Tiki Tour ~Around Ludlow

There's not much point doing a Sunday Catch-up this week as I hardly took any photos through the week. My mind has been thoroughly preoccupied with other things and I just haven't had much will to go out when I can just sit and doss on my PC, reading webcomics! The weather has picked up as the week has gone on, which has been nice, but I sadly have been a little too distracted to enjoy it.

On Monday I had a day off though and Dad said there were some local breweries he wanted to check out, so away we went. First stop was at Craven Arms, then we got some snacks and sat outside Stokesay castle to eat, but I forgot to take a photo! Very unlike me. When we moved onto Ludlow we hit the brewery there and got some mats then went onto our usual parking spot and walked up into town.
Ludlow is one of those places I go where I just take the same photos over and over again, it sems to change so little and the things that catch my eye only have so many angles. This time I was determined not to get repetitive photos, so went going past the castle i climbed up one of the walls as high I was brave enough to and got this pic. To be fair, I don't think I have been in the castle itself since I was a kid, so I could probably pay to go in and get a different shot...but I'm a cheapskate like that.

I passed Dad my camera down and took a couple of pics to show how high I climbed XD

As we were going through the town, the Specsavers had this banner in the window, which I thought was pretty cool. Nowhere else in the town has any monuments or memorials like this, so I'm not really sure about the backstory on this one, just that it's a nice gesture.

Couldn't help myself in the end. Just before we went to go back home we went up to the Ludlow viewpoint, where you can look over the whole town. And you can't really take different photos from a viewpoint, but hopefully you'll enjoy the shot anyway XD The castle and church are in the foreground, and off in the distance are the Clee hills, which are an interesting visit too. We didn't have time this time, but I do need to go again x3
So, that was pretty much my most interesting day this week, have you got anywhere you like to visit locally? I need some inspiration to get out and about!



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This Time Last Year ~August

August. Well, I always write something about how the time has jumped up on me and I totally can't believe that it's come around so fast, but it's true. I swear as I get older the time goes faster x.x (more clichés...) Hey ho. This August is going to be a busy one for Face and I, I think, but i'll let you know more about that soon. Last August was also busy, but more with daytrips with Dad, which is always fun ^^

Early on in the month we went to Gloucester as Dad had to go get his electric bike fixed there. While we waited for it to be repaired we explored the town a bit. I'd not been there before and although it wasn't a great weather day I had a really good time, there is a lot to see! I particularly liked this boat that was docked up on the river, I think inside it was a cafe? But we didn't go in, just admired it X3

Another day we went to Bridgnorth because that's something we do fairly regularly when we're not sure where else to go tiki-tour XD This engine isn't seen very often in the station so I got a few shots of it. I quite like this one as I obviously had to lean pretty far out off the platform to get quite a forwards-on shot of it.

On the way home from that trip we stopped at a local beauty spot where you can sit at a lake and watch some carp. As we sat there this massive storm cloud rolled over and I guess that reminds me that although the weather doesn't seem as nice this year as it was last year, last year had its chilly summer moments too.

Looks like August last year was all about daytrips cause this picture was taken out at Ludlow- another spot we enjoy travelling out to see. We don't come here as often though as it's a bit further out than a lot of our local haunts. Judging by the rainbow, the weather wasn't ideal this day either XD

And last is this one I quite like. Taken in Shrewsbury, I often try to get a good shot of these cannons that sit outside the castle gates, but it's one of those I take so often I feel the picture is never really up to much, it's always a bit dull. But i do quite like this angle on it, I guess I haven't taken this shot much and so with the old house in the background too it kinda has a bit of something different :]
So that was August 2014 for me, do you remember what you did?



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