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... luckily we were the only people on our tour! On the tour we learnt all about the history of the castle, what all the rooms were used for and the messages within the decorations. Many of the features of the rooms within the castle were purely for show - expressing the wealth and views of the third Marquess of Bute, John Patrick Chrichton-Stuart. Jonathans' favourite part was The Keep which is famously known for ...
The day after.
... blowing across he bay as I watch some dinghies sailing well out in the bay. Given it is ten degrees standing on the shore, I can only imagine the sea spray and the wind chill must make it freezing out there, I can only assume they are well cocooned in wetsuits.
I settle on a popular French restaurant and wander in. A table for one is no problem. There are a number of large family ...
Moving onto Wales
... feed to line our stomachs as we knew it was going to be a pretty big night because we were going to watch the All Blacks play Wales. After painting our faces and putting all our NZ memorabilia on we caught a taxi into the city to meet up with Monique and a few of her friends. Walking into a pub that was a sea full of red we clearly stood out. We enjoyed a few drinks and a few laughs before all heading to the stadium. We were in ore of the Welsh singing ...
Match Day!
... When presented with the dessert menu, once again temptation overcame common sense, toffee pudding for the doctor and a coffee cream cake thing for me.
From there it was back in the car, key in the next obscure address into the sat nav and off we go down those typical one lane goat tracks that you see on English TV shows. The irony of it was that this goat track was quite inappropriately named Main Road. The sat nav struggled to ...
Wales Weather for the Welsh ...
... three weeks ... Beijing, Moscow, even Ulan Baatar.There is something else about this town that seems oddly familiar. Something from long ago. It took me a while, about 15 minutes after seeing the old brick building with "Brains Brewery" written on it . The smell of hops and brewing beer. My intermediate school years at Papatoetoe Intermediate School, 1974 & 1975. Next door to Dominion Brewery, or DB. Smell is a ...