Tintern Abbey

[smallhobbit]

We should be away at the moment, celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary.  Instead we are at home, but still intending to celebrate, albeit slightly differently.

Our first day out, using our CADW membership was to Tintern Abbey, we'd been a few years ago (the guidebook is somewhere) but it was the ideal opportunity to have another visit.  Tintern Abbey is by the River Wye, and was built by Cistercian monks.  It was originally founded in 1131 with wooden buildings, and the stone buildings were begun in 1269.

 

 

Despite being a ruin, it is still very impressive.  The picture below on the left shows where the roof of the monks' dormitory once joined, and the small door below is where the monks entered the church for the night-time services.

 

I tried to get some suitably spooky photos for this time of year, but the weather/light were against me

 

However, I was pleased with this (non-spooky) photo


After this we had an excellent lunch of fish and chips in the Anchor Inn, just across the small road from the Abbey.

Comments

[rachelindeed]

Oh, what a lovely ruin and a memorable day! Congratulations to you and Mr. Smallhobbit, I hope you have many more happy years together! <333

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much. It was a good day - we're spreading our anniversary out over a number of days, so we can see family as well.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Happy anniversary! Lovely photos! Glad you had a good time!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much. I'm glad you like the photos.

[annofowlshire]

Happy anniversary! Tintern is so beautiful.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. Yes, it's lovely there.

[kingstoken]

Great pics, it looks kind of ghostly, like it would make a great setting for ghostly film.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you - it would be a great setting for a spooky film.

[clarasteam]

Happy anniversary! Lovely pictures 😍

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[corvidology]

Congratulations on your anniversary! ♥

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much.

[luthienberen]

Happy Anniversary to you and Mr Smallhobbit! May you have many more blessed years together <3

Tintern Abbey is lovely, haven't been in years. Glad you had a good time. The photos are inspire a sentiment of age and awe :-)

God bless! x

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

It was lovely to visit Tintern Abbey again, we wandered round for quite a while.

[margaret_r]

Congratulations on the anniversary!

Tintern Abbey is a great place to celebrate, it's quite lovely and the photos are gorgeous. I do particularly like that last one.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much. I was pleased with the way that photo turned out.

[adafrog]

Good pictures. Thanks for sharing.
Happy Anniversary.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much.

[moth2fic]

Do you have a graphics program? I could make spooky pics out of parts of those with no problem... Thanks for the virtual tour, and happy anniversary!

[smallhobbit]

No I don't. You're very welcome to use any of the pics if you want them. I'm glad you liked the tour, and thank you.

[moth2fic]

Will download, save, and play!!

[castiron]

Happy anniversarytide!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[scfrankles]

Congratulations to you both on your anniversary ^___^ 40 years together is quite an achievement ^___^

I have to say, even in broad daylight your photos look quite spooky ^^" And that lunch sounds delicious ^___^

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much.

I was pleased with the photos. And now Moth has really spookified the photos they're great. I'll be posting them later this month.

[rusty_armour]

Happy Anniversary! I saw Tintern Abbey very briefly during a bus tour I was on several years ago. Sadly, I didn't get to spend as much time at the abbey as you did, but it's great to see so much of it now through your photos. :-)

All of your pics are excellent, and I think that some of them do have a suitably spooky/gothic air about them.

I'm glad that you were able to find something nice to do for your anniversary. Your meal at the Anchor Inn sounds delightful as well. :-)

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much. Yes, we enjoyed our wander round the Abbey. I'm glad you like the photos.

Moth has now made some wonderfully spooky versions of my photos, which I shall be posting later this month.

[debriswoman]

Nicely atmospheric photos...a great day out:-)

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much.