He has spent time exploring and photographing the area's trails and hillsides dotted with slag heaps of slate spoils, its old quarry sites and abandoned machinery.

Princes and the high nobility took the opportunity to gorge themselves and their courtiers on heaps of food that often included exotic and rarely consumed delicacies.

Instead, social media hauls - where influencers display items they have bought - are the now go-to catalogue, with some parents saying it heaps added pressure on an already stressful time.

Amid the monstrous heaps of twisted metal, pools of congealed oil and walls pockmarked by shrapnel, one incongruous detail catches my eye.

Similarly, the heaps of praise now coming his way for revitalising the side following Andy Robertson's last-gasp winner in Warsaw is familiar too.