Portmeirion Village Portmeirion is a sort of model village where no one lives but you can stay in various cottages or the hotel when visiting. The village is in Gwynedd, North Wales and was designed and built by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis between 1925 and 1975. Strangely as it is on the Welsh shore he chose to design this village in the style of an Italian village. It is now a very popular tourist attraction managed by and owned by a charitable trust. SIR CLOUGH WILLIAM- ELLIS Clough William-Ellis was an architect and obviously a very wealthy man as well as rather eccentric in my view. If you search on Wikipedia his name brings up the most ...  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