Gede & Aberystwyth, ca. 1300AD

Two ruins, contemporaries from times long ago. The first- a mysterious, crumbling walled trading town 'lost' for 600 years and rediscovered on the east coast of Africa, the other a castle in disrepair for the last 600 years on the west coast of the British Isles. I wonder if, 700 years ago, when people still lived in both places, life would have been similarly comfortable for them.