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Dowsing at Camlan | 7 January + 15 February 2012

I don't have any other details yet, but I have this on good authority: 'Laurence Main will lead a walk of five miles, including dowsing at Camlan, on Saturday, 7 January, 2012. Start from the entrance gates to the Meirion Mill, Dinas Mawddwy, (SH 859 139) at 12 noon. A further walk will be held on Wednesday, 15 February, 2012, starting at 12:35pm (when the 36 bus arrives from Machynlleth).'

There's one for those of us wanting to follow in Bradley and Colin's footsteps!

Current Mood: quixotic

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(Apologies for the spam, but I will be starting a new work project on Wednesday, and if I don't get this written up now, the relevant brain cells may all dwindle away…)

Alas, I didn't get to visit the field of Camlan, but I did locate The Locked Gate. I also had afternoon tea at Meirion Mill, and discovered that the ginger and lemon slice is totally to-die-for. Then I visited the Church of St Tydecho at Mallwyd.

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Current Mood: loved

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The next stop on our Real Merlin and Arthur road trip is a mountain pass on minor roads between Llanuwchllyn (which I can now spell without having to double-check it every time) and Dinas Mawddwy. The road is a bit of a challenge, it's true, but if you have the use of a good driver like Bradley James, then it's well worth the effort. I have to say that the views down into the valleys, on both sides of the pass, are even more spectacular than the view from the lookout at the top. I had a bit of a 'Gosh!' moment myself on the way up, which may or may not have occurred in the same place as did the boys' own.

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Current Mood: blase (but not really)

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So here I am, following the boys on the road trip they took while filming The Real Merlin and Arthur. My next stop was the village of Llanuwchllyn, about an hour southwest of Mold.

The Bridge

The first thing they did there was lean very photogenically on a bridge, thereby spontaneously prompting the creation of a thousand icons. Bradley felt that it was a fine place in which Arthur might have spent his childhood, and having been there myself now I have to agree. The countryside all around here is beautiful, with just the right blend of homeliness and adventure.

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Current Mood: nostalgic

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Intent on belatedly following the boys on their road trip (stalking: ur doing it wrong) I headed for the Clwyd Theatr Cymru in Mold. This is where Colin and Bradley took Scott Lloyd for a cuppa after they found themselves locked out of the library.

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Current Mood: hot

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So, unlike poor nerdy Colin, I got to visit the Library! Hurrah!

I'm sure we all remember that Colin and Bradley tried to visit The Arthurian Collection in Mold as part of The Real Merlin and Arthur show for BBC Wales, but didn't arrive until after it closed. Well, I didn't do all that much better, as I didn't make an appointment ahead of time, but I ended up having a good browse for half an hour late in the afternoon.

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Current Mood: nerdy

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So, on my recent jaunt to Neath Abbey, I couldn't resist visiting Balinor's cave again. I suspect this is going to become one of my favourite locations... This time the trees were still bare, but there was no snow - the river was running higher, though, oddly enough! :-) I have posted some more photos of the cave and its surroundings to the Porth yr Ogof gallery on the Merlin Locations website, even more than that to the Merlin Locations Flickr group pool - and there's also one below the cut.

I also swung by Caerleon on the way home, to tread where the boys trod in the Roman amphitheatre. I really enjoyed this, I have to say. The site was far more impressive than I'd anticipated - and there is more to see there, though I had left it a bit too late for that. I have posted photos to a new Arthurian locations gallery on the website, and there is one below the cut, where you can see exactly where the boys walked! (Not that that's why we're so into filming locations, no... :-) Oh, and Bradley may have left his soccer ball behind...

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Current Mood: exhausted
Current Location: Take me to Dublin!

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So... this is what happens when I really should be concentrating on Real Life. I start creating mood themes quite gratuitously... It's called avoidance through immersing oneself in the pretties.

Actually, what I really wanted to do was create a mood theme using only my photos of the actual locations, plus the ones I've taken of the cast. And that's still my plan, ultimately, though it's a bit of a challenge. Because how do you represent 'anger' or 'groggy' using only that kind of source material? Though some are easy enough - 'weird' is a gargoyle at Pierrefonds, 'indescribable' is the castle rising from the fields, 'hungry' is the menu item 'Filet de Colin'. And so on. Anyway, I'll keep pondering all of that...

In the meantime, as a practice, I created a Road Trip mood theme using screen captures by

yorkshirewench (and a few from

gealach_ros) of the BBC Wales show The Real Merlin and Arthur. Thank you both!

Except I cheated a bit. It was easy enough finding 'happy' and even 'sad' - but 'angry'...? Just didn't happen. Though Colin did get mildly irritated in his Colin Morgan way with the map. And then I thought, well, is this the kind of community where people often get angry...? Perhaps not! (Or maybe I am just an incurable Pollyanna. Well, OK, yes. I am.) But I just used colours for the mood families of 'angry' and 'okay'. I'm not saying you can't feel them - in fact, going back through some of my entries, I see I have a nice red 'frustrated' in there - it's just that the boys didn't act those ones out for me on their road trip. Bless their good hearts.

Anyway, if you're interested, you can see all the moods here.

And today I feel 'accomplished'... Show us how it's done, Professor James!

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: too far from Dublin

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So… in October 2009, Bradley and Colin hopped into a Ford Focus, and spent three days driving around Wales visiting Arthurian locations. This resulted in a program called The Real Merlin and Arthur, first broadcast on 28 November 2009.

The show was made for BBC Wales, and so concentrated solely on Arthurian locations in Wales. Obviously there are also plenty of Arthurian locations to visit in England and elsewhere - but I don't see the paraochial focus as a bad thing, because I suspect a lot of people who are less geeky than us tend to think of the Arthurian legends as very English, and forget or aren't aware of the strong Welsh connections especially in the origins of the stories.

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Current Mood: geeky

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Entries tagged with spec: real merlin and arthur

Go dowsing at Camlan with Laurence Main!

Maes y Camlan

Bwlch y Groes | Pass of the Cross

Llanuwchllyn

Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold

The Arthurian Collection, Mold

photos from Caerleon, and more of Porth yr Ogof

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