In Pursuit of Spring - Day Eight
A journey (now complete) on my camper-van-camino from the Scottish Highlands to Cornwall. Each day, on this journey, I wrote a short post and produced a watercolour drawn from the day’s experiences.
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📝 Field Notes from my Camper-van-camino: Bala, Manordeifi, Castlemartin, Gumfreston
Here is the full three days of a remarkable journey into the heart of Pembrokeshire. Lots of amazing hidden gems and alternative locations to visit.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 18 July 2025
Looking after the building and its context speaks to something profoundly human – the impulse to invest ourselves in things that extend beyond our own lifespans.
Andy Marshall's Genius Loci Digest: 4 April 2025
And then, without warning - a chiaroscuro. The landscape delivers its crescendo: the spire of the Marble Church piercing the firmament from a brace of gargoyles, that project above a dip in the distant Clwydian hills.
📍Loci: Genius Loci Digest Special Edition: The Ultimate Guide To Time Travel - 10 UK Places That Slow Down Time.
✨ Many will feel the pull to hurry past these words, gripped by the restless urge to scroll onwards. But should you find the courage to linger, to resist the tide of haste, you will be performing a quiet kind of magic.
🎨 Atelier: The Face from The Prior's Door, Ely. Signed, Limited Edition Print of 25no.
A chance to own a limited edition print of the iconic church of the shrine at St. Mellangell, Wales.
📍Loci: St. Cwyfan - the salty smack of the sea.
This is a place of transition – between land and water, between heaven and earth, between time and tide. On a quiet, sunlit morning, it feels like a place on the edge of something, caught between the elements.
📍Loci: Hiraeth
The landscape provides a correspondence with the transition of time—the valley bottoms out into flattened serenity, as the Berwyn hills rise like embattlements pitched against any sense of doubt as to the magic at play.
🎨 Atelier: St. Melangell, Pennant Melangell, Wales. Signed, Limited Edition Print of 25no.
A chance to own a limited edition print of the iconic church of the shrine at St. Mellangell, Wales.