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Kevin's Trip - Day 9 - Wales

August 05, 2007 // 0 Comments  // Add yours »

It's Kevin Henri yet again.

We awoke on time for once and got on the bus and drove over to Chester, England. The Romans used to inhabit this town way back when. It has an old wall in it from the Medieval Times. We walked along the wall for a while which was pretty cool until we left the wall and walked by the ruins of a Roman Amphitheater and some Roman gardens with some of the pillars still intact. We walked around and then got back onto the bus and drove into Wales. Their signs have both English and Welsh on them. The Welsh language is the dominant language in Wales and they are extremely proud of their Celtic language. Wales has many castles in the country, a lot of them being recently constructed within the last two hundred years. We passed through Conwy (Conway in English), and saw a very old castle that was constructed from 1283 to 1287, a remarkably short time considering their methods of building back then. It was very interesting. To leave, our bus had to pass through this very narrow archway and we just barely made it through. It was a little risky.

     We went on our way and stopped at Llanfairpwllgwyngogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. It has the longest name of a town in the world. It has 59 letters and in English it 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". It's sister city is in Holland, named "Ee" and has the shortest name for a town in the world. We shopped for an hour and then headed to Holyhead to take a ferry over to Dublin. The ferry ride was three hours long but it was very luxurious in there. Lots of comfortable chairs, televisions, a movie theater, etc.

     Once we arrived in Dublin, we stopped at our hotel and then went out in our groups to have dinner. Pretty boring place to be at night unless you are a drinker. We stopped in a gift shop and then ate at Burger King (much better than all the McDonald's here), and then we came back to our hotel and went to sleep. The End.

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