Well yep I was another year older at 35 but I wasn’t prepared for what awaited me at Portmeirion!
What a strange place, you might remember it from the 60’s series ‘The Prisoner’ starring Patrick McGoohan, and a place you wouldn’t want to left alone!
Despite the obvious romanticism surrounding this enchanting part of North Wales, it’s only once you see the tourists leave and find out that no one actually lives there, you then realise its just you and a few other explorers lured in by Clough William Ellis’s dream of creating a habitat influenced by the colourful mediterranean costal towns and one that compliments its natural environment.
It’s a great place and as you explore you soon begin to understand the illusion that reveals itself during your stay (watch those second floor windows very carefully!).
If you get the chance go there, but maybe stay outside ‘the village’ as once the place empties you begin to feel a bit of a prisoner and maybe you could be the next number 6 trying to leave!
P.S. The tucker at Castle Deudraeth is absolutely pucker!!
