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Published: November 8th 2007
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On the Wall
I'm with Abbi and Katie and we're standing on a part of the city wall in Conwy. Hello Again.
I've just had an amazing weekend in Wales with my flatmates. We stayed in Conwy, in Northern Wales. It was so beautiful and serene there. Very idyllic. We were there from the 26th to the 28th of Oct. We arrived around eight on the 26th so we didn't see much of the town, but we did search for food, and found the Archway, a cheap yet good take-away shop. The welsh beef actually tastes like beef. I was impressed. Our hostel was at the top of a very steep incline. It was a workout trying to walk up that after wandering around half-starved looking for food.
We were up bright and early on the 27th and we met our wonderful guide, Llewelyn. He was very knowledgeable. He gave us history of the town, the city wall which is mostly still intact as well as the castle. We walked with him to the Tallest Tower, the Northwest tower of the wall and after we paced around the city walls for a while. It was a gorgeous view with the fall colours and the harbour in the background. Touring the castle was an experience. It was build by
Lleweyln
This is our guide nearing an arch in the city wall. On the right side is the entrance to the wall. King Edward I in 1283. It has eight very impressive towers build 50 ft apart. It is a very impressive fortress. Especially at night when the floodlights illuminate it. It's spectacular.
After the castle, our coach driver Bob drove us to Blaunau Ffestiniog to visit the Llechwedd Slate Caverns. The drive was so cool, the scenery was perfect. We drove into some fog, and couldn't see anything I could barely see the road from my seat, but we made it to the Caverns. And the Caverns...what can I say about them but I must start at the beginning of when we alighted from the bus. It was raining, pretty heavily so we ran across a fog covered parking lot trying to find the building as we also attempted to keep dry. Once we got inside we were greeted with a display of various commercialised Hallowe'en figurines. The radio was playing The Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. It was very surreal. We were then lead back out into the rain by our fearless leader, Storm to another building where we were going to take the Deep Mine Tour. We were given hard hats, and told to clamber
City of Conwy
This is a model of how the city, wall and the castle used to look in the medival days. into what I have nicknamed
little yellow carriages of death.
From there we descended over 180 ft underground in the dark, in cramped metal boxes that kept swaying frenziedly. We were all making videos of our last words and the great majority of us were sure that Storm was leading us to our deaths. When the tour began we were sent into the blacked-out caverns alone, no guide. Our guide was a disembodied voice of a Victorian slate Minor who had spent his whole life within the caverns. It was morbid, scary and very disturbing. But overall it was very interesting. The most amazing part of the caves was the underground lake, it was crystal clear, you could see various mining equipment within the waters. It was pretty cool.
During our weekend in Wales, we were lucky to encounter the Conwy Food Festival. It's supposed to be the best community festival in Britain. It was pretty cool we had lunch and dinner there. We just wandered around from stall to stall and ate until we were full.
On the 28th We drove to Llanberis, where we took a train up Mt. Snowdon, the tallest Mountain in the UK (I think.) The scenery
Conwy
View of Conwy off the wall. Beautiful. was again amazing. It was so breathtakingly gorgeous. We rode the up 3/4 of the Mountain then got out and looked around. Freezing, it was so incredibly cold. But it was really spectacular. When the fog rolled in there was no visibility at all, but it was gone as soon as it had come. Then those who wanted to join Storm in climbing up the rest of the way up and then back down could. I was not one who wanted to. Erin Bailey, Bob, Abbi, Katie and I rode back down and drove over to Pehnryn castle. It was a fantastic piece of Victorian Architecture. It was so amazing. We wandered through and had a spot of tea. Then we met the climbers and then we travelled back home. It was about a four hour drive, and a good chance to sleep.
It was in short an Amazing weekend. I loved every minute of it.
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