A few photos from Portmerion in North Wales, well-known as “The Village” from the late-sixites cult TV series “The Prisoner”. It’s a photogenic place when the sun shines.
As an aside, why don’t they make television like The Prisoner any more? Worth noting that, like The Avengers and the work of Gerry Anderson, it didn’t come from the public service BBC, but Lew Grade’s ITV. Can you imagine ITV doing something like that nowadays?
No, actually I can’t imagine anyone making something as radical as “The Prisoner”.
I cannot help but think of the line in one of the guidebooks for Wales we borrowed from the library. The entry for Portmerion read something like “Do not be surprised by visitors who shout ‘I am not a number: I am a Free Man’ for no readily apparent reason. This is actually quite normal for Portmarion.”
When the woodland path I’d been following came to a dead end with spectacular views of Porthmadog (as you can see in one of the photos), I missed the opportunity to say “You can’t go any further, Rover will get you”.