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Exactly, I think it's an island full of contradictions.
I hadn't heard of Tarkovsky, I'll have to look him up.
There were people firing BB guns at us?!
I said I'd post a picture of that 40% hill in Harlech. You can't really tell it's 40%, but still...
It's the steepest hill in the UK, apparently. We didn't ride up or down it but having read about it since I wish we had. Apparently once you're past the 40% bit at the bottom it's fine :)
I also wanted to post this. I don't normally post stuff from Hansard(!), but this is a good piece of Parliamentary storytelling and shows how meeting a sticky end on Maplin Sands isn't just something that happened in the 19th Century...
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1970/feb/13/maplin-sands-deaths