The Wind Down

Cardiff Castle was great. It was situated right in the middle of Cardiff's downtown core and was massive.

It's a very traditional looking castle with four straight, high walls forming a big square wall. In the center of the castle grounds is a tall keep surrounded by a moat. Very cool. On one side of the outer walls was the living area of the castle.



We went in for a tour and it was really neat inside. The last person who owned it decided to spend a LOT of money in decorating it in a medieval style. All of the rooms were incredibly ornate and very elaborate.

Unfortunately, we weren't allowed to take pictures indside, only out.

After leaving Cardiff, we made a slight detour, north, into Wales so we could visit another place on our list.

8. Tintern Abbey. Made more infamous because of poets such as Wordsworth. It is a very large and very run down abbey. Crumbling walls in the back, but the front was still standing in it's magnifisance.

It was beautiful.

I could just imagine what it must have looked like back when it was all done up with stained glass windows and such.

9. Bath. was a really nice city. We would actually like to go back and wander around a bit more. We saw a couple of roman inspired buildings that were apparently a architectual wonder. We wandered into the baths, but opted not to go for the tour, perhaps we will go back some other time to do so. It really was a beautiful city though.

After that, we drove back down to Teignsmouth, dropped John off and Ronnie was gracious enough to let us stay there for the night. She even fed us a nice fish and chips for dinner. We left them the next morning and drove home to Bournemouth.... but not without a quick stop in Swanage so Pete could see the thing he'd been talking about all week... Thomas the Tank engine.