V-log 13: County Cricket 2015 - Worcestershire versus Nottinghamshire

Greetings!

This week's V-log is another journey into the world of cricket, this time a quiet and relaxed county game at one of the most beautiful grounds in England. With the cathedral bells ringing, a cup of tea in my hand and the crack of willow on leather, what could be better on a lazy Sunday afternoon...?

Keep travelling!

Uncle Travelling Matt

Check out all my V-logs!

V-log 1: So Uncle Travelling Matt, how many countries have you visited…?

V-log 2: Llangelynin

V-log 3: A Tour Around Schouwen-Duiveland

V-log 4: Draycott-en-le-Moors

V-log 5: Barmouth Cliff Walk

V-log 6: Walking Pilgrimage to Bardsey Island

V-log 7: Crowland, Lincolnshire

V-log 8: Repton, Derbyshire

V-log 9: East to West Berlin

V-log 10: Berlin

V-log 11: Poznan

V-log 12: The Ashes 2015

Oslo V-log: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

V-log 12: The Ashes 2015

Greetings!

This week's V-log covers a passion of mine that is little discussed on UTM: test cricket. I've been following test cricket for years and can think of no game so completely absorbing from the beginning to the end. The uninitiated may scoff but it is because they don't understand. I'm not knocking football, rugby or other sports; I follow them too, but there is something about test cricket that cannot be equalled.

And the pinnacle of test cricket has to be the fiercely contested Ashes series between England and Australia. Today's v-log is of the first test in this year's series which I was honoured to watch at Cardiff's SWALEC Stadium.

Oh yes, and for those who don't follow the game, we won.

Keep travelling!

Uncle Travelling Matt

Check out all my V-logs!

V-log 1: So Uncle Travelling Matt, how many countries have you visited…?

V-log 2: Llangelynin

V-log 3: A Tour Around Schouwen-Duiveland

V-log 4: Draycott-en-le-Moors

V-log 5: Barmouth Cliff Walk

V-log 6: Walking Pilgrimage to Bardsey Island

V-log 7: Crowland, Lincolnshire

V-log 8: Repton, Derbyshire

V-log 9: East to West Berlin

V-log 10: Berlin

V-log 11: Poznan

V-log 12: The Ashes 2015

Oslo V-log: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Oslo V-log: Day 1

Greetings!

It's been a while since we've had one so here's a V-log! Over the next three weeks I'll be posting my videos of my recent Oslo trip. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed eating moose burgers, ogling Munch and paying over two quid for a bottle of water.

Keep travelling!

Uncle Travelling Matt

Oslo V-log: Day 1

Oslo V-log: Day 2

Oslo V-log: Day 3

My Flickr album of this trip

Check out all my V-logs!

V-log 1: So Uncle Travelling Matt, how many countries have you visited…?

V-log 2: Llangelynin

V-log 3: A Tour Around Schouwen-Duiveland

V-log 4: Draycott-en-le-Moors

V-log 5: Barmouth Cliff Walk

V-log 6: Walking Pilgrimage to Bardsey Island

V-log 7: Crowland, Lincolnshire

V-log 8: Repton, Derbyshire

V-log 9: East to West Berlin

V-log 10: Berlin

V-log 11: Poznan, Poland

Greetings!

It's been a whilst since we had a v-log so here's a short video of my time spent in the beautiful Polish city of Poznan. And remember, if you want to learn more about how I found the place, just read the travelogue here!

Keep travelling!

Uncle Travelling Matt

Check out all my V-logs!

V-log 1: So Uncle Travelling Matt, how many countries have you visited…?

V-log 2: Llangelynin

V-log 3: A Tour Around Schouwen-Duiveland

V-log 4: Draycott-en-le-Moors

V-log 5: Barmouth Cliff Walk

V-log 6: Walking Pilgrimage to Bardsey Island

V-log 7: Crowland, Lincolnshire

V-log 8: Repton, Derbyshire

V-log 9: East to West Berlin

V-log 10: Berlin

V-log 11: Poznan

V-log 12: The Ashes 2015

Oslo V-log: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

V-log 6: Walking Pilgrimage to Bardsey Island

Greetings!

My computer's in for repairs this week, so no updates on Across Asia With A Lowlander. Instead, here's my latest V-log, an account of the trip I took this week to Wales where Paul and I walked almost 30 miles, (ok, by some people's standards, nothing spectacular, but for a rotund guy like me, incredible), from Clynnog Fawr to Bardsey Island (Ynys Elli) just off the Llyn Peninsular. Absolutely incredible journey, and I suspect it won't be the last walking trip I undertake even if my legs and feet are pleading otherwise.

Keep travelling!

Uncle Travelling Matt

Check out all my V-logs!

V-log 1: So Uncle Travelling Matt, how many countries have you visited…?

V-log 2: Llangelynin

V-log 3: A Tour Around Schouwen-Duiveland

V-log 4: Draycott-en-le-Moors

V-log 5: Barmouth Cliff Walk

V-log 6: Walking Pilgrimage to Bardsey Island

V-log 7: Crowland, Lincolnshire

V-log 8: Repton, Derbyshire

V-log 9: East to West Berlin

V-log 10: Berlin

V-log 11: Poznan

V-log 12: The Ashes 2015

Oslo V-log: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

V-log 2: Llangelynin

Greetings!

I took my son on his first-ever camping trip this weekend and whilst romping around the wilds of Snowdonia, we visited Llangelynin, a remote 12th century church found by one St. Celynin, with a holy well in the churchyard.Such wells are a potent feature of the spiritual life of Wales - and many other places - and I always enjoy seeking them out. What I love most is the way in which religion and spirituality have interacted with the local culture to create a spot which is truly incredible. The pre-Christians Pagans in Britain used to say that there were 'thin places' where the fog between our world and the next almost clears, places on the edge of our reality, a halfway house between this realm and the other. Llangelynin, situated at the end of a tiny dead-end lane, the coastal plain and rolling hills below it and the rugged rocky peaks of the Cambrian Mountains above is one such place and being there caused me to make this short video musing on the interaction of religion and culture which so many people deem to be a bad thing, and the joy of seeking out such ancient holy places where prayer impregnates the very stones.

All of which is well and good. However, is it quite so wise to bring a five-year old assistant with you...?

Keep travelling!

Uncle Travelling Matt

Check out all my V-logs!

V-log 1: So Uncle Travelling Matt, how many countries have you visited…?

V-log 2: Llangelynin

V-log 3: A Tour Around Schouwen-Duiveland

V-log 4: Draycott-en-le-Moors

V-log 5: Barmouth Cliff Walk

V-log 6: Walking Pilgrimage to Bardsey Island

V-log 7: Crowland, Lincolnshire

V-log 8: Repton, Derbyshire

V-log 9: East to West Berlin

V-log 10: Berlin

V-log 11: Poznan

V-log 12: The Ashes 2015

Oslo V-log: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3