Travel!
Edward I's campaign to subjugate the Welsh with an Iron Ring of mighty castles (sarcastic exclamation point)!
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| Conwy Castle, Wales |
Which really boils down to lots of awkward selfies and pictures of indistinguishable rock walls.
I learned a lesson from my 2015 trip to castles in the south of England: I need to take more immediate notes while traveling. And so, at each Welsh site I allowed myself to look ridiculous, stopping often to type up notes (or dictate them to Dragon Dictation if no one was near me) and thus enduring the unwarranted scorn of fellow castle visitors whose looks as they passed me shouted, "You are in a historical site! Enjoy the moment! Turn off your phone and stop texting!"
Those uncomfortable moments were worth it. I returned with 12+ single-space pages of notes -- descriptions of what I was seeing and ideas for the new series I am writing.
