Europe 2014: Wales

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Wales 27th - 30th July 2014
This blog is a bit light on for text/photos as we have been relaxing plus finishing booking the Ireland & Scotland legs plus the next Spanish leg having decided to include Portugal.

We drove from Bristol towards Cardiff paying the one way toll on the bridge of $A12 then kept driving to Swansea and then to the far SW tip for the day. We had booked the Premier Inn in Cardiff well in advance for 3 nights at the grand total of GBP 33 per night which just seems crazy. It was a super hotel right in the middle of town.

The second day we explored to the North before returning the car and having our third day to explore the city on foot (and have internet time to catch up on Ireland plans). Day four fly to Dublin with Aer Lingus who were great.

Cardiff heritage facade - helping the cement blend in behind

Wales has everything written in Welsh as well - we were asking the two girls who checked us in at the airport about how many people speak Welsh and they said that quite a few especially up North. One of the girls went to school that is taught in Welsh but she said she doesn't remember much having not practiced. She also said that it is much easier as more phonetic than English.