Blogs from Conwy, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe - page 6

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

...Full Of Beautiful People That Speak Funny!! Out of the capital and back on the train, I had a full day of travel ahead of me. From Cardiff across to Heresbury, a rail replacement bus to Shewersbury, and back onto a train to get into North Wales. Not a good start when the first train runs twenty minutes late before even boarding. Luckily, the bus waited for us at Heresbury for the replacement service but dropped us of two minutes after the next train connection left. It was an hour wait for the next one which then made me reach my final destination at around 8pm. One hell of a day!! On a brighter note though, I got to see a lot of countryside including some of the places my father used to talk about going ... 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

The Roma Christmas was exciting again this year. The family congregations were spread over a few days and we indulged in more turkey, pudding and yummy goodies than required. We had Christmas day in London and then another gathering in Birmingham on Boxing Day. We have never indulged in so much kareoke in my life than in that one night alone! But it was fun for the kids and the 'grown ups' all singing along together, letting our hair down and dancing the night away. The occasional song brought a tear to the eye (not sure if it was the choice of song or the singing), and of course it was just nice to be able to be away from London and spend time with the family. But after Birmingham our holiday started. We'd hired a ... read more

...and we were off for another browse, this time to Wales - North Wales, UK! For some reason, we all have always been a fan of Last Minute adventures and planning for this trip was no different any of the previous ones. Alike, previous trips I was struggling to get good deals for accomodation and transportation.. Without going off the tangent, we decided to explore North Wales during Christmas vacation this year (2008), 'Decision was made 5 days prior to travel' without realizing this year's Christmas break is of 4 days at a stretch and it could be difficult to make arrangements (as, obviously, it was). However, as some wise person has said "Where there's a Will, there's a Way" and we found our way out. My previous experience with travelling and bookings lit a spark ... read more