C is for.... Caerleon

Have finished today feeling slightly more emotionally drained than I anticipated. With the help of Welsh Si and his wife I have been visiting old childhood haunts in the Newport area.

Started off in Gaer where I lived as a child. Parked near my old house then walked around the routes I knew so well. Then up to the ancient fort on the hill where my friends and I had many an escapade. It was quite surreal being back somewhere I last visited over 35 years ago.

When I was at school we visited the Roman amphitheatre at Caerleon at least twice. It seemed huge then. Seems to have shrunk in the intervening years but still very impressive.