Brodawel Camping Park
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Cardiff
... 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
First thing we went to Liberty Stadium to pick up the tickets for the Swansea games against Norwich and Middlesborough. Phil (the man who Jono managed to organise tickets through) took us behind the scenes and into Liberty Stadium itself! We were both chuffed and had our photo taken. After getting the tickets we went into the Merchandise shop and while Jono was browsing he was asked by some Danish jornalists if he could do an ...
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 ...
The day after.
It's winding down. Almost three weeks after I embarked on my adventure I have a quiet day in Cardiff before making my way to London Paddington and then Heathrow tomorrow. I said goodbye to Hoggy mid morning as he headed home to Leeds.
The wild weather with torrential rain continues to threaten my plans to get to Heathrow with major flooding affecting all modes of land based transport. So far the ...
Moving onto Wales
... door I called it quits, Chris agreed. Our faces by now looked really bad as our paint looked like it was melting. We had been drinking since lunch time anyway so it was a pretty big night. Today, Chris is in recover mode. I on the other hand was fine again. But after a feed and a bit of rest we went into town by 1pm. It was still raining and miserable but we couldn't not come in and see the town. We gave up after a few hours and were drenched so back to the hotel we ...