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Cardiff |
17th July The morning begun with a nice walk in Cardiff. A couple asked me for coins. I didn`t have a particular purpose. I reached Cardiff Bay, wandered in the city centre and admired the Park Bute, a huge greenery in the midst of the city.
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Cardiff Millenium Centre |
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Cardiff Castle |
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Trash disposal |
Cardiff`s (or Welsh) rubbish disposal was interesting. Here we have rubbish containers in both private houses and blocks of flats and recylcing bins. There they had rubbish in plastic bags but that put on the streets.
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Cardiff Pier |
As usual when travelling, cereals for breakfast (and lactose a.k.a. milk, results of that obvious in just a few days) and fruit. We could also order British breakfast but we didn`t eat that, too heavy. With the exception of toast with the tasty salty butter and the delicious orange Marmalade. As I normally don`t eat white bread I haven`t looked if it is available anywhere in Estonia. After breakfast we took the short drive to the Cardiff Pier.
Then a longer drive to the West coast of Wales. Cliffs, the sea😊 In my first post I didn`t write about traffic. I have previously driven from Heathrow airport to the southern coast and the traffic was totally normal. Well, maybe driving back to the airport we had to nearly stop moving about 10km before the airport. But eventually cars moved on. This time I was really surprised by the heavy traffic on the motorway from Gatwick towards Heathrow and then Wales. In the motorway where there are at least three lanes the top speed was 30mph (usual 12mph). So we thought it would be better in Wales 😀 There is a lovely, wide motorway towards Swansea. Fortunately it got better when it turned into a regular road. And then there were the cute, curvy, hedge-boardered one (or one and a half) lane roads. Can someone please explain the reason for the hedges? For you not to see any of the magical landscape? Well, my guess is, they are there to keep your full attention to the road at all times 😊 The daredevil cyclists and approaching cars.
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Blue Lagoon, Wales |
About 12 miles of these brilliant roads led us to
Abereiddy (Welsh:
Abereiddi), a hamlet in the county of Pembrokeshire, in south-west Wales and finally the
Blue Lagoon that is an old slate quarry now flooded by the sea. Blue Lagoon is 25 metres deep and due to minerals in the quarry has a greenish-blueish colour. Located in a stunning coast with gorgeous views. We also say divers and swimmers. Parking cost £4. Several walking paths start (or continue) from the Blue Lagoon. We saw so many public walking paths across Wales throughout our drive.
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St David`s Cathedral |
Then
St Davids,The UK`s smalles city in terms of both size and population. There is a huge
cathedral holding the same name.
St David`s Cathedral is named after
St David, the patron saint of Wales, a bishop who lived in the 6th century and later regarded as saint.
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Welsh rarebit |
We ate our lunch in
The Bishops and had a misunderstanding with the food name. One of Welsh must-eat foods is
rarebit. When I googled it I saw that its original name is Welsh rabbit and that was it. The price seemed fine so we ordered the rabbit. And received to plates of cheese sandwiches. We looked for the rabbit but couldn`t locate any. After, when I googled it again it turned out that rarebit`s original name is indeed Welsh rabbit but actually a cheese sandwich hides behind that name 😀
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Coach Guesthouse |
As the British soliders are holding their shooting exercises in the southern coast we had to skip St Govan`s Chapel and the Huntsman`s Leap (well, I have to have something for next time). So our final destination for the day was a lovely walled seaside town
Tenby. We stayed at the cosy
Coach Guesthouse. Mike made us feel very welcome. This is the only b&b that I booked on the 1st of April 2017 and stook to that (originally I booked all my b&b`s on that date but late found better options).
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Tenby, St Catherine`s island |
We saw the 13th century city walls, walked in the streets and bought lunch for the next day beaucse we had a long drive ahead and I didn`t want to waste any time. There was a low tide in the evening that allowed us see the beauticul cave under
St Catherine`s tidal island. We walked to Tenby castle`s hill and enjoyed the stunning views of Tenby`s sandy beaches, iridescent sea and colourful buildings.
Beef and ale pie for dinner in
Billycan.
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Tenby |
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