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8 Days in Wales

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This blog is documenting everything that I did on my round the world trip last July 2007 with my friend Bree. It was my very first overseas trip and it consisted of a stay in Signapore, before heading to London to begin an 18 day Contiki European Impressions tour, we then spent time with family in Wales before heading back to London. We then flew to New York for another quick contiki tour, and finished up in Hawaii for a relaxing finish. We quite literally did a full circle of the globe.

8 Days in Wales

views of Altwenne, Wales

We spent the next 8 days in Wales spending time with Bree's family and mostly relaxing, as we still had a few weeks of our trip to go, as well as another continent!

For the entire time I was in Wales I had developed a bad cough that I must have caught off Bree.  The first night I was coughing so bad that Bree's grandfather took both of us to the doctor's.  He lied and said that we were only in the country for a little while and that we were quite sick so we were allowed to make an appointment at the local medical centre.  I never get sick, and for the first time in my life, I got a throat infection and went on anti-biotics.  Thanks Bree :)!  Well they definitely did the job and within a week I felt better.

While in Wales we went shopping in Swansea, drove in a sports car to Cardiff, had icecream at Mumbles and visited a fair few pubs!  One pub experience in Neath with Bree's cousin Mike is definitely memorable!  Let's just say Tequila and the worm were involved!

Bree's grandfather also took us sightseeing, as Wales is so beautiful and green.  The weather was also much cooler to the rest of Europe and we appreciated that.  We also appreciated being able to sleep for 8 consecutive hours.  We had been living off about 3 hours of sleep a night for the last 3 weeks so that was good too!

On our last day we had a nice pub lunch with Bree's grandfather in Neath and caught the train back to London in the afternoon.

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views of Altwenne, Wales
views of Altwenne, Wales
Swansea castle
Swansea castle
Cardiff castle
Cardiff castle
our home for 8 days
our home for 8 days
Me and Bree in the hills
Me and Bree in the hills
pouring a beer
pouring a beer
Brees massive dessert
Bree's massive dessert
My massive cheese cake
My massive cheese cake
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