Day 3 - Wales
1 October 2004 17:26![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kmusserBeen awhile since I've had a chance to update, will try to do some catching up.
From my previous entry - forget to mention the cathedral - Chester's cathedral is awesome, it and it's attached monestary managed to avoid Henry VIII's pillaging. Particularly impressive was a series of giant mosaics of various biblical scenes. Shared the catherdral with a whole bunch of English school children there learning about monastic life.
Anyway, on to Wednesday. Headed out to Caernarfon to see the castle and it is damned impressive fortress. Built in the 1200's it is now ruins, but the walls and towers are mostly intact and it was obviously built expecting to be attacked. Views from the walls also beautiful.
Afterwards intended to take one of the little steam railways up to the top of Mt. Snowdon, but the railway was closed, presumably because of the somewhat sketchy weather. Instead did some driving about Snowdonia and had plenty of slendid mountain views from the road. Lots and lots of sheep.
Continued our country drive crossing over the straight to Angelsea, probably the most Welsh part of Wales. More beautiful, if somewhat desolate scenery. Angelsea was home to K's ancesters so we drove about the area of her roots. Saw a pheasant :-) Also stopped to see a neolithic burial chamber which has been opened up and saw the ancient stone carvings inside.
Then back to Chester and to a pub for dinner.
From my previous entry - forget to mention the cathedral - Chester's cathedral is awesome, it and it's attached monestary managed to avoid Henry VIII's pillaging. Particularly impressive was a series of giant mosaics of various biblical scenes. Shared the catherdral with a whole bunch of English school children there learning about monastic life.
Anyway, on to Wednesday. Headed out to Caernarfon to see the castle and it is damned impressive fortress. Built in the 1200's it is now ruins, but the walls and towers are mostly intact and it was obviously built expecting to be attacked. Views from the walls also beautiful.
Afterwards intended to take one of the little steam railways up to the top of Mt. Snowdon, but the railway was closed, presumably because of the somewhat sketchy weather. Instead did some driving about Snowdonia and had plenty of slendid mountain views from the road. Lots and lots of sheep.
Continued our country drive crossing over the straight to Angelsea, probably the most Welsh part of Wales. More beautiful, if somewhat desolate scenery. Angelsea was home to K's ancesters so we drove about the area of her roots. Saw a pheasant :-) Also stopped to see a neolithic burial chamber which has been opened up and saw the ancient stone carvings inside.
Then back to Chester and to a pub for dinner.