First Field Trip

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Today we had our first field trip for the required class I'm taking, Introduction to Welsh Culture. First, we took a bus just 8 miles from Bangor to Caernarfon (pronounced cair-NAR-vun) Castle, the largest Norman castle in the world. It was still in really good shape, so we were able to go inside and walk through all the dark tunnels and dungeons and climb most of the towers. It was amazing and I took a ton of photos. Since we were so impressed with Caernarfon, we took a small detour to look at another castle on the way to our next stop. I don't remember the name of it...

Our second stop was a tour of the slate mines in Blaenau Ffestiniog (no idea how to pronounce that!). Apparently mining slate was a big industry here a while back and a pretty big deal. I didn't exactly care for being down in the mines, but the landscape around them was pretty awesome.

Fianlly, on the way back to Bangor, we stopped at a place called Swallow Falls. The were some amazing waterfalls. We weren't supposed to go until next weekend, but Tecwyn figured that with all of the recent rainfall, they would probably be flowing pretty strong - and they were!

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Photos

Caernarfon Castle
The front door

Caernarfon Castle
The courtyard

Eagle Tower
Tallest castle tower in the U.K.

Eagle Tower
View of the town from Eagle tower

Gwynedd
The town walls

Menai Strait
View from another tower

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The castle who's name I can't remember and the beautiful but also nameless town it graces

The Sun
Believe it or not, the sun does shine here ocassionaly

Slate Mine
Taking a very crowded train down into the mines.

Slate Tips
I thought the fog looked cool

Countryside
We've seen a LOT of sheep

Waterfall
This one turned out to be pretty wimpy

Swallow Falls
They were moving pretty fast

Comments

[Rebekah]

You are so lucky!!! I really wish I could be there with you!! Glad your having fun.

[Kathy]

Summer, the photos are gorgeous! Thanks for sending the address to me, and I look forward to more of your entries!!