I will try only a couple of pictures in this posting since I'm not sure how they will flow (if at all) having created the post offline.
By the way, we learned that "wold" means "on the upland" ... the Cotswold area is famous for the quality of wool produced but over the past several years the locals have started "harvesting tourists" as a better cash crop. Since we had a 3+ night stay at the farm we were allowed a tour of "the farm" by Lucy's husband Paul. So Saturday morning after breakfast we piled in the Land Rover with Paul and took a 30 minute tour of the 600 acre working farm. They have 600 registered Charlois (pronounced Char Lay) cattle and 1200 sheep and they raise horses for hunting fox. It is definitely a family business with Lucy's parents handling much of the farming with her husband Paul. Her parents also lease out several houses to tourists as does her sister. Lucy's family has been on the farm for 5 generations ... the B&B building was constructed in 1624 ... I guess it isn't a temporary fixture in the village at this point.
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We bid a fond farewell to Lucy King and "The Farm" in Weston-Sub-Edge in the English Cotswolds yesterday morning about 9:45am headed for Wales. The drive to Holyhead where we had the next B&B was about 210 miles.
We had opted to drive on some of the lesser roads for this leg of the trip so we could pass through the Snowdonia National Forest and see a few sights along the way. We knew that this route would take us down some fairly narrow roads but none of us were prepared for one of them ... I'll put a picture here and if it doesn't flow to the weblog when online I'll edit it in.
This road was barely the width of our fairly compact vehicle and we drove down it 9 miles ... aaaaaiiiiiiieeeee
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As one of the sights along the way we stopped at a small 'artisans park' where there various crafts being displayed and a 'ride' called "King Arthur's Labyrinth". This was a ride where we entered a revamped 8 level slate mine The operator of the attraction had posted various sets of figures throughout the mine depicting stories about King Arthur from a Welsh perspective. I'll post a few pictures here to give you an idea ...
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We did NOT go to this 'attraction' ...
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Another part of our drive through the park took us to Swallow Falls ... about 4 miles of cascading water ... it was raining fairly steady as we got out to look at this natural wonder.
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We arrived in Holyhead, Wales around 6PM and had a little trouble finding our inn for the night but thanks to "Wicked Wanda" our GPS friend we managed to locate the Monrovan B&B ... it's really a nice place and the proprietor is a friendly fellow.
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I had a Steak & Ale pie for dinner ... think a VERY GOOD beef pot pie ... it was fine!!
We've had breakfast
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That brings us up to date ... sitting waiting to drive over to the ferry.
I'll post this to the web log once I get WiFi ... hopefully on board the ferry.
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