Phew, that took a lot out of me. Even typing that is a task. Anyways, heres what that means: "The Church of Mary in the Hollow of the White Hazel Near the Fierce Whirlpool and the Church of Tysilio by the Red Cave." Yeah...don't ask. All I can tell you is that its pretty ridiculous that the above translates into that, and the mere fact that it happens to be the name of a town is beyond me.
But anyway, we got some lunch, piled back into the bus and continued through Wales. As we got further in, you could see the mountains clearly in the background of the landscape. It was really nice. I think the further we drove into Wales the more and more beautiful it got. We stopped again not too much longer after LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH (muahahaha :-P) at Beaumaris Castle.
Beaumaris Castle was awesome. One, I love castles and that sorta thing, and two, i love history. So this was right up my alley. Being able to roam free in the remains of a castle made my day. I learned a good amount about the castle and the history of Wales while I was there as well, so I can say it was almost overwhelming. It felt great to climb up to the walkway around the walls of the castle keep and look out over the surrounding terrain.
After Beaumaris, we had another 3 hour bus ride to our hotel in Llangollen. When we finally arrived most of us were relieved. That was definitely enough travel for one day. The relief was suddenly disturbed though when we realized what it was going to take for us to get to our rooms. The hotel was historic, and small. There were no elevators, just lots of narrow stairways in all sorts of directions. Finding your room was like reaching the end of a maze. We lucked out and our room was only two flights up. But, I felt so bad for everyone who had to lug their suitcases up "X" amount of flights of horribly narrow stairways to get to their room. I think we all lucked out and got the "crooked room." What I mean is that all the rooms were crooked in some way. Ours was on an incline from the door to the far wall and then dipped to the side at then entrance to the bathroom. Nonetheless, I was just happy to see a bed that I could lay down in because I was running on only a couple hours of rest.
After dinner at the hotel, David had mentioned taking a walk up to the ruins of Dinas Bran castle, which is where the film "Camelot" was shot. Despite the cold, it being late night, and the fact that the ruins were literally on top of a mountain, a good bunch of us decided to venture to the Dinas Bran ruins. The trek was so much fun, and being up on top of the mountain where you could see the entire town of Llangollen was amazing. This was definitely the best part of our stay in Wales. Luckily we had the moonlight to help guide our way up and down the mountain. When we returned, it was time for a drink in the hotel pub, which was awesome by the way, and to head to bed.
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