Day 5 - Wales
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kmusserOur accomadations not nearly as nice as the B&B we had in Chester, but they will do. In the morning a harrowing drive into downtown Cardiff so N and K can stop at the train station to make arrangements for the rest of their trip. Then we head east and across the Severn river into England to meet up with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zammis's cousin, Peter.
Peter arranged to meet us at the White Hart tavern (we can hear your snickering all the way over here) which is a little country town, quite a bit off the beaten track. The pub is incredible - my envisioning of the ideal English pub would not have been as cool as this place was. Very Hobbit-like, many rooms of coziness. I could've happily spent a lot of time there. Anyway, the Francis reunion is successful.
Next stop is Tintern Abbey. I've seen many pictures of the place, but they don't really do it justice. The ruins are massive, can easily see how Wordsworth would've found them inspirational. I would've liked to be able to dropmossneko here with a case of black & white film.
Was particularly interesting after seeing the Chester cathedral earlier in the trip as Tintern was built around the same time and in the same general layout. It however was quite throughly pillaged by Henry.
After that the weather began turning nasty as was the traffic heading back to Cardiff, so we're calling it an early day. Which gives us a chance to rest up and for me to update here. Tomorrow is our last day with N and K.
zammis's cousin, Peter. Peter arranged to meet us at the White Hart tavern (we can hear your snickering all the way over here) which is a little country town, quite a bit off the beaten track. The pub is incredible - my envisioning of the ideal English pub would not have been as cool as this place was. Very Hobbit-like, many rooms of coziness. I could've happily spent a lot of time there. Anyway, the Francis reunion is successful.
Next stop is Tintern Abbey. I've seen many pictures of the place, but they don't really do it justice. The ruins are massive, can easily see how Wordsworth would've found them inspirational. I would've liked to be able to drop
mossneko here with a case of black & white film. Was particularly interesting after seeing the Chester cathedral earlier in the trip as Tintern was built around the same time and in the same general layout. It however was quite throughly pillaged by Henry.
After that the weather began turning nasty as was the traffic heading back to Cardiff, so we're calling it an early day. Which gives us a chance to rest up and for me to update here. Tomorrow is our last day with N and K.
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Date: 1 Oct 2004 11:24 (UTC)i'm so going there someday! :) did you take pictures of the sign?
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Date: 2 Oct 2004 07:08 (UTC)no subject
Date: 1 Oct 2004 11:32 (UTC)Gah. Stupid me, thinking I was an English major. :-)
Sorry for OT, but....
Date: 1 Oct 2004 12:16 (UTC)That is all...
Re: Sorry for OT, but....
Date: 2 Oct 2004 07:25 (UTC)