Wales

[BOO]

1 hour ago, Gambit21 said:

I’m jealous.

One of the things I find endlessly fascinating and alluring about GB is the history.

 

So in the U.S. original New York is essentially gone, what little remains of original Boston or Philadelphia is a few hundred years old. Been there but a moment.

 

In Britain you can walk into a 700 year old Pub. Just from a structure standpoint that’s amazing to me, even if it was originally a carriage house or something. However in some cases an establishment has actually been a pub for all that time! You just can’t get that here. I use a pub only as an example - point is…history. I geek out on it a bit.

So I’m envious of your fantastic vacation.

 

 

If i chose to walk out of my front door now, in less than 2 minutes I could be stood outside Lincoln Cathedral with my back to a Castle (bit grand calling it that but it was/is) that dates back to Norman times if not more having walked under a stone gate dating back to the Romans. 5 minute drive in the other direction and Im at Scampton and all the more recent history that holds.  But im sat dumped in front of my puta cos a) its gone midnight but mainly b) because I take a lot of it for granted. 

 

I think sometimes we Brits mock the enthusism of visitors without realising how lucky we are. 

 

@Lusekofte I really pleased you enjoyed your stay (but can assure you that not all of the rest of the uk is same :-))

[AndyJWest]

14 minutes ago, Lusekofte said:

I tell you Wales should be on everybodys bucketlist. And I guess Rest of UK is the same.

 

Some of it. I won't name names, since it would upset the inhabitants of Slough, but there are places I'd definitely recommend avoiding, if you aren't a fan of anonymous nothingness interspersed with reminders of the futility of existence.  

[Gambit21]

13 minutes ago, BOO said:

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I think sometimes we Brits mock the enthusism of visitors without realising how lucky we are. 

 

 

Easy to take for granted I'm sure. I do the same thing with my surroundings (Pacific Northwest woods etc), just outside my door.

I have to make a point to remind myself to appreciate it sometimes.

 

 

[Hoss]

I've got to go visit Raptor..... he's a stones throw from the Welsh border, if DNA is accurate I'm 72% Welsh, 23% Scots Irish, with some Norwegian and German to top it off. Besides Rap owes me a pint. I've done did a 20 year long World Pub crawl thanks to the USN,  but never got to GB.

 

[Gambit21]

A pub crawl in GB would be heaven...bucket list.

[Hoss]

Australia was heaven on earth........ 

[ST_Catchov]

7 hours ago, AndyJWest said:

I won't name names, since it would upset the inhabitants of Slough, but there are places I'd definitely recommend avoiding,

 

What's wrong with Slough? Wales is okay but it looks really old. Slough is modern. And don't forget the renowned beat combo group Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers hailed from the picturesque surrounds of Slough.

 

 

Performed in the heritage listed Slough Town Hall, Summer 1967.

 

 

 

[DD_Arthur]

43 minutes ago, ST_Catchov said:

Performed in the heritage listed Slough Town Hall, Summer 1967.

 

 

 

That’s a listed building? Surely not??

[DD_fruitbat]

11 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

I’m jealous.

One of the things I find endlessly fascinating and alluring about GB is the history.

 

So in the U.S. original New York is essentially gone, what little remains of original Boston or Philadelphia is a few hundred years old. Been there but a moment.

 

In Britain you can walk into a 700 year old Pub. Just from a structure standpoint that’s amazing to me, even if it was originally a carriage house or something. However in some cases an establishment has actually been a pub for all that time! You just can’t get that here. I use a pub only as an example - point is…history. I geek out on it a bit.

So I’m envious of your fantastic vacation.

 

 

 

The church a few hundred metres up the road from my house is over a 1000 years old......

 

They had some really impressive design features in those old churches, the main one being the building is always at least 10 degrees C colder than outside......

[Cybermat47]

2 hours ago, ST_Catchov said:

 

What's wrong with Slough?

 

 

According to the historical documentary Hearts of Iron IV, Slough started WWII.

 

 

Spoiler

 

 

Back on topic, though, I watch Welsh TV, have a Welsh name, and live in New South Wales, so does that make me an honourary Welshman? ?

Edited April 21, 2023 by Cybermat47

[AndyJWest]

2 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

That’s a listed building? Surely not??

 

Sir John Betjeman who's opinion of Slough is well known, described the Town Hall as "a striving for unity out of chaos". Which is possibly accurate. They were striving for it, though one might well argue they didn't actually achieve it. And, entropy being what it is, the inevitable consequence of creating anything vaguely ordered out of chaos is that one increases bland uniform nothingness everywhere else. Slough is what the heat death of the universe will look like. The Town Hall is a monument to humankinds futile attempts to stave off the inevitable. As such, it probably merits listing...

[Lusekofte]

Primarket!

 

ladies passed Cardiff Castle and went into Primarket. 
whatt a hellish place right in the middle of very nice things. 
I gave my daughter the card and found a café

[Chief_Mouser]

@Gambit21 @Hoss If any one really is over here and up for pub crawl let me know. I've been in them all - well all of the good ones anyway. I spent thirty years being paid to travel the length and breadth of Britain and took advantage. ?

 

@Lusekofte if you are still around Shrewsbury then you need to visit the Loggerheads in Church Street. One of the great survivals from a lost age.

 

@DD_fruitbat afraid I won't be getting down your way for a pint again. No relatives left in East Kent now and the house is sold. ?

 

 

Edited April 21, 2023 by Chief_Mouser

[Gambit21]

6 hours ago, DD_fruitbat said:

 

The church a few hundred metres up the road from my house is over a 1000 years old......

 

See that is just incredible to me.

There’s a listed barn on the property where I live…it’s 50 years old or so. ? 

 

 

 

 

[AndyJWest]

The house I'm living in now is well over 100 years old. I stayed in a Welsh farmhouse once that dated from the 17th century.

[Lusekofte]

Cardiff Friday afternoon. A very good Vietnam restaurant topped it of

[von_Tom]

@Lusekofte I’m going to return the favour here. 
 

My wife and I went camping around Norway for our honeymoon. Up from Oslo, past Lillehammer, over to Bergen and then back through Telemark. The speed limit of 80km/h was odd at first but then relaxing - everyone was driving at the speed limit so you just trundle along. 
 

We adored the peacefulness and lack of people. We found some beautiful little places - a lake in a forest or a brook with glacier ice water. 
 

We enjoyed everywhere we went. The people were unfailingly polite and thankfully most spoke English. The “best” part for me was the hotdogs at every service station and the fries with piffi allkrydda on.

 

Camping just shy of a glacier and sharing a single flipping expensive bottle of beer was bliss. 

 

I doubt I’d have liked the winter but I do want to go to the north around Tromso. One day…

 

von Tom

[Lusekofte]

Today boat trip to Cardiff bay and a pint before sightseeing. 

[DD_Crash]

Have a look at Chester as well. Lots of history there, City Walls and some Roman stuff as well.

[BOO]

47 minutes ago, DD_Crash said:

Have a look at Chester as well. Lots of history there, City Walls and some Roman stuff as well.

 

Then go to Oldham before you head back - trust me - it will make it much easier...

[Lusekofte]

We are now planning on what to do. Take the plane we reserved or prolong our stay. 
Our daughter will study in Wales two more years. And we will come back two more years. We might take a flight to Glasgow next time and do Scotland before visiting Aberystwyth again. We been from north to south and it all been very exceptionally good experience. Love the places and people here

[Lusekofte]

Norwegian sailors made their mark. Merchant sailors during the two great wars memorials. Heroes in my eyes. Cardiff has not dissapointed

Tomorrow we go northwards again

[Gambit21]

16 hours ago, von_Tom said:

@Lusekofte I’m going to return the favour here. 
 

My wife and I went camping around Norway for our honeymoon. Up from Oslo, past Lillehammer, over to Bergen and then back through Telemark. The speed limit of 80km/h was odd at first but then relaxing - everyone was driving at the speed limit so you just trundle along. 
 

We adored the peacefulness and lack of people. We found some beautiful little places - a lake in a forest or a brook with glacier ice water. 
 

We enjoyed everywhere we went. The people were unfailingly polite and thankfully most spoke English. The “best” part for me was the hotdogs at every service station and the fries with piffi allkrydda on.

 

Camping just shy of a glacier and sharing a single flipping expensive bottle of beer was bliss. 

 

I doubt I’d have liked the winter but I do want to go to the north around Tromso. One day…

 

von Tom

Svalbard is on my list. Won’t be making any long-distance vacations if the Peru thing happen though.

[Lusekofte]

5 hours ago, Gambit21 said:

Svalbard is on my list. Won’t be making any long-distance vacations if the Peru thing happen though.

Was there 1 month moving all the family houses from Svea to Longyearbyen 

And build up a one room accommodation for the workers instead. 
It is kind of one of the places I rather be in a cruise boat and see it from small boats. 

Edited April 23, 2023 by Lusekofte

[Lusekofte]

Tenby Pembrokeshire another idyllic castle/ beach town

[Chief_Mouser]

5 hours ago, Lusekofte said:

Tenby Pembrokeshire another idyllic castle/ beach town

 

Agreed; it's a great place. If you cross the border back into England again let me know. You were only 40 miles away from me in Cardiff. I'll even buy you a pint.

[Lusekofte]

17 minutes ago, Chief_Mouser said:

 

Agreed; it's a great place. If you cross the border back into England again let me know. You were only 40 miles away from me in Cardiff. I'll even buy you a pint.

We are back in Aberystwyth , day after tomorrow We fly home. We done Wales from south to north and west. Next year we take Pembroke shire more I guess a week. We need a break. All this adventure really get a man tired. Next time we are back I plan a meeting with you. It would be nice. And I buy the pint

[Lusekofte]

Yes

 

back in Aberystwyth 

[Lusekofte]

Tenby Sorunded by beaches and citywalls. A napolitian fort on a island and one made by my ansestor in 1100 

This will probably be my laast spam

[Gambit21]

12 hours ago, Lusekofte said:

Was there 1 month moving all the family houses from Svea to Longyearbyen 

And build up a one room accommodation for the workers instead. 
It is kind of one of the places I rather be in a cruise boat and see it from small boats. 

 

 

I watch this channel...every video. We'd happily live there half of the year (including the polar night)

 

https://www.youtube.com/c/CeciliaBlomdahl

[Lusekofte]

Winter is the thing there. Dog sledge and skimobile 

[Cloyd]

"Winter is coming"

 

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