestled on the North Wales coast.
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More views from the other-worldly Italianate village of Portmeirion on the North Wales coast, crammed full of visual treats both large and small.
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Having just finished a mammoth set of photos from the Italian lakes, we're back on an Italian theme again here at goHOWiE.com.
However, this time we're closer to home, exploring the strange and wonderful Italianate village of Portmeirion near Portmadoc on the coast of North Wales.
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Back to good old North Wales for today's offering here at goHOWiE.com, featuring a time lapse video of the waning crescent moon, bathed in earthlight and filmed from the slopes of Moel Famau on a cold and damp winter's morning.
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The final set of photos from the two weeks that my wife Liz and I enjoyed exploring the beauties of northern Italy.
Normally we would avoid big cities, but an invitation from my friend and colleauge Attilio Alessio to spend the day with him looking around Milan was too good an opportunity to pass by.
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Off the beaten track.
These photos are from less well visited places around the lakes of northern Italy, which my wife Liz and I expolred during our two week stay in this stunning landscape.
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Some more images from the town of Riva del Garda, right at the northermost point of Lake Garda in northern Italy.
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A visit to the town of Riva del Garda, right at the northermost point of Lake Garda, proved to be one of the highlights of the holiday my wife Liz and I enjoyed in northern Italy earlier this year.
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Final photos from the magnificent Villa Monastero at Varenna on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy.
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The Villa Monastero, just outside Varenna on the shores of Lake Como in northern Italy, was one of the highlights of the two weeks my wife Liz and I spent exploring the region.
A wonderful combination of the natural and manmade.
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Just outside of Varenna on Lake Como, the beautiful Villa Monastero proved to be one of the highlights of the two weeks that my wife Liz and I spent exploring the lakes and mountains of northern Italy earlier this year.
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Yet more images featuring the beautiful town of Varenna on the shores of Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy.
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A brief interlude from the beauties of the Italian Lakes to bring some equally beautiful, but a bit chillier, time lapse videos, shot recently around the coasts, mountains, forests and towns of North Wales.
I love to travel to new places, but I love coming back home just as much.
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Some more images featuring the lovely town of Varenna on the shores of Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy.
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More images from the beautiful town of Varenna on the shores of Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy.
WARNING - There's plenty more images of Varenna to come!
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Reckoned to be one of the loveliest town on Lake Como, in the mountains of northern Italy, Varenna proved to be a great place for my wife Liz and I to stay during our holiday in the region.
Varenna itself proved to be highly photogenic, and I confess I went into a photographic feeding frenzy while we were there.
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From our holiday B&B near Lake Garda, my wife Liz and I took a day out to explore around Lake Iseo, just a little to the west.
Much smaller and less developed than Lake Garda, we found Lake Iseo to be a jewel of a place, offering much more of the authentic Italian lifestyle than the tourist hotspots.
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A few days staying in the medieval town of Castellaro Lagusello, just to the south of Lake Garda in northern Italy, proved to be a visual treat for my wife Liz and I towards the end of our two weeek holiday spent exploring this beautiful part of the world.
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A drive up the spectacular mountain road from Lake Idro in northern Italy took my wife Liz and I to the rather steep little medieval town of Bardolino.
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A day spent exploring the beautiful scenery around Lake Idro in the mountains of northern Italy.
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A diversion over to Lake Garda, taking in some of the lovely lakeside scenery on offer in this stunning region of northern Italy.
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Some more of the charming Italian towns and villages on and around Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy.
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Images featuring town of Nesso above Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy, together with photos of light on the landscape from Olcio on the shores of the lake.
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More views from around the beautiful and historical locations on the shores of Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy.
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One of the largest towns on the shores of Lake Como, nestled in the mountains of northern Italy, is Lecco, right at the southernmost end of the lake.
Although Lecco is quite a bustling, semi-industrial town it still has a charming waterfront, and well worth the couple of euros parking fee that Liz and I paid to enjoy a few hours exploring the architeture and scenery.
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A few of the smaller, less popular towns dotted around the shores of Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy.
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A range of photos showing aspects of the small town of Domaso, nestled on the shore of Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy.
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A range of photos showing aspects of the small town of Dervio, nestled on the shore of Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy.
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A selection of views out over Lake Como in northern Italy, all captured from the comfort of the balcony on the holiday apartment that my wife Liz and I were staying in earlier this year.
Photography doesn't get much easier than this!
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Continuing our tour around the beautiful lakes of northern Italy, this is the popular tourist town of Bellagio, right at the centre of Lake Como.
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It was a long drive from our holiday apartment at Lake Como in the mountains of northern Italy, over the border to Lugano in neighbouring Switzerland.
But well worth the effort for Liz and I to enjoy such magnificent scenery, even if two gelatos cost a small fortune!
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