Portmeirion
Portmeirion is a bizarre Italianesque village on the Welsh coast, setting for the TV series The Prisoner. By day it is a tourist spot, teeming with visitors. By night, the village is a hotel, serving some of the best food and wine I have tasted. The visitors leave at 6pm and for the twilight hours, we have the many gardens, terraces and follies in which to enact our own Prisoner fantasies as a massive game of hide-and-seek.
The village also has several miles of adjoining woodland and beach, planted with an assortment of exotic species and dotted with more bizarre architecture. Places like this normally only appear in dreams.
We spent a week of our summer holidays in Wales. For the first two nights we enjoyed the luxury of Portmeirion.
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