Today's stops on the Geek's Tour of Britain.

Yesterday was a dead loss when it came to geekdom. We stayed in a worse-than-mediocre hotel and left it this morning as soon as we could manage.

Today, though! Ah, today was great in the annals of Dunleavy-Goodin family geekdom!

We started out with a trip to Stonehenge:



Margaret took this fantastic shot:



While we were walking around, we noticed a film crew working. The talent (the guy who was talking to camera) looked familiar. Increasingly familiar. We all recognized him at roughly the same moment: Tony Robinson, who has achieved no small amount of fame for his work in the Blackadder series, Time Team, and The Worst Jobs in History. Yes. That Tony Robinson. Here's as close as I got:



But I really, really had to pee, and so I missed this:



So that was pretty geeky all right, but I must enjoy it vicariously, alas.

Next leg was a drive up to North Wales. On the way, though, we stopped at Wells, which is the town in which Hot Fuzz was filmed (I'd give you the movie site rather than the Wikipedia site, but when it loads there are a lot of loud gunshot sounds and who needs a surprise like that?):


(Picture Simon Pegg riding along this street on a big, white horse.)

But that's not all Wells has to offer. There is the Bishop's Palace, which is guarded by a gatehouse and wall and surrounded by a real, live moat.



There's also the shockingly old and extremely fascinating Cathedral, which they were charging £3 for a photo license to photograph so you'll just have to go to the Wiki page to see it. It's got a 600-year-old mechanical clock with jousting knights going round and round at each quarter-hour, knocking each other over. Yes! But one of the most interesting (and rather sad) things of all was the Penniless Porch, built around 1450 and used right up to today as a place for beggars to shelter and ask for alms. How do I know? There was a beggar there today. Sitting in Penniless Porch. Asking for alms. Some say humanity has progressed over the centuries. I'm never quite as certain as all that, myself.

The rest of the day was spent on the drive up to Betws-y-Coed in North Wales, our base for the next two nights. Tomorrow we're planning to go to Portmeirion, where the iconic cult television series The Prisoner was filmed. This is just the apotheosis of geekdom, that's all. I can't wait!