Lilleshall National Sports Centre
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Cardiff
... 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.
... It was a lovely couple of hours just eating and people watching. The desserts looked awesome but I just couldn't do it. There is such a thing as too much of a good thing.
As I left the rain was starting to fall yet again, as promised. A brisk stroll back to the hotel saw me drying off by 5 o'clock. I couldn't imagine going out for dinner so settled down to some TV, in-house movies and an early ...
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 ...
Match Day!
... scheduled for the afternoon, we could quite happily have spent the entire day there chatting with the locals, drinking beer and watching rugby .... If we didn't have tickets to one of those games!
The road back to Cardiff was less troubling as the sat nav expertly guided us back to the main road (a real main road with multiple lanes) to Cardiff. A quick change and off to the game, a 15 minute walk from the hotel, the rain coming ...
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 ...