Dolphin and chips

Had a holiday at last, just a week in Wales (all we could afford) with Sarah and Lucy and some friends; good stuff though - lots of great walking, some spectacular coastal paths along steep cliffs around Cardigan Bay and thereabouts, checking out the local wildlife, which includes dolphins and seals too!  Also visited Cors Caron nature reserve, an amazing landscape of raised peat bog that unfortunately is so rare now... and it was breathtakingly beautiful: deep pools flanked by reed beds, cotton grass and wild flowers.  We had to go back a few times because it was so very unique, walking through it was almost like stepping back through time; our landscape was once liberally peppered with such sites, remote and teeming with wildlife.  Sadly Britain's wetlands have all but disappeared, and recently we have government ministers openly discussing developing the greenbelt, the last peaceful refuge for town dwellers.  But once something like that is gone it's gone forever, and I can't help wondering why the countryside isn't given more protection, because without that bolt hole to escape to from the pressures of work and everyday life what do we have left?  A conflagration of towns, a massive road network and shopping malls that pretty much look the same wherever you happen to be.  Anyway, I managed to recharge my batteries and put a few bad memories behind me for a while, breathe in some good Welsh air and ate some fantastic fish and chips too while watching harbour porpoises dip and dive in Newquay harbour... I really like fish and chips.