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TAKING A BREAK IN LLANBERIS - WALES, UK

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Llanberis is a small village in Gwynedd, in north Wales, nestling  several miles to the north of Mount Snowdonia, which is Wales, and the United Kingdom's highest mountain range, all 1085 metres of it.  Llanberis can be accessed along the A4086, and is really the departure point for many of the tourists who visit Mount Snowdonia, as the steam and deisel mountain trains which take them to and from the mountain's summit leave from there. For under £30, one is able to make the 2 1/2 - 1 hour getting to the top, spend 30 minutes admiring the view, and 1 hour getting back - hour return journey to the top of Mount Snodonia. As well as having this major attraction, Llanberis also has several notable attractions which help its visitors to have enjoyable and breath-taking short break holidays there. The attractions include the two local lakes, Llyn Padarn and Llyn Paris, which, as well as providing the visitor with a peaceful and scenic view completed with verdant flora carpet

SPANISH GRAND PRIX - HAMILTON'S RASHNESS DOES NOT EXCUSE ROSBERG'S RECKLESSNESS

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A nd so we have had it, that the Spanish Grand Prix, which offered so much hope for Hamilton to turn around his series of misfortunes and seize the opportunity to score his first win in the 2016 Formula 1 season, produced the most spectacular crash which wiped out the Mercedes' winning Silver Arrows. Y es, although Hamilton started on Pole, he was soon to be overtaken by his team mate and rival, Rosberg. Still into the very early stages of the first lap, Hamilton found his team mate apparently momentarily dozing, and made a bold sprint to try to overtake him on the right of the track. Yes, it would have been a spectacular pass, if it had been successful, but Hamilton had not taken into account that his team mate would have responded with the cold and brutal indifference to his safety and their team's chances of winning, by recklessly moving to the right and forcing him off the track. T he result, as everybody now know, is that Hamilton's ca

BRITAIN'S BREXITERS - HEEDING THE CALL OF THE WILDERNESS?

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T hose British people who want to leave the EU, naturally, will cite all the negatives associated with membership of the Union. Most prominent on their list of why we must leave, are issues such as the bureaucratic structure of the EU's - yes, let us say, Empire - government, the all pervasive nature of its tentacles - what we shall call the EU's empire-like list of laws, regulations, directives, and rules - and its usurpation of a significant part of its constituent members's national autonomy. Waste and inefficiency are also numbered amongst the things which the Brexiters loathe. M ost recently we had Boris Johnson telling of the President of the US, Barak Obama, effectively telling him to keep his opinion to himself and not to interfere in Britain's internal and international affairs, by advising the country to remain in the EU. This, of course, is a bit paradoxical, as one of the reasons why the Brexiters want out of the

BARAK OBAMA'S PRESIDENCY - NO GREAT SUCCESSES?

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D o you remember how much positive vibes and euphoria  were in the air during the now President Obama's first and second campaigns to become the President of the United States? How  much was made of his and his backers "Yes we can change", pronouncements? T he "Yes we can Change" refrain was one which found favour with millions of Americans, and was something which would have bought back some of the lost mojo of the disaffected American electorate. The millions of people who, in common with millions all over the globe, have come to distrust politicians and their promise of making their lives and the world a better place for them and their children. A nd so it was, that President Obama and his and the Democratic Party's Public Relations machinery, sought to convince the willing amongst the American public, that, yes, working as a united people, "We can Change" America and the world and make them be

EVENINGTIDE SPRING GARDEN

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This is a video of the 'Spring Garden' at eveningtide. Enjoy it; if it is something that appeals to you.

SELF OR EXTERNALLY INDUCED DECEPTION - TAKE CARE TO AVOID IT

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One of my operational motto is that a person should, as a matter of course, question everything or most things which they are told, and endeavour to to ascertain its authenticity, validity and reliability. This should be so in all things which you are going to make important and major decisions on. There is a saying, make the buyer beware, and another which says, 'my word is my bond', meaning that 'you can trust me, because I have a good and proven reputation.' What better rouse could a deceive has, than that people would be willing to ignore the proviso of 'let the buyer beware', and act impetuously and recklessly on the stock, but, for the prospective buyer, you, reassurance of the seller's contention that his/her 'word is his/her bond'? Clearly, such gullibility, existing on a mass scale, is what provides the source of the deceivers' wealth. It is also what I often refer to as  the parody of the 'dog with the bone crossing the bridge a