Blogs from Llandudno, Conwy, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe - page 3

Wales, Conwy & Caernferon, ie. excuse to add pictures The glorious Conwy Castle and exploration of the town. Doves & pigeons (are doves just white pigeons?). In this castle King Louis had himself a private privy built, eh. We looked down it. You really can’t understand Welsh at all. It is a lovely sounding language though. Hand gestures gets ye by. ... read more

In Llandudno anyone shouldn't get into trouble with park car for free. We didn't pay because we parked just into the town centre. Llandudno is located amongst hills and we noticed Wales is very clean, no litter over the street like in England. Town looks similar to any town from southern Europe - palms were planted at the fronts of many hotels, especially at the promenade. Generally Llandudno is colorful and bilingual - pretty much of its population speak in Welsh. We had a lunch in one the restaurants and after we directed to Llandudno's pier. Afterwards we directed out from town and straight up to Great Orme/Y Gogarth peninsula. Beware of seagulls overthere. :D They are really big and very greedy for your food. :L ... read more

Neuropsychologists know that the way the human mind experiences time is largely dependent on mechanisms in our brain that we are born with. Every human being has a brain "biorhythm." This is the general "pulse" of electricity through the brain. It can vary in different environments between thousandths of a second and about 3 or 4 seconds. This biological timepiece effects the way cognition and memory process information; the more shocking, novel, boring, or detailed our input is, the more we'll deem the time as "dragging". That is to say, if it requires lots of memory processing of small details (especially if they are related to the body) time seems protracted. However, if you are doing a complex task (processing lots of small details), but that task is routine, then time seems compressed--it seems to go ... read more

Well, as of right now I'm sitting in the Ty Coch Inn on the beachfront in Morfa Nefyn, on the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales. I drove down (or up I suppose) to Wales on Friday to have one more weekend visit with my Nain (welsh for grandmother), Aunts, and cousins. On Saturday a few of us went out hiking down a river, then swam in the river at Cwm Pennant (pronounced Coom Pennant, as far as this canadian can figure). Today I'm spending the afternoon on the beach, and in the pub updating my blog. Tomorrow, if you can believe it, I'm going skiing with my 15 year old cousin Taran in Llandudno. The pub is closing, so I'm off, but I'll be back on soon...With pictures and video!!!... read more

I’ve officially had my first “holiday” and what a great one it was. There was no school on Friday or Monday. I have no idea why we were off; I never got around to asking. Elizabeth picked me up on Thursday after school and we headed south to Wales. It didn’t take long at all. We were at our B and B by 7:00 that night. We stayed in the town of Llandudno. As soon as I saw the scene, I knew we would have fun. The beach was a large crescent with two large rocks at each end. There was a wide promenade to walk from one end to the other and a long pier to walk out as well. The buildings were all beautiful with plenty of wonderful pubs and restaurants to choose from. ... read more