A few miles further up the Wye from Chepstow and Tintern Abbey comes into view. I am always amazed at the way structures such as this are still standing some 500 years after the dissolution considering modern day buildings seem to have such a short life span. I suppose in those days most of the big projects would have been castles and town walls so builders of that age were used to erecting buildings that lasted. Wonderful really that these buildings that have survived centuries are also pleasing to the eye.