Thursday, March 29, 2007

England and Wales

26/3 Day 1 London to Bath
Monday was the first day of our Haggis "Full Monty" tour travelling round England, Wales and Scotland and we didn't waste any time getting the hell out of London...
Our stops today included the Uffington White Horse (big white horse picture on a hill side), Dragon Hill (where St George slew the dragon), Ashbury (for some old thatched roofed houses), timeless lacock, Avebury and its historic stone circles like Stonehenge and finally finishing in Bath. I'd already been to the baths from last visit so we went to the Botanic Gardens and took advantage of some cheap cocktails in our hostel...

27/3 Day 2 Bath to North Wales
Tuesday bought us another heavily misty day completely obscuring views but we powered on all the same. We crossed the Severn and Wye rivers into Monmouth getting a tacky photo over the river holding the Welsh flag with one foot in England and one foot in Wales... We also visited Chepstow Castle and Tintern Abbey, Hereford Cathedral (with Map of Mundi) and Ludlow Castle. We wrapped the day off with a walk over the Pontcysylite Aqueduct and our lodgings for the night were in a haunted farm house in the middle of nowhere...

28/3 North Wales to Windemere, Lakes District
Well - we made it through the night at a haunted house in one piece so got up nice and early to go check out Snowdonia. Once again we had heavy mist spoiling the views but could see enough to admire the natural beauty of the place. After this we drove on to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch which is a town in Wales whose names converts to "St Mary's church in the hollow of the white hazel near a rapid whirlpool, and the church of St Tysilio near the red cave"... Once we realised we had no hope of ever actually being able to say the name of this place, we continued on to Conwy castle and tonight we are staying in a pretty little town in the Lakes District called Mindemere.
We'll be off to Edinburgh tomoro and hopefully I can write more then coz there's only one pc here and there's a queue... again...

And i'll get in early (and on the right date this time - 29th) and say Happy Anniversary to my folks... Miss ya's... Love ya's...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Ta Missy, Lovya back! Missya back!
Off to wine & dine at Seagulls tonight. Keep enjoying..xx from the folks back home! .xx