Wicked in Wales - Part II

Trip Start Mar 05, 2008
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Trip End Jan 11, 2009


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Friday, November 21, 2008

After leaving Kidwelly we were hoping to get to the Bishop's Palace & Cathedral at St David's (not as in Blue Heelers!), all the way on the West Coast. Unfortunately, it was getting late when we arrived, so we headed for the campground instead. Yep, we found another one!

Got up the next morning & it was only a short drive to St David's Cathedral & the Bishop's Palace. The Palace was an enormous set of ruins (built, obviously, to house the bishop of St David's, whilst the cathedral is still up & running - complete with a floor that slants 1m and pillars that are crooked (thanks to an earthquake in the 13th century!)

From there we made a quick stop at Fishguard and saw the remains of an old fort high up on a coastal ridge - which they only built AFTER the town had been taken and held for ransom by pirates!)

We continued to move up the west coast and went to a place called Devil's Bridge. Never ones to waste time pulling things down, here the Welsh have built three bridges - each one over the top of the other! The earliest dates from 1100 and the most recent, just 1901).

We stopped for the night at another brochure campsite, this time in Barmouth. Once again we missed the reception guy, but we did meet a really helpful local who directed us (most confusedly!) to the 'best fish & chips in town'!

The town was actually really quite pretty, so we went for a bit of a drive around it the next morning. We could see that it would have been a really popular place to visit during the summer.
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