Friday, 4 January 2013

A Welsh Christmas

Okay so this was written on the 30th of Dec only just getting to upload it now!


WALES

So I have been in Wales for the last 8 nights and it has been so so nice to spend time with family. I arrived here on the 22nd and am writing this on the train back to London. Soo where to start... Well most of the time here I have just been chilling and hanging with the fam and I have to say nothing beats that even a night out in Paris. Watching lots of Friends and eating lots of chocolate – Dave swain is the worst influence ever. When he picked me up from the airport he just cranked a whole packet out the inside pocket of his jacket casually, its always stored away somewhere on him. So naturally one of my Christmas presents was a whole huge dairy milk block yummm. Aside from our many games of Ps and As (reigning champion if we don’t count last night which im deciding that we don’t) and Cluedo we had many nice dinners. One at Gwens caths sister in law – amazing food she is French so im assuming that means makes delicious food because that was just amazing. That night we exchanged some pressies and played some rock band on wii which is actually so fun. Then on Christmas we had more present exchanges and then a delicious dinner cooked by Cath with her parents which was also amazing. Then on boxing day uncle david and I went to see phantom of the opera at the millennium centre which was so cool, really glad i got to see a show here the whole thing was just so well done and really good singers/actors. Apparently the guy running it is like “the guy” in terms of west end musicals so pretty cool. Then we did a bit of a sight seeing day and went to st Fagans which is like all these old houses from 17th to 19th Century which have been moved to this one site. Really interesting to see how people would have lived in those times ranging from the well off to the super poor. And interesting to see their methods of cooking etc. Then the next day we went on a day trip to Bath. LOVED bath. So pretty. Went to see the roman baths which were also so interesting. So the baths were all excavated 200 years ago when people realised there was like a whole town under the city. You could see how the romans would have used the baths back in roman times it was unlike anything ive seen before. And the whole town was just really pretty all yellow stone buildings. Yesterday we went shopping in Cardiff which was nice bought my one item from Wales which was a red woollen jersey cheap and good quality. Got to experience my one night out in Cardiff last night and I was impressed! Had some drinks at Joe’s student house before heading out which is always where the most fun is had. Converted Ps and As into a drinking game which i can report back doooesnt really work since everyone is too competitive to want to drink and lose their concentration and since i was losing i wasn’t exactly amping on the game as im sure you can understand. Anyway we headed out spent the night at one bar which was just too fun to leave lots of old 90s music that reminded us so much of bach times and family stuff. So cool to have a night out with Joe bron dan and chloe and a couple of their friends. Danza is officially named the human dustbin amongst the welsh they are astonished at how much he can eat and given he had 22 chicken nuggets as a casual after town snack last night i can understand this name. Anyway im now headed back to London to stay one night then the contiki starts tomorrow! Having dinner with larissa tonight which will be nice to catch up on the last few weeks. Until next time!

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