The painted streets of Aberaeron

Colourful shops in Aberaeron…

In my last post I shared my pictures of Llanerchaeron, high up on the River Aeron in Ceredigion, Mid-West Wales. This time it’s the pretty little town at the mouth of the same river – Aberaeron.

Like some other

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Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion – a fruitful estate…

Colourful nasturtiums in the garden at Llanerchaeron, Ceredigion, on a wet day in August 2012…

It’s November already and I still haven’t finished sharing my holiday snaps from August! On a wet day (and there were many) we visited the National Trust property at Llanerchaeron, in Ceredigion near the middle of Wales’s west coast.

The property at Llanerchaeron is a late 18th-century Welsh gentry estate – with a house, outbuildings, walled gardens and a small farm. The house is described as a villa, although that makes me think of a Roman country house, or a glamorous holiday home on the Mediterranean, or even a small town house in Edwardian times.

The villa, designed by John Nash, at Llanerchaeron

This one was

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The Vale of Rheidol by steam train

The Vale of Rheidol steam loco Prince of Wales resting after its long haul up from Aberystwyth to Devil’s Bridge

I have already written about Devil’s Bridge in Ceredigion, but this is the reason we went there, to catch the tourist train down to Aberystwyth.

The so-called

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Devil’s Bridge and the Punchbowl…

Three bridges built on top of each other at Devil’s Bridge, Ceredigion…

One of the highlights of my trip to Ceredigion a few weeks ago was an hour or two spent at Devil’s Bridge, high up the valley from Aberystwyth in the middle of Wales’s west coast.

We went there to take the Vale of Rheidol steam railway back down the valley – but

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The little white church at Mwnt, Ceredigion

Gravestones at the Church of the Holy Cross, Mwnt, Ceredigion

Although I haven’t yet finished showing you all my pictures from Dorset this summer, we also visited West Wales, so I thought I’d start sharing those memories, too.

First up is Mwnt, a little place on the coast of south Ceredigion, four miles or so from the county town of Cardigan and not far from the Pembrokeshire border.

It is most famous for

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