Whirlwind Trip of Great Britain - Part 3 - Down To Wales

We left Scotland just before noon on Wednesday and headed south for Wales.

The weather was quite nice at first, and John navigated us through a back road short-cut to the major motor-way, by-passing Glascow. Our travel books had very little to say of Glascow, and we'd enjoyed Edinburgh so much, so we decided that one major Scotish city was enough.

It was at this point of the trip, just before the Scotish-English border that we stumbled across a black sheep. One of John's friends was convinced that they don't exist, and John wanted to prove her wrong, so we pulled over. We all climbed out and took pictures.

The next 20 minutes saw us find dozens of black sheep in almost every field to the border.

Then it statrted to rain. Then the traffic got bad. Then it started raining harder. It took us almost four hours to drive from Edinburgh to Manchester. It took longer than that to drive from Manchester to Birmingham - a trip of less than a third of the distance.

By the time it was dark we had left the traffic and rain behind and crossed into Wales. WE made the short trip to Cardiff - the Welsh capital - and set up camp for the night.

Thursday morning was spend joyfully exploring Cardiff's downtown - including castle and another comic book store.