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Oystermouth (Welsh name Ystumllwynarth) – a Busy Little Town
Oystermouth is located in the district of Mumbles, Swansea, Wales, and is a small town with a population of around 4500. It sits alongside the oceanfront, though to be honest when we looked at the colour of the water at the ‘beaches’ there our first reaction was “Yuck!”. I have to say I am a…
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Swansea – Outskirts of the City
Ballas Farm Guest House Our original plan when leaving Cardiff was to stay in Swansea so we could get a feel for that well known Welsh city. However, not finding any reasonably priced accommodation I booked us into a guest house, in other words a bed and breakfast – called Ballas Farm Guesthouse, near the…
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Caerphilly, a Colossal Castle
Gilbert de Clare, who reportedly controlled the Glamorgan area of Wales in the 13th century, had the building of Caerphilly castle underway in 1268 and the majority of the construction was finished over the following three years. Caerphilly is the biggest castle in Wales and only second in size to Windsor castle in England for…
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Tongwynlais, The Lewis Arms, and Castle Coch
The small town of Tongwynlais is located around a 25 minute drive from Cardiff Bay. So what is the attraction of Tongwynlais? Well to be honest there isn’t a great deal there though it is very quaint – but having the surname Lewis which I inherited from my Welsh Dad, the town’s main pub The…
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Cardiff and Cardiff Bay, Wales, – A Must Visit for a touch of Welshness
Driving from England to Wales was quite enjoyable, as our excitement mounted sign by sign, seeing them change from English to many if not most either in Welsh and English or just Welsh. The word “araf” is still burnt into our memories, though it did take quite some time to realise exactly what it meant…
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Cadbury World – Birmingham
Before we continued on our journey out of England and onto Cardiff in Wales we paid a visit to Cadbury World in Birmingham. Having lived in Dunedin much of the last twenty years, we of course regularly saw and on two occasions visited the huge Cadbury chocolate factory and Cadbury World tourist attraction. Sadly when…
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Madame Tussauds, London – is it worthwhile to visit?
On the same day we visited the Tower of London we also visited Madame Tussauds – London. Like the London Tower tickets we also bought our Madame Tussauds tickets online a few weeks before we arrived. We purchased the skip the queue tickets for 2pm, and were glad we did when we saw the frighteningly…
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Our Visit to London Tower
Our first trip into central London was specifically to see the Tower of London and Madame Tussauds. As mentioned above we caught the train from Uxbridge to get to our destination, which was Aldgate station (No – not Aldridge, Aldgate!). From the Aldgate station it is a fairly easy and straight forward walk to the…
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The First London “Tube” Experience
Our first venture on the UK underground train system, not counting the trains used to get around Heathrow airport, was at the Uxbridge train station. Our first challenge was working out which train to get on, but as we walked around the rather outdated slightly grubby station we saw help in sight! That help was…
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The Wonderful City of Norwich
Norwich is located in the east of England, around 160kms north east of London and is situated by the river Wensum. It has a population of 144,000 within the city area while the wider area has around 214,000 people. It was once voted as being one of the best cities in the World and the…
Share the travels of two older kiwi travellers, as we explore beautiful New Zealand and the rest of the World.
Just because you are over 55 doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy what the World has to offer! Though older travellers aren’t always into bungy jumping and adventure tourism, they can still experience sights that should be shared.
