10 May ’05, Tuesday. Caernarfon Castle, Caernarfon Wales
Monday morning we pulled away from “Lake District” and continued towards Holyhead, were we will pick up our ferry to Ireland on Wednesday. We were traveling on the M6 Motorway, and passed some of the “big named towns” in England, so I’m sure we missed some very interesting sites. It was one of those moments of quick decisions, “we’ll just have to pass by, what ever it is we are missing”… These were towns and cities like Blackpool, Liverpool, Berkenhead, Warrington, and Chester to name a few…sorry…
About 2, we were driving again on one of those narrow, twisting, diving, roads, when we came across a food stand along side of the road, so we quickly drove in and had a great lunch. Then back on the road, we came to one of those roads decisions and I went one way and Louise wanted the other…”Well you had better let me know a little earlier !!!”, “I did, but as always, you didn’t listen !!!”…and so on…you know how that goes, right? Well, I didn’t turn around, so we ended up going on to Caernarfon and found our next campground there. Just as we were entering the roadway to the campground, across a field, we saw a huge castle. After paying and setting up, we headed off for a walk into the village, and a look at the Caernarfon castle. As it turns out, this is the castle were Prince Charles (the current Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales), was crowned “The Prince of Wales” in1969. As we were walking through the castle, they had 2 different audio/visuals that gave us wonderful information about this castle, the coronation, and others castles around this area of Wales. Wales is known to have more castles per square mile than anywhere else on earth (over 300). These were all built by Kings Edward I, II, and III, from as early as 1277. We’ve spent 2 nights here with a few walks into town and around the meadows, but will get on the way in the morning to catch our ferry. Tomorrow…Ireland
Monday morning we pulled away from “Lake District” and continued towards Holyhead, were we will pick up our ferry to Ireland on Wednesday. We were traveling on the M6 Motorway, and passed some of the “big named towns” in England, so I’m sure we missed some very interesting sites. It was one of those moments of quick decisions, “we’ll just have to pass by, what ever it is we are missing”… These were towns and cities like Blackpool, Liverpool, Berkenhead, Warrington, and Chester to name a few…sorry…
About 2, we were driving again on one of those narrow, twisting, diving, roads, when we came across a food stand along side of the road, so we quickly drove in and had a great lunch. Then back on the road, we came to one of those roads decisions and I went one way and Louise wanted the other…”Well you had better let me know a little earlier !!!”, “I did, but as always, you didn’t listen !!!”…and so on…you know how that goes, right? Well, I didn’t turn around, so we ended up going on to Caernarfon and found our next campground there. Just as we were entering the roadway to the campground, across a field, we saw a huge castle. After paying and setting up, we headed off for a walk into the village, and a look at the Caernarfon castle. As it turns out, this is the castle were Prince Charles (the current Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales), was crowned “The Prince of Wales” in1969. As we were walking through the castle, they had 2 different audio/visuals that gave us wonderful information about this castle, the coronation, and others castles around this area of Wales. Wales is known to have more castles per square mile than anywhere else on earth (over 300). These were all built by Kings Edward I, II, and III, from as early as 1277. We’ve spent 2 nights here with a few walks into town and around the meadows, but will get on the way in the morning to catch our ferry. Tomorrow…Ireland