Blogs from Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom, Europe - page 5

Up early to talk to our girls before breakfast. It was 5pm in Melbourne , and they were off to celebrate my brother's birthday. We had breakfast, after our chat, then packed and moved on from Tudor Lodge. The weather again was unfavourable, and as we travelled, we went through patches of heavy rain. We were aiming to find the Tal-y-Lynn Railway on our way to Solva and thought we needed to go to Tywyn, where the railway begins. This railway was the first to open as a conservation railway. The Rev. W.A. Awdry (who wrote the Thomas the Tank engine books) wrote about the Lititle engines on this railway, Skarloey and Rheneus. As we were travelling to Tywyn, we came across a sign pointing us to the railway (one of the stations along the line) ... read more

As forecast the rain and wind did arrive overnight and this morning it is still raining so a good excuse to stay in bed a little longer as we are going to be later hitting the road to the far west of Wales. By the time we thought we had better be stirring, the sky was starting to look a little more like clearing. We haven’t had much rained off on us on the BBA V3 with the wettest days being when we have been travelling between accommodations. The west coast of Wales comes with some wild beauty and it may be that the wind that got up overnight might have made the seas on the coast the weather was coming from a little rougher and provide some photo opportunities. Our plan is to head northwest ... read more

My main source of learning Japanese is from books and sometimes videos from YouTube; I don't often watch them as at this stage I find it discouraging particularly when watching Gaijin speak fluently and having subtitles with all three alphabets included. One book I study is a little handbook called Japanese In 30 Days by a company called Berlitz, this is a good and bad book as it is completely in romaji for most of the exercises and quizzes. It builds up a big vocabulary step by step, but only '-masu' words which are the polite ending for verbs. If you're speaking to a fluent speaker, you might find it difficult to find the words you have learned as they'll sometimes most likely speak more casual like us Brits. However, the lists can be quite big ... read more

(Ok for the life of me I can't find what I wrote for July 15th when I left London to come to Cardiff... but uh, basically I was on a bus for a few hours and then I bummed around Cardiff because I've been here enough times I just like to bum around and yes. Exciting. Woot.) July 16 + 17: Pembrokeshire Story of my life, of course when I land in rural Wales the wifi doesn't work... creates an adventure alright. Also creates one very long travel journal ;) So, Wednesday I headed down to Pembrokeshire by train via Carmarthean. Two things I love about train travel here: one is the chug-a-lug is much louder in a good way and two is all the Welsh names haha. I mean you have to love a language ... read more

If I am to be completely honest with you, I will admit that before choosing to study in Southwest Wales I was only vaguely aware of the fact that Wales existed. I had always wanted to travel all over the world and especially to the UK; but to say that Wales was my original and ideal study-abroad location would be a lie. Now that I have lived here for even such a small amount of time after traveling the UK for about one month, I can honestly say that Southwest, Wales is the most beautiful location that I have ever lived at the heart of. I mean this both in the physical sense as well as in the spiritual sense as well. I have moved from place to place various times throughout my childhood, yet all ... read more