Castells, Castles, and Brains?!?

Late on Sunday afternoon we took off from Bristol and headed through Cardiff on our way into Wales. We stopped in Cardiff only for an hour and walked around - it's an absolutely lovely city (the capital of Wales)- with a lot of recent redevelopment - including a brand new stadium. We were too late to walk through Cardiff Castle (Welsh people are up to their necks in Castells - Castle in Welsh) but we did walk alongside it (below).










After leaving Cardiff we drove through Southern Wales and eventually (thank goodness for roundabouts and Taylore's superior navigation skills) found the place we had booked in Llanelli along the coast. The guy who ran the place wasn't in, and as it turned out we booked the wrong night, so I called him and we checked in over the phone.

The next morning we drove through the edge of Pembrokeshire, stopping in the towns of Fishguard and Cardigan. Fishguard was a great little town that was the site of a foiled invasion attempt by the French about two hundred years ago. The locals recently commemorated the event with the commissioning of a tapestry which is on display in the town hall. We stopped by and walked the length of the tapestry before going for a walk along the harbour.





On our walk down to this lovely little harbour I slipped down the jetty and fell on my bum - furthering my streak of falling on my ass in virtually every country I've been too.

We stopped in Cardigan for lunch in a lovely art gallery and cafe before heading to Caernarfon to visit the Castle of the Prince of Wales.





This Castle was built by Edward I and has since been the seat of the Prince of Wales (and more recently site of the Prince of Wales' investiture). The castle was amazing and we climbed up through turrets and walked along the castle walls.

We also picked up some Brains, the Welsh National beer so it would seem. We are pretty sure that Wales will be ground zero of the impending zombie apocalypse...





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