Back from wales!
We arrived back from our holiday to Wales on Saturday afternoon - we drove to wales and back from wales in snow with cold and damp weather in between! Thanks to Martin who organised the week away again - we had a great time (also with warren and zoe etc). We had a brilliant place to stay a 16th century country dwelling with six bedrooms - the kids loved it running around and exploring everywhere - the owners were really welcoming as well which was good - it was about two miles from Dolgellau in the Snowdonia National Park. Wales really is a beautiful place as well - I did feel on edge though about not having particularly warm welcomes from the locals - we were talking about it as we went in to a local pub one evening in Dolgellau - and the whole pub stopped talking and looked at us - it was perfectly ok - and took them a while to switch in to Welsh lol. Still we won £22 out of the fruit machine - and besides - if you walk in the Waggon it is like that!
We did quite a lot whilst we were there - went to Barmouth twice - a beautiful place, visited a slate mine, the centre for alternative technology (though it was closed when we went - but didn't look much good anyway - bit 80's / 90's rather than urgent 2000's and incorporating new technology developments, Lake Bala, Beyws-y-coed and Porthmadog (I think that was it - bit run down but could be beautiful - probably is in summer). The advantage of going when we do is that we can walk straight in to places and see things rather than lots of queues an fighting for car parking spaces. Photos are now in the photos section.
So was very relaxed after than holiday - and my new years resolution (or one of them) is to take more holidays this year - though I guess the new baby in March / April will take some of that time away.
Went back to work today - I was really dreading it as I was going to be away from Rebecca for the whole day - the first time in two weeks - she has been so fantastic and is changing every day - saying new words and is understanding lots of things now and is learning things we teach her - she is soo happy too, laughing all the time - but guess I have to go back to work - though that is another new year resolution to work fewer hours.
Off to Eastbourne tomorrow for Bob's funeral :-(
We did quite a lot whilst we were there - went to Barmouth twice - a beautiful place, visited a slate mine, the centre for alternative technology (though it was closed when we went - but didn't look much good anyway - bit 80's / 90's rather than urgent 2000's and incorporating new technology developments, Lake Bala, Beyws-y-coed and Porthmadog (I think that was it - bit run down but could be beautiful - probably is in summer). The advantage of going when we do is that we can walk straight in to places and see things rather than lots of queues an fighting for car parking spaces. Photos are now in the photos section.
So was very relaxed after than holiday - and my new years resolution (or one of them) is to take more holidays this year - though I guess the new baby in March / April will take some of that time away.
Went back to work today - I was really dreading it as I was going to be away from Rebecca for the whole day - the first time in two weeks - she has been so fantastic and is changing every day - saying new words and is understanding lots of things now and is learning things we teach her - she is soo happy too, laughing all the time - but guess I have to go back to work - though that is another new year resolution to work fewer hours.
Off to Eastbourne tomorrow for Bob's funeral :-(
posted by Andy Watts at Monday, January 09, 2006
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