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We're home!
Sep. 20th, 2024 02:40 pmWe actually arrived back on Wednesday afternoon, but what with all the catching up of stuff online, shopping to replenish the fridge and doing a load of laundry, I haven't had time to process and post any photos.
This is just a quick overview of What We Did On Our Holiday, but I'll post more photos over the next few days.
We travelled down on Friday 13th September, and despite the inauspicious date, the journey went well. We spent the first night in the Holiday Inn opposite Cardiff Castle. The original plan had been to travel on the Saturday, but we discovered a few weeks ago that there is no train service at weekends at the moment from Shrewsbury to Newport. There is building work at Abergavenny and Cwmbran to replace the old footbridges with new ones that have lifts, so the line is closed for two days per week. As we weren't going to travel that far on a rail replacement bus, especially not for rail prices, we quickly booked the hotel room.
Waiting for the train in Machynlleth. Normally we'd be on the platform in the photo looking back at the main station buildings, but the lift on the footbridge was out of order, so all trains were stopping at the other platform, regardless of direction of travel.
On the Friday evening, our daughter A picked us up from the hotel and we went to her house for dinner. We had a very nice Chinese takeaway and a good catch up with A and granddaughter E and son-in-law D. We felt a little guilty about her picking us up from the hotel because the traffic was horrendous. There was a cricket match on at the ground near the hotel and hundreds of people were flocking to the game on foot. The traffic was very slow moving, but it all worked out in the end.
The following day we left our cases at the hotel and caught the water bus to Cardiff Bay. We walked round the barrage and met A again in Penarth. After going for a walk along the coast path together, she drove us back to the hotel and we transferred to the apartment we had booked for the rest of the stay.
The apartment is one we've stayed in several times before. It's right opposite the Principality Stadium, home of rugby matches and pop concerts. Taylor Swift was here not so long ago and our daughter-in-law and smallest granddaughter went to see her.
( More here... )
Lots more photos to come, but I'm doing a walk tomorrow around with a group from the Barmouth Walking Festival. I will be going round the Quaker sites in the role of Local Expert, so that's all I can write up today.
( Eowyn Challenge -- weekly progress report )
This is just a quick overview of What We Did On Our Holiday, but I'll post more photos over the next few days.
We travelled down on Friday 13th September, and despite the inauspicious date, the journey went well. We spent the first night in the Holiday Inn opposite Cardiff Castle. The original plan had been to travel on the Saturday, but we discovered a few weeks ago that there is no train service at weekends at the moment from Shrewsbury to Newport. There is building work at Abergavenny and Cwmbran to replace the old footbridges with new ones that have lifts, so the line is closed for two days per week. As we weren't going to travel that far on a rail replacement bus, especially not for rail prices, we quickly booked the hotel room.
Waiting for the train in Machynlleth. Normally we'd be on the platform in the photo looking back at the main station buildings, but the lift on the footbridge was out of order, so all trains were stopping at the other platform, regardless of direction of travel.
On the Friday evening, our daughter A picked us up from the hotel and we went to her house for dinner. We had a very nice Chinese takeaway and a good catch up with A and granddaughter E and son-in-law D. We felt a little guilty about her picking us up from the hotel because the traffic was horrendous. There was a cricket match on at the ground near the hotel and hundreds of people were flocking to the game on foot. The traffic was very slow moving, but it all worked out in the end.
The following day we left our cases at the hotel and caught the water bus to Cardiff Bay. We walked round the barrage and met A again in Penarth. After going for a walk along the coast path together, she drove us back to the hotel and we transferred to the apartment we had booked for the rest of the stay.
The apartment is one we've stayed in several times before. It's right opposite the Principality Stadium, home of rugby matches and pop concerts. Taylor Swift was here not so long ago and our daughter-in-law and smallest granddaughter went to see her.
( More here... )
Lots more photos to come, but I'm doing a walk tomorrow around with a group from the Barmouth Walking Festival. I will be going round the Quaker sites in the role of Local Expert, so that's all I can write up today.
( Eowyn Challenge -- weekly progress report )
