Norton House Hotel & Restaurant Swansea

Back at the St. Brides Spa Hotel in Saundersfoot.<br>Unfortunately, winter doesn't make this the best place to stay. It's dark when you are at the hotel, so you don't get the views. And the spa doesn't stay open late enough in the winter. At least I will get to enjoy it over the weekend.<br>And the walk along the coast - kind of scary in the dark. But you do get to see a bunch of stars and parts of the Milky Way because there isn't much light pollution out here.<br>

... Lez for remembering the password from last year, how impressive is that, I'd forgotten even making the account, lol! Anyway, the user id is evansholiday, and the passwrord is evans1. Just don't forget to tell us who you are! <br><br>Right, back to synching my i pod.......<br><br>Next report from Vegas or Salt Lake City! <br>

... exactly helped; how inconvenient! Anyway, everything is now booked; flights, cat into cattery, rental car to airport, Gatwick hotel, car hire in the US, 4 US hotels, 2 US houses, 1 US condo, and rental car from airport. Now I have to think about packing.......<br>

... west wales was what I was expecting!<br>We left the hotel and spent the day tidying, cleaning, dropping furniture off and generally doing stuff we could have done without. Then there was the packing... I hate packing at the best of times, but to be packing for a trip that I have no idea where we are going while totally wiped out is my idea of hell on legs! Simon gave me a few pointers. A jumper and a bikini! Not ...

... t comfortable signing off on us riding on the beach. But we could go for a hack through the woods. Figured that was better than nothing.<br><br>Man it was a miserable day...raining and cold all day. Pretty much from when we entered Wales, it was raining on us...maybe Scotland will be better? The forecast calls for no rain, but it's still supposed to be cold, so wish us luck<br>

So on the last day we headed back to London. We drove past Port Talbot (but didn't stop) but was still interesting to me as you could see the outline of the steelworks and I sat there and guess what was what (yes I am a very sad person)<br> <br> We stopped at Caerphilly which has the 2nd largest castle in the UK (Winsor is the largest) - it even had a moat. This was pretty cool as it was actually a nice ...

So our first stop this morning was yet another castle ruins.This was set in the middle of nowhere with lots of sheep about but was quitenice and had good views of the surrounding countryside. The castle was verymuch like all the other castle i have seen before (the name for this one iscastle-y-bere). <br><br>We then went to the Eden valley to have a look at the dams which supply thewater to Birmingham. This was a pretty impressive dam and i wandered down tohave a bit of a look ...

... I was a bit nervous about that as it would cost £2500 to replace the bike. <br><br>We wandered around town, had a pint at the Castle Hotel, another at the White Horse then grabbed a table for dinner at the Angel, which proved to be a good choice. I had butternut squash soup and a blue rump steak while Sarah had huge, tasty prawns and a swordfish steak with excellent chips.<br>

... says study abroad changes you, but I didnt feel it as much last summer as I do here. I feel older now. I feel like graduating college isnt the scariest thing in the world. I can run my own life. I can cook my own meals. I can pay my housing bills. I can book flights. I can plan trips. I can manage my life. And, better still, I still have ...

We didn't have breakfast at Cafe Moca today. Paige, Dr. Schlueter, and I were going to go spend the day in Wales. We were planning on leaving around 7:15 am but we got a little bit of a late start. We decided that we would head out to Swansea first and then make our way over to Cardiff before heading back to London. We took the tube out to Paddington Station where we would catch a train out to Swansea. But, we had a while before the train would arrive ...