Liverpool was a hop, skip and a jump across the border into England from our base in northern Wales at Rowena’s house in Maeshafn, an easy drive through the nearby […]
Month: November 2021
Conwy Castle 🏰
We went to Cowy Castle with Rowena for the forth day in Northern Wales. It was cool because you could walk almost anywhere on your own. We went there early […]
Football ⚽️
In northern Wales I had a new experience and got to go to a soccer game (the game was actually in England). The teams playing were Stoke FC, which was […]
Pantomime in Wales
For our second day staying with Rowena in Wales, Max and I got surprised by getting to go see the Beauty and the Beast 🌹. It was a great play […]
Llanychaer and Southern Wales
It was a bit of a slog from Cornwall in southwestern England around the Bristol Channel and across southern Wales from east to west. The drive had us all longing […]
Carew Castle and Mill
We went to a castle on a rainy Wednesday morning and toured it inside and out. There were about 20 rooms but we only saw 14. All of the walls […]
Carew Castle
We are in Wales and on Wednesday we went to a 2000 year old castle near Pembrokeshire. We toured 14 parts of the castle. Five things I learned: A nobleman […]
Cornwall
The South West Coast Path is England’s longest marked hiking trail and is also a National Trail. It stretches for 630 miles/1015 kilometers, running from Minehead in Somerset, along the […]
Bristol and Bath
Bristol and Bath are tucked below the southern border of the Cotswolds, the former we visited on a day trip from our base in the English countryside in Welford-on-Avon, and […]
The Cotswolds
Rolling hills covered with a patchwork of hedge-fenced, sheep-filled paddocks stretching between quaint English villages with names like Dorsington and Chipping Campden, the Cotswolds was quintessential English countryside. Our arrival […]
Riding in the UK
Going horse riding in the UK was the best horse riding I had ever done. First of all, I didn’t just walk I trotted and cantered as well. I found […]
Oxford
Lisa deposited the kids and me in Oxford for the day from our base in the Cotswolds on her way further south to sample some of southern England’s bubbles at […]