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... way to the Millennium Stadium tour. The tour around Millennium Stadium began at 2pm and we were in a group of six people. On the tour we watched a movie of the history of the stadium and then entered "the dragon's lair". We got to go into the press conference room (the Ray Gravell room), changing rooms, corporate boxes, entrance tunnel and the pitch itself. At 3.15pm we caught the bus back to Swansea and had "cod and chips" for ...
Swansea
... the Swansea football coach Michael Laudrup (who is Danish). We had a look around all the stores, stalls and markets in Swansea, and we also managed to get a lovely fresh roast pork bun for lunch. After lunch Jono and I met up with one of Jono's schoolmates Helen and caught up on the news (11 years worth!) The weather was terrible with sleet and bitter winds and since Jonos shoes seemed to be holding more water than most water bottles ...
London (Heathrow) - Swansea
... that much for the tickets to begin with! To chew through time we went into the cafe in the lobby and had a coffee. We got chatting to a nice English lady who had the same idea of passing time while waiting as well. We had a lovely soup for lunch in the cafe before heading to the bus. Practically as soon as the bus started we had both fallen asleep and the next thing we knew we were in ...
Brecon Beacons Day Walk
Whenever I fix up a date for one of the Club's day walks, it rains. Usually this means cancelling the whole trip, or moving it to another day, but this time the weather and its forecasters were determined to give us a soaking. On Thursday, the forecast said rain all day Sunday so I thought I'd be able to call it off with a clear consience. But by Friday evening, the forecast was saying that the rain and high winds would be over by Sunday breakfast time and the rest of the day would turn ...
Not a good start...
... waves but it was by no stretch of the imagination anything special. Rather, it was smallish but clean and fun. A perfect reintroduction after a surfing hiatus. The one thing that there was a lot of, however, was people. It was packed. I've seen it busier but not by much. To make things even more exciting, there was a charity surf contest on, which served to increase the wave competition even further.
As we were suiting up, a couple of ...
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