Portmeirion

PORTMEIRION-A Lovely Place to visit. You will find Portmeirion in the northern part of Wales it is a popular resort on the coast of Snowdonia. When I first visited Portmeiron for the first time I just fell in love with the place. It was like visiting a magical village with its colourful painted houses and cottages and arches etc.Yes it has an Italian flavour to it and I was certainly very amazed with the various buildings and fountains and courtyards So who created this wonderful place- Clough Williams-Ellis who was an architect had a vision and created Portmeirion just only a few miles from his family home. In the 1930s it ...  Read the complete review

Now portmeirion I have visited on so many occasions since I have had a home in Wales for so many years and every time I think it is fantastic so I have decided to tell you in this review why it is such a fabulous place to visit if you get the chance. I have been at least ten times and would go again in a second so here it is. The address is as follows: Portmeirion Gwynedd Wales LL48 6ER Now Portmeirion is in a fantastic place and very easy to find when you are driving around Wales. I am not sure how you would get there by public transport but the car park is massive and free so you are fine from that perspective. Also I ...  Read the complete review

Warning: this review is somewhat unorthodox, in that it includes an account of my journey to Portmeirion as well as my experience of the destination itself. Those of you that are interested only in Portmeirion the destination are therefore advised to skip my preamble & proceed directly to ‘THE DESTINATION’ (see below). THE HOUSEGUEST… It was the Thursday before the August Bank Holiday, 2003. It had been an inauspicious week, but we had finally managed to put a long-standing and unwelcome houseguest onto a coach to Gatwick, and he’d jetted back to Thailand to take up where he’d left off eight weeks earlier, teaching his unique patois to ...  Read the complete review

The perfect holiday spot if you fancy imagining that you are in a Mediterranean or anItalian resort – but it’s in Wales, so the weather could let you down a little bit! Portmeirion is a place I’ve always meant to visit, I knew how charming it looks, due to seeing those scenes from the 60s cult TV series, “The Prisoner”. Somehow I never got there until last Summer, but I can promise you, it will be the first of many visits! It’s one of those places that, to be honest, I don’t want to tell everyone about – I’d rather it stayed our little secret, but here goes… Portmeirion Village dates from ...  Read the complete review

In the 1960’s there was a classic TV series called The Prisoner, which was considered by many to be the most unusual and thought-provoking television series ever made. When it was first shown in England in 1967 there had certainly been nothing like it before and, many would argue, nothing has surpassed it since. The star of the series was Patrick McGoohan who played a man who resigns from a top secret position and is subsequently abducted from his London home. He finds himself in a beautiful village where everything is bright and cheerful - the people, their clothes, the buildings, the flowers. The main form of transport was the mini moke (remember those) ...  Read the complete review