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King Arthur's Labyrinth - Underground visitor attraction based on the Arthurian tales and Arthur's connection with Wales. Opening times, prices, location information and attraction descriptions.

Centre For Alternative Technology - One of Europe's foremost eco-centres. Includes comprehensive green catalog, with an option to order books and products online.

Celtica - Virtual tour of a visitors centre presenting the history and culture of the Celts.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. - George Washington Carver Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth. -- Peter Ustinov Drink to me. -- Pablo Picasso, dying words Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Attractions The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) Attractions In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. -- H. L. Mencken "The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization." (Mikhail Gorbachev, June 8, 1990) Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. -- Bill Watterson, in his comic strip Calvin and Hobbes Attractions Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), The Devil's Disciple (1901) act 3 "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner Attractions In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. -- Albert Einstein There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Attractions A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. - Lao-Tzu A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. -- Arthur Schoperhauer "... and then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin) Attractions Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - Carl Gustav Jung Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. -- Roger Babson Only positive consequences encourage good future performances. -- Kenneth H. Blanchard There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Attractions Sex is God's joke on human beings. -- Bette Davis Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her. Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion. -- George Santayana Attractions Success is just a matter of attitude. -- Darcy E. Gibbons "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for i have seen yesterday and i love today!" (William Allen White) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw "I was born and raised with crocodiles; they are a piece of cake. But kids are so ... unpredictable." (Steve Irwin, "Crocodile Hunter") If your professor wrote it, it's as near to the truth as you ever need to get. -- John Watson, University of Canterbury Attractions Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. -- Mary Alice Messenger In the halls of justice, the only justice is in the halls. -- Lenny Bruce "There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience." (Archibald McLeish) Attractions The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. -- Oscar Wilde "If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) "Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I support efforts to limit the terms of members of Congress, especially members of the House and members of the Senate. -- Dan Quayle, Former Vice-President Just buy a box of popcorn and a Coca-Cola and sit back and watch. -- James Carville, Clinton advisor, offering advice for Democrats on the term-limits vote in the House Attractions Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God. -- Herbert Westren Turnbull Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football. -- Fran Lebowitz Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde Attractions Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice doggie" until you can find a rock. -- Wynn Catlin, also attributed to Will Rogers We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first. -- Anonymous You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. - Sacha Guitry Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Attractions Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. -- John Wesley blah "You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) A small family is soon provided for. -- English Proverb Attractions "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, It takes two to speak truth --One to speak, and another to hear. -- Henry David Thoreau Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous. -- Bill Moyers Attractions The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains.The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Arthur Ward Love thy neighbor, but make sure her husband is away first. My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA Attractions "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. -- Lucille Ball Count your age with friends but not with years. -- Anonymous I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it by not dying! -- Woody Allen "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Attractions "Use what talents you possess; The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best." (William Blake) "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - A. J. Liebling Attractions Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. -- Claudette Colbert Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled? -- Pope Julius III No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. -- Anon. If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. "Freedom of press is limited to those who own one." (Henry Louis Mencken) Attractions If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- Anon. Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Attractions It is a product of Einstein's genius -- taking a commonplace observation, combining it with some simple imaginary experiments, and arriving at a revolutionary conclusion. -- Clifford M. Wills, 1986 If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question? -- Lily Tomlin "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim You will marry into an Indian tribe and become one big Hopi family. Attractions "Dream as if you'll live forever; live as if you'll die tomorrow." (James Dean) Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. -- Joseph Addison A White House well filled, a little peanut field well tilled, and a wife who will go to the Bronx are great riches. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac Attractions
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