{"id":6544,"date":"2019-06-14T08:47:13","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T12:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=6544"},"modified":"2023-12-17T15:48:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T20:48:31","slug":"be-seeing-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/be-seeing-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Seeing You"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Anybody a fan of The Prisoner? As part of our recent vacation, we visited The Village, home to the cold war’s retired spies. In reality The Village is a gorgeous little seaside resort in Wales called Portmeirion. Everywhere you turn there’s a fantastic view or a quirky little surprise.<\/p>\n

Just, be on your toes.<\/p>\n

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The town square, with its fountain and its colonnades. And its palm trees.<\/p>\n

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That’s right, the infamous Welsh palm trees everyone raves about.<\/p>\n

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In the lower right you can catch a glimpse of the Stone Boat.<\/p>\n

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Here is No 6’s cottage (the cute round one). The interior is now the Prisoner Shop, not 6’s funky bachelor pad.<\/p>\n

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You’ll just have to imagine the marching band.<\/p>\n

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The Bandit Lord is a Welsh Corgi, so we were on the lookout for his ancestors. We did not see a single dog in all of Wales!<\/p>\n

Now that we’re home and over our jet lag, and Jen is just about recovered from the evil lung-rot that the terrible woman on the plane infected her with, we’ve started cranking out the prose again. As you can see, we have plenty to fuel our imaginations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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