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Travel Blogs from Llandissilio
"Rain is an attitude of mind."
... but which we knew was heralding the onset of wet. It did.
Heading westwards through central Wales we drove down the valleys, with the certain knowledge that there were large mountains on both sides of us, even if we couldn't see them. The clouds sank lower and lower to meet us, so that by the time we drove through Y Fenni (or Abergavenny to normal folk) it was almost like driving though a thin layer of candyfloss.
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Last dolphins of the year
We've been thinking about taking a trip to the coast to look for dolphins for ages but the conditions have never been great for one reason or another but after a week of glorious weather, minimal winds per the forecast and probable deterioration tomorrow, this looked like the day. We even allowed ourselves a bit of sleep and didn't set off to New ...
Check that address
... Wembley was being redeveloped. The other thing is that there are flags all around the top of the walls of Cardiff Castle. Currently they alternate Welsh and Australian flags. No idea why.
A very short drive to Caerphilly to see the castell (I am such a Welsh speaker) and to get our castell passes. Even though we've seen many similar towns, I will never stop being amazed how cities and towns have castles and/or other ruins in their midst. ...
Rain, thunder and lightning in Rhossili-Tim
Spent an enjoyable if very wet week on the Gower Peninsula. Very glad we were in the van as it rained at least part of every day! Scenery and beaches are superb here and great for boogie boarding with long shallow beaches. Malcolm, Jo and the boys had a harder time of things in the tent. We had a couple of trips into Swansea for the cinema and water park and the local Worms Head Ale was a very good ...
The walk ( Oliver)
Do we have to? We whined “You have to” said mum. We were going on a long boring walk and mum was forcing us to do it. And then guess what she made us wear our walking boots. So of we went trudging along waiting for are lives to be better but they don't,it started raining even better and we still had half a mile to ...