i'm still on the road from holic to conway both now complete and from konar been to the isle of angles edward has decided to build a further refuge here. at the foot of the green hills on the street between and we'll see in the mainland another council is taking shape on the marshes the americans that's french or how we say it anyway it means beautiful mom. after riding around for twenty years i find this a peaceful place compact strictly geometrical no lofty towers low to match the flat. area it's the largest of the birds cost which you wouldn't think so it's rounded endless rules into don't. it's a pleasure and the country. can retire here with this family regine you. look back on the successful calm. you marantz will go down in the history of as one of the most perfect buildings of the late middle ages. gas. mob the welsh councils of my lord the king have kept me running around for most of my life that stories are as different as the architecture of master james of scent george pulled up for each of . the they have one thing in common a perfect. symbiosis with the natural landscape.

konar province north eastern afghanistan. and isolated dangerous part of the world. for many years the territory of al qaeda and the taliban these mountains now hide in insurgent groups figured by every one. afghan journalist that she will look or a she and his team have often reported from behind hostile frontlines but this time the risks are greater than ever before. the islamic state of iraq and the levant or i sill has set up a base here and somewhere at the end of this for all their fighters are watching and waiting. as always frightening to work on these sort of stories in afghanistan. but going to mean i so it's different it's failed much worse than normal. i still have spread fear across the middle east. but building a stronghold in afghanistan's impenetrable mountains would provide a springboard for the entire region. you start thinking you might not make it home again they might change their minds and the hay. you. such things have happened before. but it's our job to tell these stories we after do this. it's taken weeks of negotiations by go betweens and t