Tuesday 24.11.2009 Day 41 St David’s We went to St David’s the west most point in Wales. On the way we stopped in the town of Penbroke and explored there saw castle. We then saw the Carew castle and Tidal Mill which was closed due to strong winds. The Tidal mill is the only restored one in Wales and there are only 5 in Britain. The Castel displays the development from Norman fortification to Elizabethan country house. Archaeological excavations have uncovered evidence of a much earlier settlement possibly dating back some 2,000 years. Most of the fairies to Ireland were also not going due to the wind. We could not see Ireland (which I am told you can on a clear day) and the sea was very rough and windy. The town was very pretty as ... read more

Sunday 22.11.2009 Day 39 Laugharne Park The place we are staying at is a two bedroom lodge with kitchen and has fantastic views overlooking the estuary of the rivers corran and Taf in Carmarthen bay. We are up very high so have fantastic views there is a indoor pool, tennis court, Table tennis, Air Hockey, Gymnasium, sun bed, Crazy Golf and Laundry. Carmarthenshire is one of the oldest communal land council in the UK. Dylan Thomas house and boat shed is at the foot of the property and the Laugharne castle is walking distance away. In 1820 William Turner painted a view of the castle, Richard Hughes wrote some of his famous works here. Dylan Thomas wrote under milkwood here and it is about this area he spent the last years of his life living here. ... read more

Friday 20.11.2009 Day 37 We have a new car! We checked out of the hotel and had brunch then went to the car place to give our car another test drive. The car stalled again this time as we started to turn around to finish the test drive. We told the sales rep we did not want the car and wanted to test drive another car. He told s to talk to his manager who tried to talk us into having the car we said no way. The other car we wanted to test drive had no petrol in it so we said yes to it with just driving it 3 mts as we were running out of time. We told them if they did not have it by 5 that we wanted our deposit back. ... read more

Wednesday 18.11.2009 Day 35 Birmingham We woke up to see a boat going though the cannels and locks it was interesting to see then changing the water levels. We organized the 7 day free insurance on the car and got a quote for insurance that we will take up later. We had brunch at big Johns a UK take away chain that sells almost every take away food i.e. fish and chips chicken (roasted, fried or portages stile) Pizza, dona kebab, pies pasties, burgers and more. It was also drive though we need some of these in Aus. We then went to the dealer and took the car for a test drive. It stopped just before we got back to the dealer he said it ran out of petrol but the gage showed a ¼ full. ... read more

Monday 16.11.2009 Day 33 We checked out of our hotel and asked them to get us a taxi to the airport. A few times he said driver and I keep saying no Taxi. He then told us it would take 20 min he did not give us a booking number like we got when we had booked the taxi the day before and he wanted us to stay in the waiting room with him when our bags where in the foyer I did not trust him and decided to wait in the foyer. It was getting close to when the taxi should be there so we went outside to wait again the guy came to ask what we were doing and we explain it would be easier to see the taxi if we were outside. ... read more