Julie's Boggle

This coming Monday is the “Late Summer” Bank Holiday. The last of UK’s organised bank holidays for the year. *sniff*

Our dive club is making use of the opportunity to do a 3 day dive trip to Anglesey up in Wales – so lets hope the weather bucks up, it’s been raining on and off for almost a week now!

We’re driving up on Friday and staying at a B&B in the little village of “Llanfair PG” or to use its original name (the longest placename in the UK): Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch, which means “St Mary’s church in the hollow of the white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool and the church of St Tysilio of the red cave”. Hmmm.

(The folk at Wikipedia have a lot more to say about the village, including the fact that the name was an early example of a publicity stunt from the 1860′s!)

Last time we were in Anglesey we had a most exciting drift dive down the Menai Straits. Memorable for a number of reasons, including Tom’s head-on collision with a rock and my buddy’s feet first ascent. But I suspect we won’t be doing that one again this time, not least because some of the more conservative dive leaders are coming along too!

Till next week then.

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