For a quick holiday we went to the middle of Wales for three days, to a place called Aberystwyth. (Abb-er-rist-with). It’s a long way from anywhere…
It took us four hours to get there from Leicestershire, to give you an idea of how far away it is. The main city of Wales – Cardiff – is a hundred miles away from it. If the only cinema in Aberystwyth closed, it would be a 140 mile round trip to see a movie!
I love visiting Wales, despite it’s strange language full of consonants. “Restaurant” in Welsh is “bwyty”, for example. Crossing the border means that all the road signs are in two languages.
The roadsigns bark at you!
Sunsets (Click on a picture to embiggen!)
Vale of Rheidol Railway
This was a tiny (I could stretch across the carriage) steam railway into the edge of the Cambrian mountains. Quite a view, and it beats driving!
The Old College, or Hogwarts-by-the-sea
Aberystwyth has a cool university site, but it stands empty now (I think it’s just what they want us Muggles to think), which seems a shame. It was empty when we went inside, and I would have liked to have walked around more, but I wasn’t sure I was allowed. It has a real Harry potter feel to it – a staircase seems to go up nine floors, but it’s only a four floor building…
Random stuff
Next major trip planned: Maybe Amsterdam!
Thanks for the pictures, I thoroughly enjoyed them.
Thank you Diana! I had fun taking them and posting them!
I’m glad you had such a good time! The sunsets look gorgeous!
Thank you! It was a gorgeously sunny three days!