Wales

We visited Telford on the way to Mabel’s house. Thanks to Terry W. we were told about a Victorian village where people dress in period costume. It was very cool! Who knew that green wax candles had poison in them to kill the rats and toll houses were established to collect money to help pay for roads. We exchanged English currency for Victorian currency and bought a raisin bun and lollies using pennies. Grace played a game at the amusement park and won a ball-in-a-cup thanks to the guy who let her win because she was rubbish. We wandered around the school, candle making shops, houses belonging to the villagers, stables; all very interesting.

Today we woke up to sunshine and birds at Mabel’s house. She has a bird feeder and so has many different types of birds like gold and green finches and coal and blue tits. The grey squirrel even came for a visit to get the bread Mabel leaves out for the birds.

After breakfast we headed up the hill called The Great Orme, to the cable cars for a ride. It was only 10 minutes long each way and freezing cold on the way back but was still fun.  After the cable cars Mabel took us to her favourite café for lunch. It was soo yum; we couldn’t even eat it all. After lunch we went back home and had to leave. Mum didn’t want to go but we managed to drag her out the door.

We drove to a little place in the middle of nowhere called Dufton where we would be staying the night. Dufton is in Cumbria and a really cute wee village with about thirty houses. Many of the fields had stone walls where our wire fences would be. Sheep with black faces roamed around and mum loved the whole scene. The receptionist at the youth hostel was so nice and made Ella a special meal because she didn’t like what was on the menu. Ella and I found that they had a hostel dog so while mum and dad talked to an Aussie couple that were staying at the same place we played with Harley (the dog). At about 10 we walked over the road to the local pub that was built in 1759. So it’s fairly new. After having a drink we all went to bed.