Wales is rainy and wet like usual and really puts me off going anyway but I did make some sort of effort. I wanted them to see some Welsh history and also took them to see the sights in London.

20061227 UK Castle Coch
This castle was actually rebuilt and it is kept fairly built up unlike some of the other ruins in Wales (although they are breathtaking too). It gives a nice impression of how people might have lived in the past. Anyway we went on a grey day to find some of the castle covered in scaffolding unfortunatly. Still the castle was nice enough to walk around. It’s smaller than I thought though. When I was a child this fairy tale castle seemed much larger.

20061228 UK London
One of my visiting friend’s hadn’t been to London before so we took a day out there. We did the tourist thing and saw all the sites there including Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, houses of Parliament, London eye, Tower bridge, a walk on the river etc. We wanted to see London Dungeon too but when we got there the queue was huge and the lady said even if we waited in line we probably wouldn’t get in. After all the sights we headed to a restaurant that my other friend suggested but we had to wait for 40 minutes to get a table but the food portions were large. A tiring day all in all.