The Bloggler

In the late 1960s, a man tried many times to escape from here - running for his life, often pursued by a huge hovering balloon across a sandy estuary. My wife and I chose to escape from our garden and four walls and the daily drudgery of Covid nonsense by coming to this wonderful place to enjoy probably the last of the summer sunshine. Of course, the prisoner was the character ‘No 6’ in 1960s TV series ‘The Prisoner’ played by Patrick McGoohan and the place is Portmeirion in North Wales. If you are not familiar with this wonderful TV series, it features a top government agent who angrily resigns his position and drives his sports car home.   He is gassed, awakes the next morning and opens the curtains to find himself in a mysterious isolated community known only as ‘The Village’.   It is a picturesque Italianate wonderland where the residents have numbers instead of names.   Number 2 is in charge, though he answers to an unseen superior. Our Prisoner is told: “You are Number 6.”