My last week...sort of.

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It's hard to stay up with thing, but i'll try. Well, these past couple of weeks me and charlie have had our hands full with not only our first batch of seminars, but branching out and exploring further parts of the local area. My first set of pictures are from a large hill south of town, Pen Dinas, where numerous artifacts are scattered. An Iron Age fort has remains on the coastal side, and there is a large tower monument for the Duke of Wellington on the very top that can be seen from any point in town. Unfortunately, I've made several trips up this hill, but i've only remembered to bring my camera when it was dusk, but it did make from some very cool pictures.

Next, me and Charlie exploiting that we have some Young Person's Railcards, got some day cruiser tickets for about 4 pound 80 (about 9 bucks) to go see Harlech and its amazing castle, and that it was! An amazing experience. Plus, we had hour layovers in Machynlleth (Ma-ken-cleth), a large town in Wales which actually used to be the old capital of Medieval Wales, so there were some cool sights to see there. Long story short, me and charlie both crashed for a nap the minute we got back. A long day, but a great one.

School's just going...it just fills the time between adventures, which is a nice way to look at it.

We don't know what me and charlie are going to do next, but we have some ideas, but we won't finalize them til next week. Maybe more castles, maybe more artifacts, maybe england for a while. Who knows.....I don't.

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Photos

Walking...
a stormy thursday walking through the castle on up to Pen Dinas

Main Tower
across the bridges enters the courtyard.

town view from front of the castle
why not...looks good.

through the courtyard to the south wall and main gate
this castle really has nothing compared to the one we went to.

me just camping out on the castle
yea so what? i was tired.

Yep.
it's alive and well in wales...

still walking...
in case you're wondering, i do a lot of that here.

lighthouse
look at that water action!

the monument
charlie making his way...

my turn...
i love that sweet vest...so comfy...

monument
yes, it was rather windy that day on top of that hill.

the sign
kind of get an idea of how big this thing is...

what?
i'm sorry, but i knew you wanted more.

train station
at machynlleth looking back on the footpath

old school british car
i want it.

heading in...
our first jaunt into machynlleth

clocktower
this thing is in danger of being unmainted because the town doesn't have enough money. depressing...but i can't do anything except take sweet pictures of it.

Comments

[Mom]

castle trip
Matt, the pictures are great and the comments are even better! Keep up the good work. Makes me feel like I'm sharing your fun. Some of the sites make me breathless.........wish I could be there, too! have fun, try to study inbetween the fun times.

[gallaugher]

still wearing your sweatshirt
Yes, the other gallaugher, how about the size of the doorways and the steps in those castles, were those guys small or what?? We found out that they had running hot and cold water in ancient piping systems so the gentry could clean up if the fires were up and running early enough.drew told us of your site, good to see it is such an adventure, see you back at CC in the fall for some games..... and food... GG