#Caerleon Wandered round home village for a day.

Most amazing fact, Roman legion had mandatory pension and also catered for AVCs!!

When did pensions become universal in UK? 🤦‍♂️

Caerleon, Newport and Cardiff were not hotbeds of Welsh speakers, so little practice for Cymraeg. 😢

The biggest disappointment, was seeing the vandalism of the old college.

South Wales university killed local colleges! 🤬

Caerleon Roman Fortress and Baths Museum

More about it and my adventures as an Italian learning Welsh visiting Wales, here (also link to fersiwn Cymraeg):

https://welshclass.wales/travelog23-gis-2-eng

#RomanSiteSaturday #caerleon #caerllion #museum #cymru #wales #dysgucymraeg #cadw

#caerleon #wales festival - at the Hanbury. Local band The Rogues were excellent - wouldn’t be supporting to see them go on to big things. #music

@jeffjarvis

So true, which is why I make a point of going to a local coffee shop to engaging in real conversations with strangers and often with friends.
This morning a young lad, probably early 30s with camping equipment strapped to his back stopped off for breakfast in #Penclawdd while on his Wales Coastal Walk, #Chester to #Caerleon. Over 700 miles done and about 170 miles left. He tells me he needed to ditch tech and his unfaithful girlfriend, so decided to embark on a #BucketList task.

Would you sit on this chair? #caerleon #wales

#Caerleon #Wales lunch time stroll.

A few from my adventures in Wales over the weekend

#wales #welsh #history #histodon #romans #archaeology #cymru #Caerleon #museum #WelshHistory #Cwmbran #boatinglake

Today's #Caerleon wooden sculpture.

#wales #PublicArt

More #Caerleon wooden sculptures - Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot

#Wales #PublicArt

A walk around #Caerleon in #Wales this morning.

We've got a lot of #sculptures around #Caerleon - created at the local art festival over the years. This chap is my favourite.

#SouthWales

We've got a lot of #sculptures around #Caerleon - created at the local art festival over the years. This chap is my favourite.

#SouthWales

Hello! I’ve just moved over to Toot.Wales from a general server, so I’ll say hi again.

I live in #Caerleon. I mostly post about #music stuff, along with cat pictures and I’ll add in more local photos too now.

Favourite music venue is #ClwbIforBach and favourite event is #GreenManFestival - gone to that almost from the start.

I play guitar - I’m in #goth band #AllLivingFear and make electronic #shoegaze type music mostly for myself these days. My profile photo is in Mccann’s in #Newport.

@DaveTeague I just missed all the improvements, left in 85. How to encourage nippers! Red gra, all weather not too bad. Mr Edwards was there, must have followed him from the comp. Sex in the village filmed there? 😂 Teague a famous Caerleon name! Pa Leafe did manage to block the road into #Caerleon with his bond bug once! 🤦‍♂️

No wheelchair access in my day, many a curry sauce dropped "negotiating" the steps! 😂 #GCHE

Drive way leading to main campus building at old #Caerleon campus.

alright butt(s)!

Trying to recall if used in #Caerleon ; in mitigation 40 years ago! 😂

Sticking to local view, a breath of fresh air; particularly the hill/mountain images.

Newport hockey is no more, hence was hoping to find images and memories of Caerleon.

Missing a trick?

Have a great day. 😁

#introductions

Hi, Ian here, of the Leafe variety. 😀

Lived in #Caerleon from the age of 4; 67, until leaving the teacher training college for QEBS in Barnet to teach Physics and Science; 85.

Tories catalyst for leaving after 3 years and going into IT; 6 years at ESAB WX.

Spent several decades contracting, retiring in 2019.

Trying to come to terms with #Retirement, pastimes too few #audiobooks; #scifi, #history, #mystery and Web.

Will try to learn Welsh, rather slowly methinks! 👴

#Welsh #Caerleon no Welsh when brought up in Caerleon; circa 63-85, any recommendations for free 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐡 𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐬? Shout out to anyone from endowed enfants, comprehensive or teacher training college! 😂

#Caerleon

RT @basquechildrenE: 85 aniversario de la llegada y acogida de las niñas y niños #refugiados vascos en #Caerleon #Gales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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