2008 - United Kingdom - Day 6 - Conwy and Leeds

We were able to sleep in this morning since we didn’t have to be at the bus until 10 am. After breakfast, mom and I walked to the ASDA (family of Wal-Mart) to get some things. Prices are not like Wal-Mart though. I took a few more pictures of the coast and our hotel. We then drove to Beaumaris Castle, one of the many castles built along the Wales coast during the reign of Edward the first to keep Wales in submission. Along the way I noticed the sheep. There are tons of sheep in fields all over England and Wales was no different. But these sheep had green spray paint all over them. I told mom that somebody had vandalized the sheep. The castle was very beautiful. It still had water in the moat. We sat in the shade while Mike talked to us about the King Arthur poems. Then I climbed to the top walls and walked along the ramparts and got a few pictures before we headed off to the next castle of Conwy. Conwy Castle wasn’t as big as Beaumaris, but it was a little better preserved, showing the room structure inside the walls. After walking through the rooms we climbed a few towers, and then I climbed the tall turret. These castles were right on the seashore and there was sheep on the green fields on the other side, it was so beautiful. We had time to look in some shops and buy love spoons. I bought my boys some cool red dragon T-shirts. We walked along the town’s streets for a bit and bought some ice-cream. Then we drove 2 hours back into England and arrived at our hotel around 6:30 pm. They served us dinner in the hotel at 7 pm, which was really nice so we didn’t have to eat our tuna and crackers for dinner.