Wales - Two Drifters

Two Drifters

Wales

A collection of 11 posts

Guarding the fishes

Guarding the fishes

Well wasn't yesterday's entry boring. My only defence is that the day itself was quite boring. 4 hours of tedious motorway driving. Very little to relate. And the pub wasn't very exciting. Apart from us, a maximum of 2 customers in the bar and being reticent South Wales almost impossible

Here I go again

Here I go again

Mamma Mia! It's a tedious drive down to Bancyfelin. Just a few miles outside Carmarthen and 4 hours of motorway or equivalent all the way. Just over 200 miles. The exact figure would be available if a) Osmand mapping hadn't changed the way it's measuring works (or if I could

Sun 25 - Mumbles of discontent

Sun 25 - Mumbles of discontent

Before I start something I forgot from yesterday - a ‘made me smile’ as we drove through Treorchy Liz pointed a local eating establishment with the wonderful title “Good pie Mr Chips”. Wonder if they do battered donats, food fit for the Hilton perhaps. I’ve just finished reading a

Sat 24 - Roots

It’s not often Facebook can be considered a force for good. But, earlier this week we read a post that rippled through the ether. It was from someone pondering on how best to spend his new plastic fiver. He decided a donation to charity would be a good thing

Fri 23 - God performs magic, in mysterious ways

Fri 23 - God performs magic, in mysterious ways

A comment on yesterday’s scribblings was that a reader was unaware of alcopops. Some history of alcohol - the reason CAMRA was formed back in in the early 70s was that brewers had started to coalesce. The big 6 brewers (Watney, Whitbread, Bass, Courage, Ind Coope, and Scottish&Newcastle)

Thur 22 - Conan The Destroyer

Thur 22 - Conan The Destroyer

Well the first sour point of the trip last night. Needing a few essentials we walked a mile or so to a local street shopping area, you know the place, cheap pizza houses, charity shops and a Tescos Metro. Next to Tescos was The Ivor Davies, a Wetherspoon pub (named

Wed 21 - Falling in love with a West-Indian girl

Wed 21 - Falling in love with a West-Indian girl

I’d like to complain! The campsite is having some work done today and I was roused from my slumbers by the noise of a concrete mixer and pump not too far away. I’d like to complain, but won’t; to be fair these almost certainly didn’t arrive

Tues 20 - Downtown Cardiff

Tues 20 - Downtown Cardiff

We’re in Wales now. Not a fact that could be easily missed - all those huge signs, twice the size of their English counterparts, to direct and inform bilingually. Of course, such multi-culturalism is a good thing and the renaissance of Welsh as a living language is nothing short

Mon 19 - Seidr

Seidr - Welsh for cider. A cunning way to conjoin today’s themes. For, indeed, Wales is today’s destination (its capital Cardiff to be precise) but a cider farm en route perhaps. Gwatkins is a cider that often appears at beer festivals so was known to Liz and I

Thur - Black Books and Girl Guides

Thur - Black Books and Girl Guides

Wherever you think of sporting universities I doubt Aberystwyth is foremost. Yet it must breed the fittest students in the UK, having its buildings atop a steep hill on the northern edge of the town (I don't think Aber is a city). Of course our campsite is in the valley

Weds - another country

Weds - another country

I did warn you the blog might get a bit sporadic. It's all about when time permits. Unlike proper writers I don't have the luxury of waiting for the muse to inspire byt have to shoot from the hip when time permits. Monday and Tuesday are spent visiting my sister