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Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Conwy » Abergele February 10th 2013

Suzy is standing on our drive . Suzy is going stir crazy . Sion, Drag and Ba Ba are going stir crazy. Or perhaps it's me who is going stir crazy. The desire to travel is strong and we want to get on the road again. Time is moving slowly. Just as it did when I was a child. Waiting waiting for Christmas morning. It seemed to take forever to get to Christmas morning to be able to open presents . Every weekend we seem as if we are floundering. We are in the doldrums thwarted by the weather. It is either too wet or going to be too wet , it's too cold or the weatherman has given cold winds tomorrow. It turns out too windy or there is too much snow to go anywhere. ... read more
Abergele
Abergele
Abergele

Europe » United Kingdom » Wales » Conwy » Abergele June 28th 2009

That castle I saw couple of times before I visited there. It looks quite interesting and nice impression enhances by location of Gwrych castle at the top of hill. Castle's walls are white and in general it is stylized to medieval fortress despite of it was build at the beginning of 19th century. The family of founders stopped to reign of castle when the last family member died childless. Afterwards fate of Gwrych castle was various and some owners possessed it. Nowadays I don't know exactly who is an owner but I heard about company that bought the castle and would try to turn into hotel. First impresion is - this is nice medieval castle but after I thought for a few seconds... Welsh have respect for cultural and historical relics and they surely would take ... read more
Gwrych Castle
Gwrych Castle
Gwrych Castle




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